The Ranchlands Review

Regenerative Ranching: Old Mojo in a New Age

What do we mean when we use the term “regenerative agriculture”? In our view, it is a coalescing of people who care and are actively doing something about the ecological...

Monitoring our Impact on the Land

There is more than one way to know a place. There is more than one way to see a landscape. There is more than one way to understand land health....

Beefmasters: The Fertile Cow

Of all the diverse classes of cattle we have on the Chico, our mother cows work the hardest.

Beefmasters: The Bull

The Beefmaster bull is a symbol of strength and resilience in a herd that is built for production, endurance, and efficiency.

Beefmasters: A Philosophy Embodied

A Beefmaster cow is more that an animal; she is a management philosophy embodied – a flesh-and-blood way of living with the land that represents how humans and their animals...

Working Hard

When I was a kid, the days were long.

Spring Musings

I was thinking today about how different spring times can be from one year to the next.

Here Comes Branding Season

As the days lengthen, drawing winter closer to spring, we begin readying ourselves for calving season, which officially starts for us April 1st and goes into June. In a normal...

Meet Deuce the Ranch Dog

Deuce Meldon, the hanging tree cowdog who belongs to Chico Basin Ranch’s foreman Jake, is both a loyal companion and a helpful herder. His whole life revolves around working cows,...

Origins of the Diamond Star

Our brand has become a symbol of the pride we take in breeding a herd of cattle that is the embodiment of our philosophy of ranching.

A Photo Intern’s First Impressions

I detasseled corn for four summers growing up in Nebraska.  As a thirteen-year-old kid, I walked miles of cornrows, pulling tassels I saw that had been missed by the machine...

The Next Generation of Conservation Ranchers

Duke Phillips could have been a “normal” rancher. Raised in northern Mexico in a second-generation ranching family, he came of age in a world where cowboys shot coyotes to protect...

An Apprentice’s Story

Nick Baefsky started an apprenticeship on Chico Basin Ranch six years ago, in the fall of 2012. Today he and his wife Amy, another Ranchlands apprenticeship graduate, manage a ranch...

Our Cattle Management Practices

At Ranchlands, our cattle program is based on “survival of the fittest.” The ones that raise a good calf every year and breed back are the cattle that make it....

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