North State Stocker Ranch is a beef cattle yearling/stocker operation in the northern Sacramento Valley of California. The ranch typically purchases 300 head of 8 to 9 month old weaned steers in late autumn weighing around 530 pounds and grows them out on grass to about 800 pounds on owned pasture over the course of six months.
Funding for development of this scenario was provided in part by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.