August 2019 Tana Autrey When you hear of a family business going back more than 140 years, intuition tells you it’s passed successfully through the generations with an abundance of hard work and heart. But, after “meeting” Tana Autrey, the 5th generation behind Campbell Ranch located mostly in San Saba County, you realize it’s not…

June 2019 Coleman Locke This month’s featured producer is Coleman Locke, a 5th generation rancher and President of J.D. Hudgins, Inc., a sizeable yet still family-run operation that’s been around for more than 110 years! The ranch specializes in registered Brahman, a popular breed able to tolerate heat and repel insects, making the cattle a…

October 2023 Pat McDowell Head about 80 miles east of Amarillo and you’ll run into McDowell Ranch located in the small town of Shamrock, Texas. This family-run Commercial Cow and Stocker Cattle operation is operated by Pat McDowell, along with his two brothers, John and Mark and his niece and her husband, Kate and Tyler…

April 2019 Janna Stubbs Meet this month’s featured beef producer and long-time runner, Janna Stubbs, from Alpine, a small West Texas town also home to Sul Ross University and nearby Big Bend National Park. Along with her husband, she owns Andy & Janna Stubbs, Stubbs Cattle Co., LLC, today a good-sized commercial cow-calf operation he…

March 2019 Tyson Hann To Tyson Hann, juggling a full-time job in Environmental Engineering in Katy, Texas and then commuting two hours each way to work the family ranch every weekend has become a way of life – and so has not sleeping much! Monday through Friday, Tyson is busy designing water and wastewater treatment…