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When Growth Creates New Risk in Your Business with Tyler Dawley [episode 89]


header graphic When Growth Creates New Risk in Your Business with Tyler Dawley [episode 89]

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As a business grows, the risks change. What works when you are selling small amounts to many customers may not work when your operation begins moving larger volumes and dealing with much bigger invoices. In this episode, John Haskell sits down with returning guest Tyler Dawley to talk about how growth in Tyler’s pasture-raised chicken business has introduced new financial risks.


Tyler shares lessons he is learning in real time about protecting a business as it scales, including the emotional challenge of enforcing payment terms and why larger transactions require more formal agreements and processes. The conversation highlights an important point for any livestock or agricultural business: bigger operations require a different level of structure, risk management, and discipline.


In this episode, When Growth Creates New Risk in Your Business with Tyler Dawley, we cover: 

  • How Tyler’s chicken business evolved from small direct sales to large wholesale orders

  • Why larger customers and bigger invoices create new financial risks

  • The impact that late or unpaid invoices can have on a growing operation

  • Ideas for protecting your business with payment terms, contracts, and guarantees

  • The challenge of balancing personal relationships with business decisions

  • Why growing businesses need new systems for managing receivables and risk


Meet Tyler:

Tyler Dawley is a guy who has lived in one spot his entire life. That spot is Big Bluff Ranch, the family ranch. Since he was a kid, driving the ranch truck looking through (not over) the steering wheel, he has found purpose and passion working with the land and animals. Since 2000, he has been driving innovations on the ranch. Everything from farmer's markets to grass-fed beef to pasture poultry to direct marketing over the internet.


Currently, Big Bluff Ranch is one of the largest producers of organic, pasture-raised, non-corn/soy chicken on the West Coast. Now raising the 4th generation of Dawleys on the ranch, Tyler knows way more about raising chickens on pasture than a normal person should. Ask him what's going on, and the answer is always the same - "Just raising chickens and kids."

  

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More about the Ranchonomics podcast:  

Welcome to Ranchonomics, where we empower you to build a better ranch and transform your operation into a thriving business. This podcast is brought to you by Ranch Right LLC, and together we will look at essential strategies, mindsets, and processes needed to take command of your financials and master the business metrics that make all the difference. If you are ready to start winning at ranching, then you are in the right spot. 


With each episode of Ranchonomics, you will hear inspiring success stories, gain simple yet powerful financial literacy tips, and listen to insightful interviews with industry experts and real-life practitioners. 


Whether you are a seasoned rancher or just starting out, we believe that managing a ranch shouldn't mean drowning in paperwork or missing out on valuable opportunities. Our mission is to help you see the link between your daily ranching operations and your financials that allow you to go from chaos to clarity and achieve your goals. 


Join us as we explore the intersection of ranching and finance, helping you understand your numbers and make informed decisions that propel your business forward. 

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