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Cattle Conversations

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Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 299

Cattle Conversations is the podcast for beef cattle producers and ranchers to explore new ideas and hear stories that will help them improve their current operations and lifestyles. Shaye Wanner connects listeners with other cattle producers and beef industry experts to uncover which management practices, industry trends, current events and inspiring stories are impacting today’s beef cattle industry.

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Increase Cattle Exposure on Sale Day with AtTheYards

Season 9 · Episode 39

Monday, September 28, 2026 • Duration 22:24

This week, Shaye welcomes back Jacob Sebade, founder of AtTheYards and part of a 6,000-head family feedyard in Emerson, Nebraska, and Jim Akers, COO of the Bluegrass Livestock Marketing Network in Kentucky, about maximizing cattle exposure through better pre-sale information. They explain how the AtTheYards app helps sale barns collect standardized consignment details, videos, documents, and health/genetic info and publish upcoming lots so buyers can find cattle, filter by criteria, contact the right barn representative, and connect with order buyers.

Jim uses the app across seven barns to enter cattle in the field via smartphones, generate clean standardized sale sheets, and notify buyers earlier, including Sunday arrivals. The app offers buyer accounts, watchlists, and email alerts. They discuss value-driving questions such as weaning length (often 60+ days), open heifer guarantees, specific vaccine protocols, implants, and nutrition.

This conversation shows that AtTheYards isn’t just for marketing feeder cattle. It also serves seedstock producers and the Cattleman’s Corner feature provides easy to analyze graphs about market prices, packer leverage and the market wire.

This new business model is exciting for sectors of the beef industry. It is available today at app.AtTheYards.com or in the App Store and Google Play.

Catch more conversations like this one and learn more at https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/

00:14 Meet Jacob And Jim
01:30 Why Exposure Matters
02:37 Standardizing Cattle Info
05:44 How AtTheYard Works
08:37 Dashboard And Rollout
10:11 Deadlines And Intake
11:36 Buyer Features And Alerts
13:13 Download And Data Quality
15:05 What Buyers Value Most

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Choosing to Ranch Differently: Holistic Grazing and Cattle Management

Season 9 · Episode 38

Monday, September 21, 2026 • Duration 25:00

This week, Shaye Wanner interviews Shane Maddock of Mattock Ranches about holistic/regenerative management, shaped by his father’s practices since 1992. Shane describes their North Dakota commercial cow-calf operation with backgrounding, yearlings, heifer development, and some row crops and small grains near Maddock. He explains rebuilding degraded soils by reducing reliance on outside inputs through frequent moves, adequate rest and full grass recovery, and adaptive grazing based on pasture conditions.

Shane shares unconventional infrastructure like permanent fencing and water tanks placed in the middle of cropland to enable winter grazing, bale grazing, and flexible feeding. After initially seeding diverse cover crops, he shifted to perennials and now plans a sod-based crop rotation with renewed cover cropping. He is composting feedlot manure and experimenting with compost tea to boost soil biology. Key challenges include labor, infrastructure setup, and profitability, and he urges ranchers to question tradition and find mentors.

Learn more about Performance Livestock Analytics here: https://bit.ly/47PxY3W

Learn more about Ambrook here: ambrook.com/casualcattle

Learn more about Elanco here: https://farmanimal.elanco.com/us/beef

Learn more about Corteva here: RangeAndPasture.com/CattleConversations

00:47 Meet Shane Maddock

01:22 Why Regenerative Matters

02:28 Operation Overview

04:10 Growing Up Holistic

05:21 Grazing Principles Basics

06:25 Cover Crops to Perennials

Warning: Take These Cybersecurity Precautions This Fall

Season 9 · Episode 37

Monday, September 14, 2026 • Duration 19:26

This week, Shaye welcomes back Chris Sherman, CEO of Tech Support Farm, to discuss fall cybersecurity and fraud threats facing farms and ranches. Sherman highlights RFID tag swapping in cattle sales, emphasizing vigilance and real-time verification to prevent animals being sold at incorrect values.

