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Ranching for Profit Workshop
The Three Secrets for Increasing Profit
Workshop Dates
August 20-21, 2025, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
University of Idaho Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center
10881 N Boyer Rd.
Sandpoint, ID
Cost
Cost $40 per person
Partial scholarships available contact Colette DePhelps (cdephelps@uidaho.edu) for more information.
Workshop Description
Andrew Morris, a Ranching for Profit Instructor, will lead this two-day workshop. Ranchers will learn valuable techniques to increase the financial sustainability of their operations and increase profits through direct and intermediated sales. Workshop topics include a background on ranching profitability, restructuring your ranch for profitability, evaluating success, financial principles, understanding the balance sheet, key financial ratios, employee structure, and more. Ranchers Eileen Napier and Stan Hayes will add to the conversation by sharing their experience at Ramstead Ranch in Ione, Washington. This workshop is for ranchers looking to transform their operation into a profitable business with less work and less stress while improving rangeland health and productivity.
Refreshments
Drinks and refreshments will be provided both days as well as lunch on the first day. Lunch will be on your own the second day.
Travel Accommodations
Along with several hotels and camping spots in the area, you can also stay on site at the Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center in the bunk house. The bunk house sleeps up to 35 and is $25/bed for the first night and $5/bed for additional nights. Bedding is provided. For more information about the bunk house email Kate Wood kwood@uidaho.edu.
"Ranching for Profit was the best training I've ever had on any topic in my entire life. It has fundamentally changed the way I think about my business and my only regret is that I didn't do it 15 years earlier."
- Mike Guebert, Corbett, Oregon
About the Instructor - Andrew Morris
Andrew Morris is the Executive Link Coordinator for Ranch Management Consultants (RMC). Andrew grew up in Ohio on a beef and crop farm. He attended Ohio State University, Ag Tech Institute, majoring in beef management. When he married his wife Abby in 1996 they began their own beef operation with registered and commercial cow/calf and a retail grass finished beef enterprise. While searching for ways to improve their business they found RMC and attended their first Ranching for Profit School in 2017. Armed with new tools and a desire to expand the business, Andrew retired from a firefighting career and moved their operation to southeast Oklahoma in 2018 and began ranching full time. With the help of Abby and their 3 children Cole, Josie, and Lane they developed a working ranch from the ground up with cow/calf, small ruminant and hunting enterprises. Andrew and Abby have been Executive Link members since 2019 and credit much of their success to the program. Andrew is passionate about the experience he has had in EL and is excited to be able to share the same opportunities with others. Andrew and Abby are taking advantage of their success and currently living near Salmon, Idaho and enjoying all that comes with life in the Rockies.
