"Weaning weights more often a detractor of profitability..."

Here's a short video featuring some excerpts from Burke Teichert's lecture at the Northern Plains Grassland Symposium in 2018 at Menoken Farm, where he lists some ways for profitable ranching, with many topics including the detrimental effects of being too focused on weaning weights, and the benefits of adapted cattle.

If you'd like to follow up on some of Burke Teichert's quotes from this video, you can watch his original lecture below.

Burk's Lecture is titled "Profitable Ranching, Is it Possible?  Yes, if you learn how!" posted on Menoken Farm's Youtube channel. ​

I don't care if its mom and dad and the kids, or if it's a larger ranching company with employees,  I like everybody to grab on to that vision.   -Burke Teichert

Burke covers a lot of ground here in short time.  He begins by addressing the importance of goals and a shared vision followed by listing four main areas to manage:
1.  Production
2. Economics/Finance
3. Marketing
4. People

He then expounds on three ways to improve profit:
1.  Increase turnover
2. Decrease overheads
3. Improve gross margin (Total returns minus Direct costs)

Burke then talks about his Five essentials of Ranch Management:
1.  An Integrative and holistic approach
2. Continuous improvement of the key resources – Land, Livestock, People
3. Use of good planning and decision making tools
4. War on costs
5. Emphasis on marketing