About this episode
What happens when a fifth-generation rancher is required to leave the family operation for ten years before he can come back?
In this episode of The Ranch Rolodex, Derek sits down with Logan Pribbeno of Wine Glass Ranch in Southwest Nebraska, a multi-generational ranch that's been in his family for 140 years. Logan's family had a rule: leave the state, leave agriculture, and stay gone for a decade. He spent those years studying economics at UC Santa Barbara and working in Silicon Valley finance through the Great Recession, and he came home viewing the ranch as a business first.
Derek and Logan dig into how that time away shaped his approach to ranch finances, from treating cattle as financial instruments to waging war on overhead and using long-term mortgage debt as an inflation hedge.
They close on ranch succession, the K-shaped economy, and how Logan structured his operation so he can leave for six months while the business keeps improving.
In this episode
- Why Logan's family required him to spend ten years away before coming home to Wine Glass Ranch
- Why he'd rather graze than own a baler
- How a West Coast management style keeps his crew fully staffed
- Why Wine Glass sold its cow herd and paid cash for land, and what Logan would do differently
- Building a crew and a business that can run without the owner for six months
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Meet Logan
Logan is a fifth generation at Wine Glass Ranch in Southwest Nebraska. He returned to the family ranch with his wife and two daughters in 2012. Prior to ranching he was working with a consulting firm in Silicon Valley spanning through the Great Recession.
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