Jul 20, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min · 15 segments
Lloyd was charged with making the High Lonesome mountain ranch profitable! We discuss how he has managed to increase ranch utilization, create hardy low input cows that thrive there, and so much more!…
Lloyd CalvertGuestJaredHostBut I'm curious, is this like a family place? What's the history of this place? Has it been around a long time? Is it owned deeded acres, government leases? What's kind of the history of the place?
Its history was it started as a guest hunting ranch, I believe in the late 80s and early 90s.
And it's kind of an accumulation of old homesteads and private parcels that were anchor properties to the allotments.
Then in about 2019 to 2020, maybe even a little earlier than that, it started shifting towards this working ranch with a regenerative conservation vision.
What kind of transformations? Yeah, what's that look like?
They, they really adopted the, the more basic practices of, of regenerative agriculture.
So smaller electric fence paddocks in the, in the draws where we had the perennial creeks and the watersheds.
And there was a lot of the understanding of animals that was lacking in a lot of the how to really utilize this kind of land, which we're really discovering.
So, so when I came on, I designed a system where we would start on the desert and llama and walk the cows back to DeBeck each year as a general concept.
We could go both directions, but it really relies on the desert ground and Loma being the wintering ground, which is a great reduction in hay needs and inputs.
So So one of the downsides of that kind of paddock management is the cows don't really learn to travel and pair up and sort of fend for themselves, contribute to their own success.
But I'm curious, is this like a family place? What's the history of this place? Has it been around a long time? Is it owned deeded acres, government leases? What's kind of the history of the place?
Its history was it started as a guest hunting ranch, I believe in the late 80s and early 90s.
And it's kind of an accumulation of old homesteads and private parcels that were anchor properties to the allotments.
Then in about 2019 to 2020, maybe even a little earlier than that, it started shifting towards this working ranch with a regenerative conservation vision.
What kind of transformations? Yeah, what's that look like?
They, they really adopted the, the more basic practices of, of regenerative agriculture.
So smaller electric fence paddocks in the, in the draws where we had the perennial creeks and the watersheds.
And there was a lot of the understanding of animals that was lacking in a lot of the how to really utilize this kind of land, which we're really discovering.
So, so when I came on, I designed a system where we would start on the desert and llama and walk the cows back to DeBeck each year as a general concept.
We could go both directions, but it really relies on the desert ground and Loma being the wintering ground, which is a great reduction in hay needs and inputs.
So So one of the downsides of that kind of paddock management is the cows don't really learn to travel and pair up and sort of fend for themselves, contribute to their own success.
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