Adaptive Grazing on the Bruski Ranch

Field Work

Documentary, Society & Culture

5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After attending college in Bismarck, North Dakota, Ryan Bruski returned to his family’s ranch in Ekalaka, Montana, with big ideas. He wanted to graze cows a new way. Instead of letting cattle roam for weeks at a time, Ryan decided to move them more frequently in a regenerative agriculture practice known as “adaptive grazing.” Plus: our first live listener question!

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, Mitchell here. Before we get started, we want to say a big thank you to the Walton Family Foundation for their support this season.
0:07.2	Hey, Mitchell, are you ready for some ranch talk?
0:10.0	Tara, you know, it's been great getting you on the show and bringing all these new ideas and stuff, but this is a farm show, not a ranch show.
0:17.2	Not today. Today it's a ranch show.
0:19.8	But Tara, the name of the show is field work about
0:22.3	like farms and fields and stuff, not about like, it's not a chewing cud wandering around on the
0:26.7	prairie for no good reason show. Mitchell, you really have to broaden your horizons.
0:35.5	Well, everyone, welcome to field work. I'm Mitchell Hora, and I'm a farmer from Iowa.
0:40.0	I'm Tara Vanerdeson. I'm a dairy farmer in New Mexico.
0:43.9	And today on the show, I guess we're going to mix things up. We're going to talk about ranching.
0:47.5	I don't know a whole lot about ranching, but we're going to find out here today. Tara, what are we going to be talking about here? Yeah, so our guest is Ryan Brewski.
0:55.5	He's a rancher from Eastern Montana.
0:57.7	He and his father, Joe Bruske, have cows, goats, pigs, and hens at their place.
1:02.8	Ryan, welcome to the show.
1:04.6	Thanks for having me.
1:06.0	Looking forward to it.
1:07.5	Ryan, so let's get started by sharing a little bit about your ranch.
1:11.0	Could you share where you're located, you know, how many acres?
1:13.9	What do you have going on there?
1:15.6	You bet.
1:16.6	We're in southeastern Montana down in Icalacca town of about 300 and that's a county seat.
1:23.5	And it's a nice little community.
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