Position Title: Ranch Foreman/Manager
Name of Ranch/Business: Windy Bar Ranch
Location: Stonewall, TX
Position Description:
Windy Bar Ranch is a 150-cow, pasture to plate beef operation that is headquartered in Stonewall, Texas. We produce 100% black Angus cattle. We also sell registered bulls and females.
Qualifications:
- College degree in agriculture preferred but not required.
- Experience with cattle and ranch equipment preferred.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
This position will involve you in every aspect of a cutting-edge, pasture-to-plate beef operation. The ranch manager position would involve the following tasks:
- Manage and process beef sales, pickups and shipments.
- Schedule and coordinate beef pickups by consumers at the ranch.
- Manage beef inventory of walk-in freezer, storage facility and beef processors.
- Prepare budget and business plan for any proposed “value-added” additions to Windy Bar Ranch.
- Assist in advertising and promotion of Windy Bar Ranch locally-raised beef.
- Assist in marketing plans for consumer beef sales.
- Assist in marketing plans for registered cattle and semen sales.
- Mix feed for all cattle on feed.
- Locate and schedule delivery of feed products (hay, corn, corn gluten, etc.) for ranch.
- Maintain and service equipment such as ranch truck, tractors, feed mixers, Kawasaki Mule, 4-wheelers, roll-out irrigation unit, etc.
- Manage irrigation of paddocks with roll-out irrigation unit.
- Assist in preparing fields and planting annual winter cover crops.
- Assist with haying operations.
- Assist in planning and executing rotational grazing system for all cattle.
- Assist in maintenance and repair of electric and barb wire fences.
- Assist in checking cattle and ensuring availability of water, salt and supplemental protein.
- Assist in weighing and tagging calves at birth.
- Assist in weaning calves.
- Assist in weighing and working cattle, including tattoos, freeze branding and vaccinations.
- Maintain current inventory records of all classes of cattle at all locations.
- Assist in hauling cattle to processor, auction or purchaser.
- Assist with synchronizing cattle for AI and embryo transfer.
- Assist with AI of cattle.
- Assist in marketing of registered bulls and females.
- Interview and assist in selection of summer intern.
Estimated Salary & Benefits: Negotiable, depending on qualifications and experience.
To Apply: Contact Michael Klein.
Website: https://www.windybarbeef.com
Ranch Contact Name:
Michael Klein
klein.windybarranch.michael@gmail.com
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Comments 1
I look at every opportunity as a challenge to use my experience to learn new methods of operation that make a cattle operation, efficient and profitable. There is a place in time where a man has to make a business decision and pass the baton to the next person and keep a focus on their own projects. There is also a time when an established breeding program, infrastructure and precise asset control can pave the way to the end of the line in direct to consumer beef sales. This is the cutting edge of our industry…JDV