Real Wealth Ranching

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Hello, I'm Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where we focus on helping ranchers and farmers to improve their land the fastest while maximizing their profitability.

Recently, I have been receiving many questions regarding smaller scale operations and Total Grazing.

In fact, some of my Total Grazing students run smaller scale operations so I wanted to create this episode to clarify a few doubts that you may have if you have a small operation and are very interested in Total Grazing.

You see, it is not only about the benefits that you will have in productivity but the importance of improving your land.

We need to realize that soil and individual plants, humus creation and future productivity reacts to management exactly the same on large as on small farms. The principles are exactly the same and as a very large cattle producer told me: anything can be scaled up or down with success. All we need to remember is to apply the...

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Hi, I'm Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching, and today I want to show you the steps to revitalize a degraded farm or ranch. This is transcendental because the productivity, health, and profitability of your farm can be greatly increased if we follow nature, the potential is huge!. I consider a farm as a living organism where the owner is the head. So we must strive to revitalize the entire farm, but it can be done gradually.

Today I am going to talk to you about what we must do to stop degrading our land and revitalize it, we all know that the amount of humus in our soils has been declining over time and it is the main cause of lower productivity which has led us to lower stocking rate and lower performance of our animals.

We must first analyze what has caused the level of humus, the percentage of desirable species, and the productivity of our pastures to drop. It is also important to know how humus is created as we have...

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Hello, I am Jaime Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and today I am going to tell you my experiences with feeding your livestock mainly from the grasses and forages you grow on your own farm or ranch. This is essential to make you self-sufficient in these uncertain times, work less, insulate your property from high prices of inputs and improve your soil faster.

Welcome back to another episode of Fat Cows, Fat Wallet podcasts. I hope you are well and enjoying the day, today I am going to tell you about how to feed your livestock from grasses and forages produced on your own farm as much as possible.

When we are mostly self-sufficient and are able to do without expensive purchased inputs we become independent of high-priced inputs that are going up every day. At least that is how it feels!

I had to learn this very early in my ranching career and it is the main reason I do not use any chemicals or synthetic fertilizers as they...

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Hello, I am Jaime Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and today I am going to tell you my experiences with adapted genetics and how it has helped increase my profitability and improve my soil faster.

Welcome back to another episode of Fat Cows, Fat Wallet podcasts. I hope you are well and enjoying the day, today I am going to tell you the 5 most important points or advantages of having adapted genetics on your farm.

When we spend time with our cattle, we realize that some are better adapted than others. It may be adaptation to heat or cold, it may be nutritional adaptation where they remain in better body condition, on poor pasture than the rest of the herd.

It may also be that some or most individuals do not require de-wormers or insecticides for internal and external parasites.

We must be observers and identify these animals. I have been using adapted genetics with correct selection guidelines for more than 15 years and the...

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Hello, I'm Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and today I'm going to teach you my experiences in direct planting, by seed, of forage trees directly in your paddocks. By doing this, the cost of planting beneficial trees in your fields is reduced by up to 30 times!

Welcome back to another episode of Fat Cows, Fat Wallet podcasts. I hope you are well and enjoying the day, today I want to talk about the direct planting of fodder trees in your paddock or field.

We all know the great advantages of having enough shade for our cattle and for ourselves. What many have not taken advantage of on their farms is having enough forage trees that can be coppiced in the difficult season to feed their cattle with excellent quality forage.

I have learned this in the last 25 years since before this, I used fodder trees but for direct grazing. If you are one of my Total Grazing students, you know that forage trees grow much slower than...

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Hi, I'm Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and today I'm going to give you 5 tips to greatly lower your fertilization costs.

Welcome back to another episode of Fat cows, Fat Wallet podcast. I hope you are well and enjoying your day. Today I want to talk to you about how to reduce and eventually eliminate the need to use synthetic fertilizers by using instead foliar fertilizers that cost a fraction of the fertilizer applied to the soil and do not harm soil life. This is very important because if we continue to apply synthetic fertilizers to the soil, the plant is not fed naturally and the soil micro-organisms around the roots become lazy so to speak and stop doing their job of making nutrients available! Nutrients not available from the soil!

The green revolution and cheap fossil fuel made producers forget about traditional methods of production with low external inputs. The goal, step from maximum profitability to...

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Hi, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching, where our goal is to help you maximize your profitability while improving your land as quickly as possible.

Welcome back to another episode of the Fat Cows, Fat Wallet Podcast. I hope you are having a great week. And today we are going to talk about something that is transcendental, like reducing the risk of not having enough grass thanks to using total grazing.

Today I am going to talk to you about what we must do to always have enough grass for our cattle, the importance of using deferred forage in the area, the type of grazing that we must use to avoid overgrazing. This is extremely important to achieve profitability and harmony in our lives. Fortunately, it is also what the land-pasture-cattle complex needs to regenerate the environment for greater productivity.

Much has been said that it is better to harvest only a third or sometimes half of the grass on offer. That comes...

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you maximize your profitability while you improve your land the fastest.

Welcome back to another episode of Fat Cows, Fat Wallet Podcast. I hope you are having a great week. And today we are going to talk about something that is transcendental, improving your land at a low cost with management.

We have learned some important things in this podcast, for example, soil humus is the real fertility of your soils, soil humus was much higher a long time ago which means we are mining the humus of our soils and we are not putting back or creating more of it.

Please invite or share this podcast with others you think could benefit from it as I want to help as many people as possible to regenerate their land to achieve good for all.

Trees are essential for the best health of soil and ecosystems; they help regenerate the land and landscape much faster than other low-cost methods. 

My students of Total grazing know...

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you maximize your profitability while you improve your land the fastest.

Welcome back to another episode of Fat Cows, Fat Wallet Podcast. I hope you are having a great week. And today we are going to talk about something that is transcendental, improving your land at a low cost with management.

Today I am going to talk about how to control horn flies with dung beetles in 5 steps, and the importance of not using insecticides on our land or on our livestock. This is essential as there are always unintended consequences when we try to stop a problem (horn fly) with insecticides.

Research has proven that without dung beetles there is a 30% reduction in forage production due to the dung not being buried and its nutrients volatilizing to the air. This means you can increase your pasture productivity and stocking rate just by having a healthy dung beetle population. What does this mean to your bottom line? A huge...

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and today we will discuss ways to save money without hurting our profits.

Why is it so important to differentiate between savings that do not hurt your profits and so-called savings that hurt your profits? Have you heard of penny wise and dollar foolish? It means that one can get so enthusiastic about saving that you start losing potential profits!

I have a lot of experience with this as I started my own medium sized business, a cheese and yogurt factory, to be able to buy my first farm. Learning how to calculate if a dollar can give you much more, when wisely invested, than if kept in your pocket can be the difference between profits and losses.

Sometimes this will be easy and plain to see, but other times not so easy. Today we are going through the 5 steps to make decisions, so you are certain it is profitable to spend a dollar on something or if it's better to keep it in your pocket.

Please remember that grazing livestock...