Riki Kremers
Together with my husband and daughter, we own and operate a cattle and horse ranch in East Central Wyoming, where the typical annual stocking rate is 40 acres/cow, which also for most area ranches includes feeding hay for 4-5 months. Since 2000, when my husband really started taking a hard look at finances, we have been year round grazers. For the past 6 years we have utilized the stockmanship of Instinctive Migratory Grazing to reboot our cowherd to effectively graze and regenerate the land. We started down the path of trying to increase our forage base when we realized that land expansion was not going to be a possibility. Since 2017 we have consistently more than doubled, and in some years tripled our forage production and stocking rate, we now average 17 acres/cow, and have been as low as 13 acres/cow while grazing stockpiled forage all winter. Do to increasing our forage production, we came to realize we essentially doubled and sometimes tripled the size of our ranch through the improvement in grazing, without purchasing any additional land or infrastructure.
Appears in 1 Episode
173. Managing 8,000 Acres with Planned Migratory Grazing with Riki Kremers
Riki Kremers joins us from Kremers Ranch in Lance Creek, Wyoming, where she and her family manage 8,000 acres of rough, arid country with Angus-cross cattle, horses, a...
