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Padlock Ranch: Manage To Avoid A Fire Sale

The 70-year-old Padlock Ranch sprawls across nearly 500,000 acres in Wyoming and Montana. After losing 80,000 acres of rangeland to wildfire last year, and suffering from ongoing drought, an optimistic Trey Patterson, Padlock’s chief operations officer, says the outfit has the tools to deal with the challenges built into its production plan.

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