Gartner-Denowh Angus Ranch (GDAR) is located just on the outskirts of Sidney, MT, a close-knit family run ranch that focuses on raising efficient and functional cattle bred for the commercial cattle operation. GDAR began in 1957 when Joe Gartner and Russel Denowh bought 20 head of registered Angus cows from a dispersion sale in Montana. In 1974, Denowh and his son, Mickey, bought out Joe Gartner but kept the commercial name. At this time of the GDAR's life, they were calving about 150 cows and selling around 60 bulls per year. Russell's other son, Paul, joined the operation in 1984. GDAR expanded in 1990 when the Blue Mountain Ranch was purchased. This purchase added 13,000 acres of native range and is used for summer grazing. Mickey, Paul,
and Chad Denowh all run the ranch together along with their families. GDAR is proud to be a family run operation, and they are now marketing 225 bulls a year. New methods and technologies have been added to the ranch since 1957, but the core principals behind the program remain the same. GDAR is an operation made up of grazing land, but they also have some farmland in which they raise freed. The ranch calves around 800 cows and heifers each year, and with varying Montana weather with weeks of below zero temperatures and summer days reaching 100 degrees, their cows are expected to endure and thrive with mother nature. In fall, GDAR's cows are fed at low cost and a low energy diet to weed out any inefficient cows. Which means cows that cant function on a low input system in their environment are culled from the herd. A majority of GDAR's bulls go to commercial operations in a similar environment to their own, and their goal is to make sure their bulls surpass their expectations. While GDAR's environment and location is tough and can create a lot of extra work, they are able to test their genetics in such a harsh and varying location. This being that GDAR can only make their genetics more functional, more efficient, and more profitable. Gartner-Denowh Angus Ranch has been family run for over 50 years, and they are proud of the business and cattle they have established in the community. Stop by and visit, or call them at 406-798-3541.
Hatcher Family Dairy was established in 1831 and the Hatcher’s have been milking cows ever since. Throughout most of Hatcher Family Dairy’s history, milk produced on the farm was sold to a milk cooperative owned by farmers. The milk cooperative would transport the Hatcher’s raw milk from the farm to a processing plant where it was processed along with milk from other farms. Ultimately, all the milk processed by the milk cooperative comingled and was sold under various brand names to groceries stores.
High Sky Children’s Ranch is a 24-hour residential care and treatment facility and is licensed through the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services as a Child Placing Agency. High Sky strives to provide quality care and treatment for children who have been abused, neglected or troubled. High efforts are shown towards restoring the family unit or preparing the child to live independently when they age out of the system. There are many programs within High Sky and all programs are implemented to provide a structured environment by using structured behavioral management. Children placed in the care of High Sky are helped with integrating into a natural home setting and taught how to be a productive and independent adult. High Sky strives to bring caring and healing into the lives of children and families as well as give them tools and skills to live a creative and productive life (Personal Communication, 2013).
Hasheider, Philip. How to Raise Cattle: Everything You Need to Know. St. Paul: Voyageur, 2007. Print.
A. Define the Problem Natureview Farm, Inc. (Natureview), a small yogurt company founded in 1989, produces and markets yogurt using natural ingredients and a distinct manufacturing method that yields a smooth, creamy texture without adding artificial thickeners. As a result of this emphasis on natural ingredients, the brand has established a reputation for high quality, great tasting yogurt and is the leading natural foods brand of refrigerated yogurt. Natureview’s yogurts – available in twelve flavors in 8-ounce cups, four flavors in 32-ounce cups, and multi-pack yogurt products – are distributed nationally and the company shares leadership in the natural food channel. In 1999, the company’s revenues grew from $100,000 to $13 million; however, despite Natureview’s success and well-established brand, the company has long battled to preserve a steady level of profitability. In 1996, Jim Wagner was hired as chief financial officer and was able to successfully achieve steady profitability for the company.