He also warns that busy seasons increase bank fraud and vendor-payment scams, advising producers to verify payment changes and urgent requests by phone, watch for spoofed emails, and use simple email folder rules to flag fake invoices. If a bad link is clicked or money is sent, he recommends contacting a cybersecurity provider, reporting significant losses via the FBI’s IC3, and carrying cyber insurance.

He notes commercial accounts often have only 24 hours to dispute fraudulent transactions and suggests tools like Positive Pay, along with MFA/2FA, strong passwords, and paid domain email for better protection.

You can learn more about what Chris offers at https://techsupport.farm/.

Learn more about Performance Livestock Analytics here: https://bit.ly/47PxY3W

Learn more about Ambrook here: ambrook.com/casualcattle

Learn more about Elanco here: https://farmanimal.elanco.com/us/beef

Learn more about Corteva here: RangeAndPasture.com/CattleConversations

00:00 Risk Meets Cybersecurity

01:14 Meet Chris Sherman

02:37 Fall Threats Overview

04:03 RFID Tag Swapping

06:00 Busy Season Bank Fraud

08:22 If You Clicked Or Paid

12:27 Ponzi Schemes Due Diligence

14:15 Harvest Season Digital Hygiene

Fall Weed Control Strategies for Grazing and Hay Acres

Season 9 · Episode 36

Monday, September 7, 2026 • Duration 23:02

Today on the Casual Cattle Conversations podcast, Shaye interviews Corteva pasture specialist, Rachel Walker, about prioritizing fall weed control to maximize usable forage and extend grazing days. Walker explains that winter-emerging weeds like plantain, thistles, and poison hemlock should be treated in fall when young, using options such as DuraCor and UltiGraze.

She describes DuraCor’s two-actives approach and notes grazing is allowed, with hay sales restrictions depending on state. They discuss why weed control matters in drought and for preventing livestock losses to toxic plants, and how improved control can reduce hay feeding and enable adding diverse grasses and clover. Walker recommends frequent soil testing and taking advantage of free forage testing, and adds fall brush control timing guidance.

Learn more about Corteva solutions here: RangeAndPasture.com/CattleConversations

Catch more conversations like this one and learn more at https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/

00:00 Fall Weed Control Urgency

01:10 Meet Rachel Walker

02:43 Drought and Hay Outlook

04:07 Grazing Longer Into Winter

06:19 Targeting Winter Weeds

10:21 Why Weed Control Matters

14:09 UltiGraze and Soil Testing

16:39 Forage Testing and Nutrition

18:23 Clover Integration With NovaGraze

20:16 Brush Control Timing

Fall Calving and Herd Health

Season 9 · Episode 35

Friday, September 4, 2026 • Duration 45:37

This week, Shaye interviews Dr. Robin Faulkner, a veterinarian with decades of beef industry experience, about fall calving systems and herd health. Faulkner outlines why fall calving can add value by spreading calf supply to better match year-round packing capacity and by producing more mature fall-born bulls, while noting location-specific challenges. He emphasizes aligning calving with weather “thermal neutral” windows to reduce stress, disease risk, and negative fetal programming, and highlights nutrition as the key constraint for rebreeding when forage quality declines into winter. He advocates proactive, season-ahead management: forage testing, equipment readiness, calving kits, and facility preparation. On vaccines, he stresses tailoring protocols to handling and marketing constraints, using vaccination and weaning to improve marketability, and timing products to their effective protection windows, including pre-calving scour vaccines for colostrum immunity. He discusses fall fly pressure and timing fly control to vulnerability periods, and urges responsible treatment and stewardship of insecticides, dewormers, and antibiotics to preserve efficacy. Learn more at https://farmanimal.elanco.com/us/beef Learn more about Noble here: https://bit.ly/3DD7uG0 Learn more about Vence here: https://bit.ly/4kfWrCG Catch more conversations like this one and learn more at https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/ 00:00 Fall Calving Kickoff 01:18 Meet Dr. Faulkner 03:15 Why Calve in Fall 06:06 Weather Stress Window 09:50 Nutrition and Rebreeding 12:44 Pre Calving Prep 17:35 Vaccines for Value 23:20 Vaccine Timing Matters 29:42 Fly Control Strategy 32:46 Treatment Stewardship 42:45 Observe and Adapt

