How to Not go Broke Ranching is the irreverent and sometimes
humorous effort of a multi generation rancher to help people keep
from making all of the mistakes that he made in fifty + years of
ranching. It is drawn from real life though some names are changed
or not given to protect the guilty. The vast majority of ranches in
the United States, whether commercial or life style, are neither
profitable nor sustainable; the author explains why this is so and
what must be done to improve the situation. The changes in
philosophy and in management practices required to do this are
spelled out in some detail by a man who used them to turn an almost
bankrupt ranch into a consistently profitable and stable operation.
The book is not a how-to cookbook but rather is an attempt to get
people to think of ranching, and agriculture in general, as the
biological endeavors, run on sunshine and rainfall that they once
were and should be again, rather than the industrial enterprises
that are common today. The methods described have been proven
effective by people all over the world and their results can be
duplicated by anyone who is willing to think through the situation
and is not afraid to be different. As the authors' father once told
him, "You have two kinds of neighbors, half of them think you are
crazy and the other half knows you are crazy." The management
described is not yet universally accepted but it works from all
standpoints: it is financially sound, ecologically sound and it is
a good way to live and raise a family. Both the new, or would be,
rancher just starting out and the established rancher will find
information and advice in this book that can be used to make their
operation more profitable, less dependent on purchased inputs and
markets and a whole lot more fun.
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