The last act implemented for the rangelands was the Range Improvement Act of 1978 which was created to manage, maintain, and improve the condition of public rangelands so that they become as productive as feasible for all rangeland values through an equitable fee for public grazing use of federal lands.
Today, Kealia Ranch consists of nearly 10,000 fee simple acres and 2,000 leased acres of lands from the ocean shores in South Kona to the high slopes of Mauna Loa. While its core interest continues as cattle ranching and locally marketing grass finished cattle, the ranch has expanded operations to include wild game hunting tours, farming of cocoa and coffee, and a sm...
AIG’s corporate culture played a big role in its downfall. They seemed to be more concerned about their own personal gains in the short run than what the effects were going to be in the long run. The company did very poorly and accumulated billions of dollars in the red, and still many top executives were getting paid in cash bonuses after the bailout. These bonuses amounted to almost 2-3 times their salaries they earned before the bailout. AIG’s focus was on the reward system this placed little responsibility on executives who made poor decisions. This resulted in many believing AIG had neither concern nor acknowledgement to changing their ways. Also, shortly after the bailout AIG spent over $300,000 on a conference held in phoenix at a lavish resort. This did not sit very well with stakeholders. AIG executives and upper management time and time again were showing little change in business practices even after the bailout.
Tejon Ranch Co. is one of the largest pieces of privately owned property in the nation (270,000 acres). On February 11th, a 186 page complaint was filed. The lawsuit filed against the company alleges that officials of the company (i.e. president, HR director, CEO, Director of Hunting and Equestrian Operations, etc.) were involved in discrimination, harassment, wage theft and unethical patterns of action that terminate careers and create miserable workplaces in order to get employees to quit.
Similar to the other states and territories, Arizona had what they believed was endless open range. Arizona also had a favorable climate that promoted the growth of vegetation. “Perennial grasses blanketed the broad valley floors, betraying no hint of the wide variations in annual rainfall and productivity that would later catch cattlemen unprepared” (Sayre 248). However, in the twenty years of the Cattle Boom, Arizona experienced a tragedy of the commons. The overpopulation of cattle had depleted the vegetation and degraded the
Your valuable suggestions are much appreciated and are really very helpful in what we are trying to do here. I want to share my thoughts about the market testing we want to conduct and also discuss with you the ideas you have proposed, with the objective of finalizing them and ensuring we have the right approach for this initiative. I have outlined below my thinking on key aspects for your consideration, with the objective of ensuring the right strategy for this key initiative at Clover Valley.
Ranching goes beyond chasing cows and riding horses. Ranchers are businessmen. They carefully manage their operation's expenses, income, and taxes like other typical businessmen. Income only comes once a year when they sell their calves in the fall. Therefore, each dollar is spent wisely on equipment, feed, and advertising.
This case was about an ethical situation that George Stein, a summer intern at Eastern Dairy, faced at one of the nigh shifts he participated in.
This assignment is my own work, presented in my own words, ALL sources of information have been cited and any direct quotations are contained within quotation marks.
Dairy cattle are cattle that are bred for milk production purposes instead of meat and then used for dairy production. Most of Bos taurus or temperate dairy cattle are known as the popular breeds for dairy, such as Friesian-Holstein which rank the first among the dairy breeds. In Malaysia, the imported temperate dairy cattle reared in Malaysia can cause many problems such as can cause heat stress to the cattle since Malaysia is a hot and humid country, unlike the temperate countries.
They are in the central of human culture and represent one of the most important domesticated animals (Loftus et al. 1994). The evolution and domestication of cattle have been always contentious research particularly in determining the relationship between the two main types of cattle the humped zebu and hump less taurine. Due to the economic importance of cattle, morphological and genetic differences observed between the two subspecies are still an active area of research and speculations (David et al. 1997). India is rich in dairy animal diversity. It has diverse and distinguishing cattle genetic resources which led to their domestication some 10000 years