Pioneer Mindset
af Garrett Ruskamp
E143 | Are You Leaving Money in the Field? How To Capture a Few…
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Welcome to Pioneer Mindset! A podcast for rural ag business owners who want to challenge their mindset and address the discomfort in their business and personal lives by finding clarity resulting in bold conviction.
Your host, Garrett Ruskamp, is a 5th generation farmer, husband and father from rural Nebraska. In the last 10 years of farming, he has experienced many challenges that business owners face on a day to day basis that stem from disorganization and being financially unaware. He understands the weight of uncertainty that comes from operating in a state of mind triggered by these struggles.
Join Garrett as he shares his journey of the struggles he's faced in agriculture as a farmer and family man. He will dive into honest conversations to tackle the mindsets surrounding these issues, that will ultimately help you gain control leading to a profitable and sustainable business.
For more conviction through clarity, follow Garrett Ruskamp on Instagram (@garrettruskamp) or Facebook (Garrett Ruskamp).
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- E143 | Are You Leaving Money in the Field? How To Capture a Few Extra Bucks · 40 min. · Episode 143Episode Summary Drive through the countryside right now and you'll see a lot of clipped clean fields that are going to sit empty until planting. I started wondering if we're…
- E142 | Built in the Dirt: Resiliency, Mental Health and Doing Hard Things with John Sachse · 58 min. · Episode 142Episode Summary John Sachse is back on the podcast this week! John is a fourth generation Kansas rancher, Army National Guard officer, resiliency coach and now a published…
- E141 | Don't Let Harvest Win at the Expense of Everything Else · 30 min. · Episode 141Episode Summary The farm will take every minute you have and every dollar you own. And harvest is where that phrase hits the hardest. I recorded this one on a Tuesday morning…
- E140 | We Bought Farm Ground: Here's the Process Start to Finish · 43 min. · Episode 140Episode Summary Have you ever bought a farm before? Until you've actually gone through the process, it's really hard to know what to expect. We just bought some farm ground here…
- E139 | Farm Weird and Figure It Out with Zach Smith The Stock Cropper: Part 2 · 35 min. · Episode 139Episode Summary We're back with Zach Smith for part two of this conversation. If you missed part one, go back and listen first. There's a lot of good context in there about…
- E138 | Farm Weird and Figure It Out with Zach Smith The Stock Cropper: Part 1 · 30 min. · Episode 138Episode Summary This week I'm bringing on a guy I've been wanting to get on ever since we crossed paths at a friend's field day. Zach Smith, known across the ag world as The…
- E137 | When Expansion Makes Things Worse: Our Farm's Story · 30 min. · Episode 137Episode Summary Is bigger better? Or does bigger just mean more risk? That question showed up on X a while back wrapped in a phrase that got a lot of pushback: the only way out…
- E136 | The Power of Putting Yourself in the Right Rooms · 17 min. · Episode 136Episode Summary Would your future self recommend the circles you're currently in or think you could do better? This episode came straight from a weekend in Kansas City at the…
- E135 | Sell Buy Marketing and Taking Back Control: Part 2 with Doug Ferguson · 43 min. · Episode 135Episode Summary I'm back with Doug Ferguson, Mr. Cattlemaster, for part two of this conversation. If you haven't heard part one yet, go back and listen. Doug shares his…
- E134 | Sell Buy Marketing and Taking Back Control: Part 1 with Doug Ferguson · 34 min. · Episode 134Episode Summary This week I'm Doug Ferguson, Mr. Cattlemaster, to the podcast! He is one of the most unique thinkers in the cattle industry and this conversation did not…
- E133 | Audio Field Day, Part 2: Small Grains, Non-GMO Corn and Nitrogen Trials · 33 min. · Episode 133Episode Summary This is part two of my audio field day series. Last week we walked through the strip crop trial. This week I'm taking you through the rest of what we've been…
- E132 | Audio Field Day, Part 1: The Strip Crop Trial · 33 min. · Episode 132Episode Summary When's the last time you went to somebody else's farm and just tried to learn something? Field days are one of the most underrated things in agriculture and this…
- E131 | 8 Business Lessons From a Fishing Trip · 30 min. · Episode 131Episode Summary We took our family for a little staycation last weekend and somewhere between baiting hooks, untangling fishing lines and watching the boys get excited every time…
- E130 | Here's How to Take Back Control of Your Day · 20 min. · Episode 130Episode Summary If you're struggling with feeling like things are constantly out of your control, it might be because your day is filled with things that are literally out of…
- E129 | Revenue Feeds the Ego. Profits Feed the Family. · 39 min. · Episode 129Episode Summary Unless you change the mind, you won't change the results. The the phrase that sets the tone for this episode came straight from a cattle marketing school I…
- E128 | Don't Put Off These Important Things · 40 min. · Episode 128Episode Summary We're over halfway through the year, halfway through the growing season and right about at that point where things feel just a little less chaotic than they did a…
- E127 | Optimistic vs. Oblivious — There's a Big Difference · 31 min. · Episode 127Episode Summary Last week I talked about scarcity. What it is, what it steals from you and why it hits hardest when you're already vulnerable. This week, we flip it. This episode…
- E126 | Truck Tires, Target Boxes and the Scarcity Trap · 36 min. · Episode 126Episode Summary The truck needs tires again. You just got done taking the sprayer to the shop. The wife wants to go on vacation. Five Target boxes showed up. And somehow it all…
- E125 | The #1 Question in Your Marketing Plan · 20 min. · Episode 125Episode Summary You pull up the marketing app and there it is again, corn down another six cents. Fifty cents off the highs in just a couple of weeks. That sinking feeling sets…
- E124 | Should You Tell Your Banker You're Shopping Around? · 26 min. · Episode 124Episode Summary Are you treating your cost of money like every other input on your farm? Because that's the question I had to ask myself recently. We're in the middle of a land…







