Animals On the Ranch

With these longest days of summer upon us, the majority of Hutchinson Ranch cows are now in their summer grazing pastures in the San Luis Valley and Marshall Pass, and the fields on the ranch are quickly growing tall, destined to be next winter’s hay crop. Life on the ranch, however, doesn’t slow down, but … Read more

The Irrigation Ditches Are On!  A Rancher’s Rite of Spring

Water is at the heart of any agricultural community.  Here in our mountain valley, as the weather warms the land, a true rite of spring for the area’s ranches, and indeed all of us, is when the pastures begin greening up and the irrigation ditches begin to flow. In April, right as the area’s ditches … Read more