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BRD Prevention and Treatement for Ranchers and Feeders

Season 9 · Episode 34

Monday, August 24, 2026 • Duration 28:51

Today on the Casual Cattle Conversations podcast, Shaye talks with veterinarian Dr. Paige Schmidt-Rios about bovine respiratory disease (BRD), its impact across the cattle supply chain, and key prevention strategies for ranchers. Dr. Paige explains BRD (also called pneumonia or shipping fever) as a complex syndrome involving multiple viruses and bacteria, often triggered when stress and environment compromise immunity; she lists common pathogens and notes BRD is a major cause of post-weaning illness.

They discuss treatment limits, including supportive care for viral cases and five antibiotic classes for bacterial pneumonia, highlighting mycoplasma’s lack of a cell wall and fluoroquinolone restrictions, plus the role and timing of diagnostics and the need for a VCPR. Prevention focuses on colostrum within 12 hours, clean/dry calving environments, proper vaccine handling, and timely boosters, including considerations around preconditioning versus vaccinating at weaning.

Learn more about Noble here: https://bit.ly/3DD7uG0

Learn more about Vence here: https://bit.ly/4kfWrCG

Learn more abou Elanco here: https://farmanimal.elanco.com/us/beef

Catch more conversations like this one and learn more at https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/

01:16 4-H Memories 03:09 What BRD Really Is 06:45 Mycoplasma Spotlight 08:01 Treatment Options 11:09 Diagnostics And Timing 12:59 Vet Partnership And Management 16:29 Prevention Starts At Birth 20:00 Vaccines And Boosters 22:11 Weaning And Preconditioning 24:32 Prevention Recap And Supply Chain

Artificial Intelligence: Is It Benefitting Ranchers?

Season 9 · Episode 33

Monday, August 17, 2026 • Duration 21:03

This week, Shaye Wanner interviews Haley Potter from the Ambrook team about how artificial intelligence can support ranch profitability and long-term continuity when used responsibly. Potter, who has North Dakota ranching roots and splits time between ranches in Dell and Alder, Montana, says AI fits best for producers who need help with information gathering and admin tasks while keeping humans in control of decisions and fact-checking outputs.

She shares examples such as using Claude to summarize bull sale catalogs based on EPD parameters, building grazing plans, and analyzing financials for expansion scenarios, plus customer examples like an AI-assisted ordering/lead tool for direct-to-consumer beef and a “ranch command center” dashboard. Potter explains Ambrook’s AI-assisted bookkeeping features (tagging, invoice matching, receipt scanning) and emphasizes data quality, transparency, and privacy, including choosing trusted services and requiring approval for data use.

See what Ambrook can do for your operation here: ambrook.com/casualcattle

Learn more about Noble here: https://bit.ly/3DD7uG0

Learn more about Vence here: https://bit.ly/4kfWrCG

00:00 AI and Ranching Today
00:11 Meet Haley Potter
01:30 AI Not Insemination
01:56 Can AI Help Ranchers
02:51 Haley Ranching Roots
04:10 Responsible AI Basics
05:45 Real Ranch AI Examples
09:56 What Ambrook Does
10:39 AI Features in Ambrook
12:54 Time Savings and Better Data
15:25 Data Privacy and Trust

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Making Virtual Fence Cost Effective for Ranchers

