Advancing the Legacy

We would love to hear from you! In this conversation, Cody Wright, a professor of animal science at South Dakota State University, shares his journey from growing up in South Dakota to becoming an educator. He discusses the diverse agricultural landscape of South Dakota, the demographics of his students, and the importance of succession planning in farming families. Cody emphasizes the need for co...

We would love to hear from you! I realize I’m breaking the rules  by interviewing Jim Smith phd,—he’s not a beef producer—but I couldn’t imagine leaving him out. Jim is a swine nutritionist and a longtime friend of Terry’s. They met in grad school at Kansas State, and as Jim likes to say, their paths never should have crossed. That friendship lasted a lifetime. Jim stood up with Terry at our weddi...

We would love to hear from you! Today, we’re talking with Kenny and Jody Rogers of Wagon Wheel Ranch in Yuma, Colorado. They run a successful Angus Seedstock operation and both have served in numerous leadership roles across the beef industry. They recently won the Leopold Conservation Award, and together, they’re pushing the envelope on conservation. Kenny was on the Colorado Cattlemen's boa...

We would love to hear from you! REPEAT Janie VanWinkle is a fourth-generation rancher from south of Grand Junction, Colorado. She and her husband, Howard, own and operate VanWinkle Ranch, a Charolais cow-calf operation that runs about 600 head. Together, they’ve spent decades building their ranching business, starting in the early 1980s with just a small herd and growing steadily over time. The Va...

We would love to hear from you! A Westcliffe CO native with deep roots, Randy Rusk operates a high-altitude cow/calf operation at 8,000 feet. 12 years after leaving home and working in the livestock industry across the country, Randy and his wife Claricy—whose family has been in Westcliffe since 1860—returned home to build their own legacy. From starting a local feed store to taking over the famil...

We would love to hear from you! This is a repeat episode!  Sit back and enjoy! Make sure to leave us a review! 

We would love to hear from you! Sonny Barthold’s life in livestock buying started at just 14 years old. With 45 years of experience buying cattle across the region, he now brings that veteran eye to Farmer’s Commission Company. Based in Yukon, Oklahoma, the cattle business is a family to Sonny. In addition to his bovine family, Sonny and his wife, Fern, manage a life built on legacy. He talks of h...

We would love to hear from you! Located six miles west of the High land values of Steamboat Springs, co, Mike Hogue represents the grit required to preserve a family legacy. As the only one of four siblings committed to the bear river ranch, Mike recently navigated a grueling legal battle after a brother took him to court to dissolve their parents’ original partnership agreement. The dispute was f...

We would love to hear from you! RJ Jolly: Public Service and Family Legacy A lifelong resident of Kit Carson, RJ Jolly is a 4th-generation cattleman. Alongside his brother, Tony, RJ manages a cow/calf operation and farms dryland acres in the 1000s. Beyond his leadership as a Cheyenne County Commissioner and representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association, RJ’s true masterwork is his family...

We would love to hear from you! Joining us from the Durango Colorado area, please welcome Tom Compton. He is a La Plata County rancher whose life has bridged the gap between the classroom and the open range. After teaching biology in Texas, Tom and his wife Penny were invited to return home to help run the family ranch and teach biology at Fort Lewis College. Today, his daughter Leann carries on t...

We would love to hear from you! It is a privilege to introduce a pillar of Sterling and a genuine friend, Gene Manuello. A Past President of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association, Gene leads Manuello’s Inc., where he famously raises 'corn, hay, and T-bones.' Beyond the ranch, he is a man of immense character; when my husband Terry passed, Gene’s guidance was so selfless his significant ot...

We would love to hear from you! I’m honored to introduce Tom Harrington, manager of Sue Anschutz-Rodgers’ Crystal River Ranch in Carbondale. With a career spanning Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, and Colorado, Tom knows exactly what it takes to run a top-tier operation. As Immediate Past President of the Colorado Cattlemen’s, Tom stepped up right when we needed him most—serving as the leading voice for...

We would love to hear from you! Legacy of the Barby Bridge Bill Barby has spent his life working the rugged country along the Cimarron River on the Kansas/Oklahoma border. When it came time to retire, he didn't just walk away—he spent five years meticulously building a bridge to hand-off his legacy to a family he trusts with his life. It’s a story of creative solutions and deep-seated trust....

