Our Ranchers
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Borda Land and Sheep Co.
The Basque sheep herding tradition is alive and well in Northern Nevada. In 1914, Raymond Borda, Ted Borda’s grandfather, immigrated from the French Pyrenees Mountains, taking a job herding sheep for his Brother-in-Law in Carson Valley. He eventually founded his own sheep ranch there in 1921.
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Talbott Sheep Company
The Talbott family has been raising sheep in California and Nevada since the early 1900s, when Raymond Talbott’s father Ramon Artadi first arrived in the Reno, Nevada area from Bilbao, Spain. Raymond was 12 years old when they came, and his father went to work herding sheep for the Talbott family. When his father returned to Spain a couple years later …
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Campbell Hansmire Sheep
Randy Campbell seemed to be born to be a sheepman, growing up in a sheep ranching family and working alongside his father Ervin and grandfather Avery on the Campbell Brothers Ranch near Loma, Colorado. When he was in middle school, Randy was already responsible for trailing thousands of sheep down the highway from Redvale to Ophir. …
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Theos Swallow Fork Ranch
The Theos name and Swallow Fork Ranch are a legacy in Northwestern Colorado where herded bands of sheep have been a tradition for more than a century. The Theos family exclusively raises sheep, grazing them from lower elevation winter country to high elevation mountain pastures in the summer. At home on Colorado’s Western Slope …
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Lazy 3X Sheep Company
The Lazy 3X Sheep Company is part of a diversified ranching operation owned and operated by Mark and Polly Hill. They believe sheep and cattle are complementary in their grazing strategies and agricultural business model. Their success has been based on tireless work in breeding and management of their herds, resulting in high quality lamb and fine wool …
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Etchart Livestock
The Etchart Livestock operation began with Martin Etchart, a French-Basque immigrant, who came to the Uncompahgre Valley in western Colorado to herd sheep in 1947. From the Pyrenees Mountain region in France, he was recruited following WWII, when there were no jobs, no money and little opportunity …
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Two Bar Sheep Company
The Raftopoulos family's sheep ranching roots date back to the late 1920’s when Steve’s mother, Georgia Vlahos, and her husband at the time, homesteaded near Craig, Colorado. They came from the central mountains of Greece, the Roumeli area and the village …
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Siddoway Sheep Company - Terreton, Idaho
Jeff and Cindy Siddoway are part of a multi-generation Idaho sheep ranch. Their children — Billie, Jodie and J.C. — are the fifth generation, and their grandchildren are the sixth generation. Jeff’s great grandfather, James William Siddoway, ad his brother came to the upper Snake River
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