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Calf-Roper Tim Malm has big dreams. His goal is to once again compete horseback in the arena in the sport he grew up loving and excelling at.   Here is Tim's Story from his website at www.stronger413.com Hi! I am Tim Malm! "Welcome to my website. I was a 3x qualifier to the National High School Finals Rodeo and the 2009 National High School Reserve Champion Calf Roper. I suffered a Traumatic Brain...

Warren Thompson from Colorado has been training horses and mules for years and has a stellar reputation. I was just looking on our website and it looks like Warren has several really good-looking mules and horses for sale currently. Visit those listings on horsemanscorner.com . Just click on sale horses.   Meanwhile, let's check in with Warren and find out what he does different when it comes to g...

We have Tray Pelster on again today, New Mexico Horsewoman and Businesswoman with the Wild Cayuse Cinches business. Tell us what ranching life is like, what's the experience like there?   It's a wonderful experience. Every day I learn something new and I'm starting to build more things that aren't just cinches, cinches and breast collars and the different varieties and cinches and breast collars a...

I recently asked New Mexico Horsewoman Tray Pelster what it takes to be a trainer.   I think a horse trainer is a horse trainer. You have to be, it's like a runner, people who run for fun. They're like, oh, you gotta be special. It's gotta be chasing you if you want me to run. It's the same concept to be a horse trainer and do it for the public and really enjoy doing it or just stay in the busines...

Today we talk to Tray Pelster again, this time about her Wild Cayuse Cinches business. Tell us more.   "I started this cinch making business with my mom probably seven years ago. I knew at some point I would be pregnant and having kids and that was my ultimate goal with my husband was to start a family and get to do this with a family. So I wanted to have a little bit of extra income and like a ba...

New Mexico Horsewoman and trainer Tray Pelster on how she likes to start horses.   "I like to do a lot of ground work so I don't have to deal with as much crap on top of them. I have the time to spend with them when I was training horses under people. You have 30 days so you spend across the board from a lot of my trainers on average about a week, week and a half in the round pin and then you just...

Meet Tray Pelster, Ranch Wife and Businesswoman from New Mexico Tray Pelster grew up deeply involved in the world of horses and ranching, particularly influenced by her father, who was a reputable horse trainer, and her grandfather who raised Appaloosas and competed at a national level in various disciplines like rain cow horse and cutting. Tray began her training under challenging conditions ofte...

For the listening publics we're talking to Brandi Iverson. I met Brandi at the Montana Cowboy Poetry gathering in Lewiston, Montana. You were a vendor. Tell us what you're doing there.   Yeah, so I sell wild rags, which are cowboy neckerchiefs. I bought the business about three and a half years ago to be able to stay home with my three kids more often on the ranch. I was previously a teacher in ou...

Some great advice from Alturist, California horseman, Buck Brannaman...

Now let's get to today's interview with aaster horseman and clinician from Texas, Mr. Van Hargis. On our last program, Van covered what he prefers in a bit. Now we ask him the question about saddles. So Van, what do you look for in a saddle? Is it fit or is it comfort for the horse? What is it?   Yes sir, what I'm looking for in a saddle of course, you hit the nail right on the head and I want to...

Master Horseman and clinician from Texas, Mr. Van Hargis. What kind of bit do you like to use, Van? "Well, to me, I'm looking for something that's going to be extremely simple. I start all of my coats off. The first rides are usually with a halter and a lead rope and then I'll graduate to what I call a glorified loping hackamore, which is just a real simple one step above a halter. But the first b...

Now here's a special treat, the late Howard Hale with an interview with Van Hargis. This is from an interview that I did with Van a couple of years ago. One of the things and one of the people that he talked about was Jack Brainaerd. Gosh Jack Brainerd is an interesting horseman, isn't he? He's probably in his 90s van but really an interesting individual. "One of my little dreams come true. I had...

Good morning everybody, this is Van Hargis with Van Hargis Horsemanship and welcome to the Ranch Road. "For years I've earned a reputation of getting horses to be good stoppers at a fairly young age and people have always asked, well how do you get those little young horses to stop so big? And number one, I don't really work on it in particular, I just work on the basic fundamentals. Number one, I...

Good morning everybody, this is Van Hargis with Van Hargis Horsemanship and welcome to the Ranch Road. We have a lot of students that come out to the ranch, and oftentimes on their applications, one of the first things they do to lend themselves some sort of credibility is tell me two things.   I've been around horses my whole life, and then second is I love horses.   Now, both of those are import...

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Farm Rescue volunteers have been in Nebraska for a week, helping farm families recover and prepare for the planting season. From delivering hay with Operation Hay Lift to planting crops free of charge, we’re here for the next steps.   Know a farm family in need? Refer them online.

In an article by Angie Denton in Drovers, we catch a glimpse of the horror that ranching families went through on that fateful March night in Nebraska. LISTEN IN...     Link to article... https://www.drovers.com/news/industry/through-flames-miracles-heartbreak-and-fight-nebraskas-cattle-country

Now here's legendary trainer, Vaughn Knudson. "If you've opened a circle or you're in a spin, working a cow doesn't matter if you turn the left, you put your hand out there, his eye goes first and then his head. And that's extremely important because all other bits, it's the right eye that goes first and then he turns his head to the left. The best way you can ever work a horse is to have left wor...

Colorado Horsewoman Mindy Bower reflecting back on her experience with Ray Hunt, "But the first moment I listened to him I was, I couldn't believe how amazing it was so it didn't take me but a minute to figure that out. But I just feel like nowadays there's just trainers or there's a million of them. They're everywhere and it doesn't take anything to get a client. I mean I've worked with a lot of...

Hi, I'm Bill Gross, founder and president of Farm Rescue. Through the 1980s my parents had some financial hardships, our family was in danger of losing the farm. My family told me to pursue higher education and a career outside of farming. So I went on to be an airline pilot. I've been flying for UPS Airlines as a Boeing 747 captain for more than 30 years. But you know my heart never left the farm...

Do you know about our Equine Podcast Search Engine? That's right, if you're looking for good, Equine Podcasts, you can use HorsemansCorner.com or equinepodcastsearch.com, made possible by Van Hargis Horsemanship. Now here's Van Hargis with his Morning Ranch Road Program. Enjoy! Good morning everybody, this is Van Hargis with Van Hargis Horsemanship and welcome to the Ranch Road. Have you guys ever...

I get questions all the time, "Ricky, in your opinion what does it take to make a bridal horse?" I just kind of shrug my shoulders now where I am in my life and I'm like I don't know the answer to that. I don't, I mean because if you go and you talk to my friend Buck about it, he's pretty sophisticated in what he's looking for to make that horse a bridal horse in the movements that he wants, right...

Land and livestock owners around the country are facing some really tough conditions right now. Extreme heat watch, blizzards, tornado watches and warnings, freeze warnings, cold weather advisories, wildfires in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, dust storms in Texas, flooding in the Northeast, severe thunderstorms and hail. Every type of weather possible throughout the country right now. And speaking...