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Completed

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October 15, 2026 at 08:17 AM

Completed At

October 15, 2026 at 08:17 AM

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less than a minute

Headline

Farm Journal Podcast Launch: I'm a Drover

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  "transcript": "Well, Drovers is tackling this problem in its very first podcast episode. The podcast is titled \"I'm a Drover.\" Editorial lead Angie Stump Denton talks to ag economist Josh Maples about the challenges ahead with rebuilding the herd. He says the first thing to figure out is heifers. Do you want to retain your own or buy a bred heifer? If we look at prices right now and and the way this plays out, there's not a clear signal as to which one is better. And so a lot of that really comes down to what are you looking for in a heifer? Because if you retain your own, one of the key factors here, um, and there's a lot of reasons you might want to retain your own. Some of us you want to keep a closed herd, maybe you've got some good genetics that you just really want to continue with that you're trying to build out over time. There's plenty of reasons we could talk about. But when you retain your own, um, you know, you're you're giving up a calf essentially compared to going and buying a bred heifer. If you buy a bred heifer, uh, right now, you can have a calf from that bred heifer in three to six months. Now, in the second half of this brand new podcast, Angie brought in three industry leaders. One is Jaclyn Wilson. She is a fifth-generation commercial cow-calf rancher who's located in the Nebraska Sandhills. She sees weather as the biggest challenge to rebuilding the herd there. when you have about over 800,000 acres burning in wildfire, especially through really, really significant cow-calf country. And then along with that, there's been a lot of the state that had been in that D3, D4 drought situation. But Mother Nature has dealt us all we can handle this year. And and then there's already rumors about going into El Niño, um, and a and extremely wet winter where we're already really struggling with high feed costs and and trucking costs to get that feed into these areas that have been drought and fire-stricken. And so I, you know, we on our ranch, we specifically always always think about rebuilding and and continuing to increase our cow herd size and whatnot. But, um, there's a lot of producers I know that that are almost over it right now and over Mother Nature. And I think that's going to become the biggest component in terms of seeing what these numbers are going to do in the future for this part of the state.",
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