The Cattle Call

The Cattle Call Podcast, hosted by Curtis Ohlde will tell the story of America’s Pioneers in the Beef Cattle Industry past and current. Primarily focusing on those in Commercial Production and Seed-Stock Production, Curtis will go on a journey with podcast guest from the starting of the Ranch or Farm through the ups and downs to current operation status. In the United States Beef Cattle Production is relatively new compared to other parts of the world. Recording those 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation producers stories to share with others in our Industry and give light to those outside the Ag Community the hard work, struggles, the good and the bad that came along to get them to where they are today. The Cattle Call will start as a Bi-weekly podcast, in the event enough stories are banked the podcast may move to weekly. In addition as time goes the podcast may branch out into segments about the history of beef cattle production, beef breeds, stock shows that provide networking of ranchers and promotion, looking at the future of Beef Cattle Production Worldwide and other possible branches.

Host

Curtis Ohlde

Curtis grew up in North Central Kansas, Linn/Palmer area where his family had a dairy. Early on he had an interest in cattle building a commercial cow/calf herd. Received his B.S. in Animal Science from Fort Hays and had an interest in Genetics and Reproduction. At FHSU he was a student teacher for genetics and gave his senior thesis on Embryo Transfer. While in college Curtis grew his cow herd to over 100 cows. After graduation he returned home to manage the herd health and breeding of the 300 head dairy herd in addition to building his cow herd. 1995 was a challenging year with a drop in cattle prices, married and a new son Taylor. The hard decision was made to sell cows, give up lease females and relocate to Leavenworth County to work in the Kansas City area as a Pipefitter. Today Curtis runs a small herd of Commercial and Registered Cows. His children Taylor and daughter Logan have been very active in showing livestock and active in the Charolais Junior Program.