Books/Resources

Books and resources for the ranching industry. Your input would be greatly appreciated. All the best.

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Recommended Reading

• Bud Williams Stockmanship and Livestock Marketing
• Becoming Extraordinary & Truly Successful.
• Getting Everything You Ever Wanted

Marketing

• Olsen Ranch Facebook Page
• A Slantwise Guide To Prosperity: A Never Ending Trail That Improves With Time

Great Facebook Groups

• Working Cows Mob
• The Cattle Exchange
• Stockmanship and Ranch Roping
• Ranch Guru – Cattle & Livestock
• The Fence Post: Ag News

Advocacy

• Faith Family and Beef
• Talk Triggers
• Beef – It’s What’s for Dinner

Grazing

• Paddock Shift – Alan Nation
• Pasture Profits with Stocker Cattle – Alan Nation
• Healthy Land, Happy Families, Profitable Businesses – Dave Pratt
• Management-intensive Grazing – Jim Gerrish
• Graze Smarter not Harder – YouTube Channel

Business

• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

• Discovering the Future: The Business of Paradigms by Joel Arthur Barker

• Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

• Healthy Land, Happy Families, Profitable Businesses – Dave Pratt
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
• The 3 Secrets to Ranching for Profit

Stockmanship

• Steve Cote – Manual for Stockmanship

• Stockmanship: A Powerful Tool for Grazing Lands Management by Steve Cote

• Healthy Land, Happy Families, Profitable Businesses – Dave Pratt
• Manual for Stockmanship on Grandin.com

Management

• Tailwind Both Ways: A Cowman’s Chronicle
• The Lasater philosophy of cattle raising

• Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making by Allan Savory & Jodi Butterfield

• Holistic Management Handbook- Healthy Land, Healthy Profits (07) by Butterfield, Jody – Bingham, Sam – Savory, Allan [Paperback (2006)]

• Stubble Over the Soil: The Vital Role of Plant Residue in Soil Management to Improve Soil Quality by Carlos Crovetto Lamarca

• Knowledge Rich Ranching by Allan Nation

• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

• The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

• How to Make $100,000 Farming 25 Acres by Booker T. Whatley

• Financial Peace Revisited: Get Out of Debt and Stay Out by Dave Ramsey

• Healthy Land, Happy Families, Profitable Businesses – Dave Pratt
• Kicking the Hay Habit – Jim Gerrish
• Management-intensive Grazing – Jim Gerrish
• Manage Cattle and Veld – Johann Zietzman
• No Risk Ranching – Greg Judy
• Comeback Farms – Greg Judy
• Holistic Management, Third Edition: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment – Alan Savory
• Grass Productivity: An Introduction to Rotational Grazing (Living With the Land Book 10) – Andre Voisin
• Moving ‘Em : A Guide to Low Stress Animal Handling – Burt Smith
• Grass-Fed Cattle: How to Produce and Market Natural Beef – Julius Ruechel
• Thoughts and Advice from an Old Cattleman – Gordon Hazard D.V.M. (Out of Print)
• Time To Change: Grazing – Genetics – Management – Chip Hines
• How Did We Get it So Wrong: The Reality of Ignoring Nature – Chip Hines
• A Slantwise Guide To Prosperity: A Never Ending Trail That Improves With Time Try it! – Chip Hines

DVDs

• The Three Secrets for Increasing Profit – Dave Pratt
• Stockmanship 101(DVD) – Bob Kinford

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