Montana Rancher Feature – Suze Bohleen from Wilsall

This week’s Montana Rancher Feature highlights Suzanne (Suze) Bohleen from Wilsall. Suze is in her 40th year as a cattle buyer and is frequently active in sharing beef education with youth across the state.

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Suze Bohleen WilsallWhat is your role in the Montana ranching community? For the past 40 years, I have been in the business as a cattle buyer. I also manage cattle for out of state owners as they background cattle and then run them on grass before they take them to feedlots in the Midwest. In my spare time, I am the Beef Education Chair for the Montana CattleWomen. I work with teachers, educators and other Ag groups to bring Ag, especially beef, information and experiences to the classroom and afterschool experiences. I also am a volunteer for the Park County CASA program.

How is your family involved in the Montana ranching community? My mother still has the ranch she inherited in CA and my sister and brother-in-law, Chris and Dan Byrd, and their son, Ty Byrd, are Byrd Cattle Co of Red Bluff, CA, a registered Angus outfit.

I conserve water or work to ensure good water quality on my ranch by… When we had the ranch, we installed more efficient livestock watering systems and irrigation systems.

My favorite cut of beef is… Old Fashioned Pot Roast with vegetables from my garden

My favorite quote is… “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau”

When I’m not ranching, I like to… Watch my Horses run at some Barrel Races

My favorite thing about being a part of the Montana ranching community is… I love how our community takes care of each other and supports each other.

I think we need more young people involved in ranching because… We are all getting older.

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I’m working to create healthy soil on my ranch by… Controlled grazing, and weed spraying.

Proper handling and welfare of livestock is important to me because… Safety first for our animals and everybody who works around them.

I work to provide for wildlife habitat on my ranch by… We must have done a good job, we had Moose, Elk, and Deer on our place. We allowed controlled hunting (with written permission).

What would you like beef customers to know about your role in the ranching community? I love BEEF, and it’s important to give them a great piece of BEEF, too.