Beefmaster Thrives in the High Desert of Eastern Oregon

Last week BBU staff members, Bill Pendergrass and Jeralyn Novak, traveled to the high desert of Oregon to visit with commercial cattlemen. Roaring Springs Ranch is a 1.5 million acres ranch located in the sweeping Catlow Valley on the high desert of southeastern Oregon in Harney County. The ranch is a contiguous block of land located between Adel, Fields and Frenchglen. These photos only show a small portion of the ranch that uses Beefmaster bulls and females in their commercial cow operation to provide beef for their branded beef program, Country Natural Beef. Country Natural Beef is one of the nation’s leaders in natural beef production.

Beefmasters are important to the success of Roaring Springs Ranch says the ranch’s General Manager Stacy Davies. “We need a cow that doesn’t just survive but thrives in the high desert” of the Northwest and “Beefmasters and Beefmaster cross cattle thrive for us” at Roaring Springs Ranch.