Ross Bronson Email & Phone Number

At Carbon Source we work with ag producers to guide them toward the carbon market options that best fit their needs. This includes methane, cropping, grasslands and forestry.

Acting as a consultant on differing risk management tools available to agricultural producers. These tools include insurance products, operational decisions, marketing choices, and sometimes a shift in paradigm. As part of that role, I write for industry publications, present at industry events, and generate blog content, webinars and bi-weekly market.

Idaho, United States

What is your drought plan? What if you could get paid when precipitation drops below the 70 year average, helping cover feed costs, supplemental pasture costs, and avoid destocking! Call me! Let's at least talk about it.

Various

• Managed beef cattle for uniformity, low input, and quality; including efforts to establish end user marketing
• Operated on 4,000 private lease acres and approximately 9,000 acres of BLM leased ground
• Acted as a broker for livestock and equipment
• Made beneficial connections with area business owners
• Created a financial system to track income and expenses
• Bred AQHA and APHA horses

Kingsville, Texas

• Facilitating outreach through lectureships and other educational opportunities
• Consulting on real projects for industry ranches
• Course work in systems thinking, managerial finance and accounting, genetics, wildlife and ecology, and production agricultural systems
• Lectureships in managerial accounting, managing the cow-calf business, application of advanced genetic technology in beef cattle, grazing management, systems thinking in ranching, strategic planning, equine management.
• Attended the annual Holt Cat Symposium on The Future of Beef Marketing and The Future of the Wildlife Enterprise; as well as Generational Transfer of Ownership, Horse Program Success on Working Ranches: Strategic and.
• Evaluation of decision making such as heifer development, horse enterprise analysis, and potential land acquisitions through financial analysis including NPV, IRR, MIRR and payback period

Gateway, Colorado

• Managed 4-5 employees
• Submitted proposals for capital improvement projects
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Took the business from a failing entity to one with significantly improved financials and a dramatic increase in customer satisfaction as well as an impressive safety record
• Improved profitability by budgeting and proper resource management
• Developed and facilitated corporate team building, and leadership training events based off of stockmanship and animal behavior

Laie, Hawaii

• Managed 5-10 employees as well as volunteers
• Worked with the owners to create a vision and achieve business goals
• Created a structured cattle management program to raise and market natural grass fed beef
• Designed and implemented rotational grazing practices resulting in large savings on feed costs
• Worked with USDA on the first time farmers grant application
• Improved pastures through brush and noxious weed management

West Yellowstone, Montana

• Oversaw 3-5 employees
• Managed 300 acres of irrigated pasture for optimum production
• Aided in operating decisions, herd management, and the animal culling process
• Acted as liaison between lessee and ranch owners on occasion, including dispute mediation
• Improved herd health and condition
• Trained employees in company protocol and industry standards

Rexburg Idaho

• Carried out detailed feed analysis
• Helped implement an Ag Rendezvous for area FFA groups
• Doctored livestock using forms of hydrotherapy as well as administering IM and IV medications.
• Developed an accounting system to track income and expenses
• Managed staff of student workers
• Worked closely with veterinarians for treatment and diagnosis of health problems

Certificate Of Advanced Ranch Management, Ranch Management

Summer Internship: Developing a regenerative agriculture plan for reseeding irrigated ground at Blue Creek Ranch, Oshkosh, NE. Thesis.

Bachelor'S Degree, Animal Sciences

Internship: Horse Enterprise Student Manager over the university's horse herd and facility. Managing both class and recreational uses for.