Deseret Ranches
Also Known as the Mormon Ranch. Deseret Ranches is what we long time Floridians call the Mormon Ranch. At about 295,000 acres, it is one of the largest cow-calf cattle ranches in the United States. It is 10 times larger than Walt Disney World and has been in Central Florida a lot longer.
chaosagent, steven scharf,
What a great thread. Brings back memories of my much younger days growing up in Central Florida.
My Step Father was a Soil Conservation Agent in North Central Florida and worked with many ranchers to improve their soil and grasses. One of the side benefits was that he got to fish in some of the private lakes and ponds on the ranches.
Later, in 1960, I worked at the airport in Melbourne. The Foreman from the Mormon Ranch rented a small airplane, a Cessna, with pilot, to fly him over the ranch so he could see where the cattle were and to estimate how many.
At that time locating and counting cattle was done on horseback so doing it from above might have been easier as a lot of the ranch, near the river is wet and soggy.
I don’t know that he did it again.
Anyway, this thread brings back memories of growing up in a small town in Florida during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Farming and Ranching, yeah! Either work on a farm or join the military. And I did, joined the Navy at 17 yrs old.