Arizona Ranching Conditions

Welcome to the Cattleman’s Corner. I’m Brian Hale, sitting in for the late Howard Hale, as we continue his legacy of speaking with cattlemen and women from around the globe. Gelvie and Balancer cattle are well known throughout the beef industry for their maternal strengths and superior growth.

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The cube that I was getting, which was a bigger cube, they, for whatever reason, that company went out of business. So I had to switch to a different brand. Now we just feed that mainly in the winter and we feed it to our cows.

So how big would be your biggest pasture and how big is the smallest? Oh, the biggest pasture we have would be on the desert. I’m making a guess here, but it’s probably 15 sections. A section is a square mile and then we have some pastures that are a little bit smaller, like a section, which would be a square mile.

Those would be like a shipping trap. That would be a pasture, like what we put cattle into together, you know, a little bit easier to ship out of. So now that’s on the desert ranch down south of Apache Junction, right? Yes, that’s on the desert.

In Snowflake, probably our pastures up there, they range probably from biggest pasture being seven or eight sections down to some traps that are about a half a section. That’s Rodeo Reed Flake from Arizona. Find him on YouTube as Rodeo Reed.

That’s going to do it for the Cattleman’s Corner. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I’m Brian Hale.