Told in the cinematic tradition of classic westerns, “COWBOYS - A Documentary Portrait,” is a feature-length film that gives viewers the opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ra

Onions, Innovation, and Chewing Gum

Mar 14th, 2019 36m 51s

This episode of RANCHCAST with LEM LEWIS, I interview third generation general manager, Shay Myers, where we discuss the innovative practices implemented by family run Froerer Farms and its Owhyee brand of onions. A third generation produce bus

Free Legal Advice for Landowners

Mar 14th, 2019 35m 46s

Many, through years of hard work and planning build up land and wealth and the last thing they need is to lose it in a preventable lawsuit. Tiffany Dowell Lashmet has served as an agricultural law specialist for Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Ser

Author Chris Nolt Knows How to Sell Your Farm or Ranch Without Paying a Fortune in Taxes

Jul 30th, 2018 38m 43s

Chris Nolt, the author of Financial Strategies for Selling a Farm or Ranch, provides an excellent overview of the issues involved in completing the successful sale of a ranch or farm, and of the tax traps that many unprepared property sellers f

Forget Westworld and Most Hollywood Cowboy Fables: This is the True Story of the Old West

Apr 7th, 2018 33m 40s

The real Old West – not the Hollywood version – was quite different than the one most of us have been taught. Even us ranchers and rural producers will be surprised by the intimate view and almost tactical sense of what it was really like in t

Entrepreneurial-Minded Rural Landowners: Texas Olive Ranch Has Spawned a Large and Growing Industry

Feb 4th, 2018 45m 53s

After living and working in Spain, where he noticed the climate and trees were similar to parts of Texas, Jim Henry wondered why no one in his native Texas was growing olives commercially. He thought Texas could be host to a thriving olive oil

New Film, Farmers for America, Aims to Celebrate and Inspire the Next Generation of Rural Producers

Oct 25th, 2017 30m 51s

Ahead of the national premiere of Farmers for America, Lem Lewis interviews filmmaker Graham Meriwether about the documentary that aims to celebrate and inspire the next generation of American farmers and ranchers. Farmers for America profiles

Some of the Finest Bourbons in the World Come from a Ranch in Tiny Hye, Texas

May 7th, 2017 28m 30s

There is so much to boast about for those of us blessed to live in Texas. Garrison Brothers’ Texas straight bourbon whiskey is like icing on the cake. Made from pure Texas-grown organic cereal grains, combined with our nutrient-rich rainwater,

RANCHCAST CONVERSATIONS: Dan Garrison, Garrison Brothers Distillery

May 6th, 2017 36s

There’s just something about Texans, especially entrepreneurs, that you won’t find in any other state. Dan Garrison, proprietor of Garrison Brothers Distillery, tells RANCHCAST with LEM LEWIS that his fellow Texans are as distinctive, proud, an

Dr. Matt Wagner Offers a Master Class in Wildlife Conservation and Range Management

Apr 4th, 2017 47m 29s

My guest on this episode, Dr. Matt Wagner, is someone who I know enjoys the outdoors as much as I do. Dr. Wagner is the definitive expert on wildlife conservation, range land management, and the Texas laws and policies governing them. I could i

Exposing Pecksniffery & Debunking Common Food Myths

Mar 18th, 2017 37m 53s

Last year, I attended The Wizard Academy’s Reputation Tool Chest workshop taught by award-winning business journalist, Dean Rotbart. Dean is the host of Monday Morning Radio, a popular business-to-business podcast that in 2016 alone attracted

What’s Old Is New Again: Disruptive Ranching and Farming

Mar 1st, 2017 27m

The Ficke Family has been ranching and running a livestock operation in Pleasant Dale, Nebraska since 1888. Today, Del Ficke and the Ficke Cattle Company are role models for successful, holistically-managed, independently owned, profitable rura

Raised a City Kid, Inventor & CEO Paul Francis Shares His Love of Ranching

Feb 21st, 2017 25m 59s

Paul Francis is best known as the inventor of a technology that allows orbiting astronauts on the International Space Station to stay fit in the weightless environment. His resistive exercise device has been used by more than 50 space traveler

Authenticity is the Secret to Richard Lynch’s Success as a Country Music Singer/Songwriter

Feb 20th, 2017 23m 58s

My guest this week is a farmer, a barn builder, a philanthropist, and a patriot. But to his legions of fans, country music artist Richard Lynch, a member of the Independent Country Music Hall of Fame, is a: chart-topping knee-stomping guitar-

Prominent Ranch Economist Forecasts Muted Texas Rural Land Price Increases in 2017

Jan 23rd, 2017 31m 31s

Ranch land prices should continue to rise in 2017, although not as rapidly as they did in the robust years of 2014 and 2015. That is the assessment of one of the nation’s leading ranch economists, Dr. Charles E. Gilliland, who recently shared

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