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Hosted by Garrett Ruskamp · business · EN-US · 141 episodes
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 Fac
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome 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.
Pioneer Mindset is hosted by Garrett Ruskamp. The show has published 141 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "E140 | We Bought Farm Ground: Here's the Process Start to Finish" (13 October 2026, 43 minutes), "E139 | Farm Weird and Figure It Out with Zach Smith The Stock Cropper: Part 2" (6 October 2026, 35 minutes), and "E138 | Farm Weird and Figure It Out with Zach Smith The Stock Cropper" (29 September 2026, 30 minutes).
Pioneer Mindset publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 32 minutes across 141 episodes.
Booking probability for Pioneer Mindset is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Pioneer Mindset requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Pioneer Mindset's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Pioneer Mindset are Grain & Oilseed Farming. Pioneer Mindset has a business audience.
Garrett Ruskamp hosts Pioneer Mindset, a business show with 141 episodes published.
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Episode #140
Episode 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 recently and going through it firsthand...
Episode #139
Episode 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 Zach's background, how Stock Cropper started...
Episode #138
Episode 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 Stock Cropper, is a fifth generation Iowa...
Episode #137
Episode 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 of debt is to grow your way out of it...
Episode #136
Episode 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 Singular Agronomics dealer conference. Being...
Episode #135
Episode 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 background, how sell-buy marketing works and more...
Episode #134
Episode 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 disappoint. Doug teaches sell-buy marketing, a...
Episode #133
Episode 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 doing on our farm this year: small grains...
Episode #132
Episode 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 episode is my version of one. Nothing...
Episode #131
Episode 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 they got a bite, I started thinking...
Episode #130
Episode 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 your control. For most of us, our days are...
Episode #129
Episode 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 attended with Doug Ferguson, Mr. Cattlemaster...
Episode #128
Episode 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 month ago. And that moment, the pocket...
Episode #127
Episode 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 is about what becomes possible when you...
Episode #126
Episode 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 hits at once. Those little things have a...
Episode #125
Episode 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 in and all the coulda shoulda woulda...
Episode #124
Episode 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 $2 million land deal and I had to decide...
Episode #123
<p>Episode Summary</p> <p>Coming from the son of the father who tried to get his son back to the operation, it's a tough thing to wrap your head around that if it wasn't for me, the farm would not have had to endure...
Episode #122
<p>Episode Summary</p> <p>Here's a question most farmers never stop to ask: how much equipment do you actually need?</p> <p>If you can reduce your overhead, you're giving yourself a raise. So why do we keep signing up...
Episode #121
<p>Episode Summary</p> <p>I was in the sprayer the other day and a thought hit me: should farmers actually be sharing equipment? So I took the question to social media and the responses came flying in. Some people swore...
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