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Aaron DeVries

Aaron DeVries

Aaron DeVries is a multigenerational Montana rancher in Phillips County and an instructor with the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance, known for prescriptive grazing and land stewardship near Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge.

Aug 20, 2026

18:33
Then I'll let Aaron tell his view on it.
18:37
Yeah, I'll, I'll kinda just echo a lot of that.
18:39
I mean, we were, yeah, cow-calf.
18:41
We raised all our own hay.
18:43
We, I mean, we grazed for seven to eight months out of the year and then fed hay, fed the, up that hay the rest of the time.
18:50
Uh, we, I mean, we'd heard about Ranching for Profit before, but probably were never really super serious about it.
18:56
Thought, "Oh man, that, that costs a lot of money," or, "How can you get away for a full week at a time?" So I mean, we knew local ranchers who had been there before, and they, they, I mean, sang its praises really good, but really weren't quite ready for it yet.

21 MINS LATER

40:12
Y- if you do it right the first time you're gonna be, have a good f- footing all the way through to get started there.

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