We would love to hear from you! Devin Murnin, a longtime supporter of the livestock industry. Devin grew up near Miles City, Montana on a leased ranch with his family. He has built a career in the industry through roles at CCA working with Terry. The Western Livestock Journal. And Today, he serves as a Region Executive Officer for the Livestock Marketing Association, covering 11 states.  Devin als...

We would love to hear from you! Frank Daley grew up on his family’s dairy farm in Madison, Wisconsin. The dairy was rooted in his family since 1851. After beginning college, he found opportunities that led him into construction, a path that eventually brought him to Colorado. There he built homes, built a life with his wife Sheila, and established Single Tree Ranch in Newcastle, where they bought...

We would love to hear from you! Today, we’re joined by Carol Ann Flock, owner of Flock Ranch, a commercial cow-calf producer deeply committed to land stewardship. After losing her husband, Phillip, four years ago, Carol Ann took the reins, continuing the operation with the support of her community, including Paul Clark. Paul has also been on the show.  Scroll back and take a listen. She’s passiona...

We would love to hear from you! David Kraft, a retired Rangeland Specialist, reflects on maintaining the land and how it is the only way to pass agriculture from one generation to the next. David shares how his family came to Kansas and how his own operation shifted from the cows and some yearlings to contract grazing steers in the summer. This change he jokes was his way of no longer having to be...

We would love to hear from you! Today we’re joined by Terry’s uncle, Paul Clark — though in many ways, he was more like a cool older brother. They’re only about a decade apart, and Terry looked up to Paul and admired him in many ways. Paul grew up as the youngest of nine children, learning resilience early. Over the years, he’s done many kinds of work — trucking, welding, feed rationing, and custo...

We would love to hear from you! We are replaying a past episode this week! Ross T. Hendrickson shares his journey from a political career to managing the Hendrickson Cattle Company, emphasizing the importance of family legacy, community involvement, and the challenges faced in the cattle industry. He discusses the role of older generations in passing down knowledge, the significance of conservatio...

We would love to hear from you! I’m joined by Paul Bernklau, a 91-year-old cattle buyer who spent decades traveling in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, consigning cattle and building relationships along the way. Paul grew up on a ranch near Rifle, Colorado, but when he was 19, his father became ill, and the family had to sell the ranch. Paul went on to work as a ranchhand before finding his life’s wor...

We would love to hear from you! Robert and Shari Kurtz: Family Beyond the Fences In this episode, we sit down with Robert and Shari Kurtz, lifelong farmers from east-central Kansas, to talk about what it means to steward both land and legacy. Shari, the only sibling of Terry — whose memory and impact inspired the podcast — brings a deeply personal perspective to the conversation. Together, they re...

We would love to hear from you! In this episode, we hear from Dan McCarty, a fourth-generation Coloradan with deep roots in the cattle industry. Dan shares stories about his family's history in agriculture, going all the way back to his great-grandfather, a medical doctor who also speculated on farmland. Dan also talks about his unlikely friendship with Terry, how they met through the Nationa...

We would love to hear from you! Today we head to Paonia, Colorado, to sit down with Mark Roeber.  He operates Mt Lamborn LLC and Mt Lamborn Triple LLP. This multi-generational operation’s story begins in 1889, when the first generation purchased the property from the Utes, establishing a legacy that runs as deep as the canyons west of Crested Butte. Mark and his wife Jody have four children.  Thei...

We would love to hear from you! We are replaying one of our favorites!  Today, I’m joined by Tim Canterbury, a longtime family friend and true cattleman. My kids know him as “Uncle Tim.” He’s played Barbie dolls and many rounds of checkers with our kids, and more importantly, he was a loyal friend to Terry. Tim runs a cow-calf operation near Salida, Colorado, and currently serves as President of t...

We would love to hear from you! Today we're replaying an episode I recorded about a month ago with someone very special to Terry and me, Bill Gray of Gray Ranches in Ordway, Colorado.  When I first came into the CCA world, I honestly thought Bill was the association. He was on the board when Terry was hired and remained in that position for nearly a decade afterward. One of the people who bel...