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He’s baaack… but this time Christian and I are chatting about our beef story.
Join us as we walk through how we broke out of the limited mindset that told us we couldn’t do this, what scared each of us the most (you may be surprised), and if all the experts are right that you can’t be a rancher unless you’re born or married into it.
If you’ve ever had a dream that others tell you is impossible, there’s good stuff in this episode for you.
Podcast Episode Highlights
- Our background into getting into homesteading and raising cattle
- Getting over struggles and limiting beliefs and starting to think ‘outside of the box’
- Thinking about raising cattle from a financial perspective
- Starting small with homestead livestock and how that expanded over time
- How having a rancher mentor helped us out in the beginning
- A closer look at the starter costs and making a business plan
- Picking the age of your first cattle
- Why your financial mindset is so important
- Figure out your WHY for getting into raising cattle
- Traditional cattle operation vs. controlling the whole process (aka what we did instead)
- The hard part (aka NOT raising the cattle but what happens afterwards)
- Dealing with USDA facilities and licenses
- Our freezer drama…
- Learning how to SELL and SHIP our beef
- Dealing with hurdles is okay
- Our Genuine Beef Company: https://genuinebeefco.com/
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Podcast Episode Resources and Links Mentioned
If you’d like to serve some delicious, grass-raised beef–born and raised on our WY prairie–on your dinner table: https://genuinebeefco.com/
Interested in learning how to cook all of the cuts of beef? Check out my Cooking Through The Cow materials to get 40+ recipes for different beef cuts as well as tons of tips for navigating the various cuts of beef.
My (New) Old-School Blog: www.prairiephilosophy.com
Head to http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/grow to get complimentary access to my best homestead resources.
Get more in-depth homestead info, printable recipes, tutorials, and more on my blog at www.theprairiehomestead.com
Find Christian at the Stop Hiding podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/46wojgTn1Fn52iZJJPTtWO
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More Tips on Raising Beef:
- Busting Beef Myths with Diana Rodgers (podcast episode)
- How to Raise Your Own Freezer Beef (podcast episode)
- Why We Only Eat Grassfed Beef (podcast episode)
- What do Grassfed Milk & Meat REALLY Taste Like? (podcast episode)
- Genuine Beef Co. (our grass-fed and grass-finished family beef business)