Season 9 · Episode 32

Monday, August 10, 2026 • Duration 30:44

This week on the Casual Cattle Conversations Podcast, Shaye interviews Jay and Cheyenne Smith, cattle producers on Idaho’s eastern edge near the Montana border, about adopting Vence virtual fencing and coordinating with neighboring permittees to make it cost-effective. After the 2022 Moose Fire and grazing restrictions, they partnered with the University of Idaho and worked with BLM and the Forest Service to implement virtual fencing on rugged public-land range; five permittees now use shared base stations while owning separate collars. They discuss early hesitations about data being used against producers, onboarding lessons about placing fences to match natural cattle trails, and management gains including fewer emergency rides, more schedulable work, improved utilization control, and more efficient gathers. Virtual fencing enabled their shift from winter to fall calving by keeping cattle positioned to come home, reducing labor needs, and providing movement data useful for investigating events like wolf predation or other disturbances. Learn more about Vence here: https://bit.ly/4kfWrCG Catch more conversations like this one and learn more at https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/ 00:00 Virtual Fence Neighbors 01:08 Meet the Smiths 01:34 Ranch and Grazing Setup 04:05 Fire Sparks Adoption 07:02 Getting Neighbors Onboard 09:32 Workload and Riding Changes 11:43 Sharing Towers and Data 14:14 Training and Fence Design 18:01 Better Utilization and Plans 19:15 Fall Calving Made Possible 22:33 Costs and Quality of Life 25:23 Wolves and Movement Clues 27:35 Next Generation Buy In

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Extended Grazing Seasons Do's and Dont's

Season 9 · Episode 31

Monday, August 3, 2026 • Duration 19:56

This week, Shaye sits down with Chance, a ranch manager at the Noble Research Institute, about extending grazing seasons to cut winter feeding and hay costs. Chance describes Noble’s 5,100-acre native-grass operation running about 200 cows, using intensive rotational grazing (moving daily to every few days) and aiming to remove only the top third to half of forage during the growing season so enough standing grass remains for winter.

He stresses producers often plan too late, and recommends measuring pasture forage monthly to guide stocking decisions, destocking, or hay purchasing. Winter management includes protein supplementation (cubes/cake) for four to five months and occasional hay during heavy snow. They discuss other options such as cover crops (noting weather risk), rye winter pasture, crop residue grazing, and bale grazing/unrolling or pre-unwrapped bales to improve soil and return nutrients.

Learn more about resources from the Noble Research Institute here: http://noble.org/find-a-course

Catch more conversations like this one and learn more at https://www.casualcattleconversations.com

00:00 Cutting Input Costs 00:10 Meet Shay and Chance 01:31 Why Extend Grazing 02:05 Noble Ranch System 02:37 Summer Grazing Plan 04:51 Rotation and Calving Setup 06:42 When to Move Cattle 08:43 Stocking and Weather Limits 10:23 Cover Crops and Rye 12:14 Bale Grazing Methods 14:53 Put Nutrients Back

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Making Ranches Investible for Your Family

Season 9 · Episode 30

Monday, July 27, 2026 • Duration 15:29

This week, Shaye Wanner welcomes Chris Rawley of Harvest Returns to discuss what makes ranches “investable” and why it matters for operators seeking outside investors or bank financing to expand herds, land, or infrastructure. Raleigh explains Harvest Returns’ model of pooling investor capital and investing as a single partner via loans, notes, or equity, and says investable operations have a solid plan, clear financial statements, defined marketing/sales strategy, and a realistic path to investor returns.

He outlines that key first steps include transparency and documentation across complex land and entity structures, accurate balance sheets reflecting assets and debts, and building a team for missing functions like finance, bookkeeping, accounting, and sales. Common mistakes include poor herd tracking/accountability (amid “phantom cattle” scams) and attempting to raise public capital without proper SEC-compliant legal help. Raleigh emphasizes getting herd and financial numbers in order, including hiring professionals.

Catch more conversations like this one and learn more at https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/

00:00 Is Your Ranch Investible 01:24 Meet Chris Rawley 01:33 Why Investability Matters 02:38 What Harvest Returns Does 04:56 Investible Ranch Checklist 07:50 First Steps to Improve 09:30 Building the Right Team 11:09 Common Mistakes to Avoid 13:20 Raising Capital Legally

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