Once monthly, usually the first Thursday of each month, the Billings Farm & Ranch Brokers meet to network, hear presentations on topics relative to the rural Montana land market, and to share their new listings as well as to discuss properties they are looking for on behalf of buyers. The group is made up of land brokers, agents, and other rural real estate professionals.
This month's meeting will be held remotely using Zoom. If you would like information and an invite to the meeting, contact any of the officers listed below.
This Month's Presenter: Shaelyn Bauer is the owner of H Open A Ranch Consulting and a MaiaGrazing Sales and Service Provider. Shaelyn earned a bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems – Livestock Production Emphasis from Montana State and is near completing her master’s degree in Land Resources and Environmental Science. She is originally from Ekalaka, where her family ranches and raises angus-composite genetics for the grass fed, low input producer. Shaelyn remains heavily involved in the family ranch. She, her husband Josh, and baby boy, Diehl, live on their 30 acres near Clyde Park.
An overview of how managed grazing, monitoring and recordkeeping can improve ecological and economic outcomes for ranches. Technology can also assist in the grazing decision making process. MaiaGrazing is a cloud based grazing software designed to help you be more profitable when conditions are good, as well as manage risk when conditions are bad. MaiaGrazing provides objective data about the position of your ranch under current rainfall conditions and allows you to forecast future conditions so you can make better and faster stocking rate decisions that benefit your bottom line as well as prevent over utilizing pastures.
Upcoming Meeting Presenters:
- Thursday, June 4 - Presenter has not yet been determined
Meeting Location: Remote - on Zoom
Meeting Dates for 2020:
- Thursday, January 2
- Thursday, February 6
- Thursday, March 5
- Cancelled - Wednesday, April 15 (Big Timber)
- Remote - Thursday, May 7
- Thursday, June 4
- Thursday, July 9
- Thursday, August 6
- September TBD (Big Timber)
- Thursday, October 1
- Thursday, November 5
For more information: contact any of our officers:
- President: Bryan Gentry - BSG Real Estate Solutions - 307-751-5378 - bsgfrc2015@gmail.com
- Vice President: Colter DeVries - Clark & Associates Land Brokers - 406-425-1027 - colter@clarklandbrokers.com
- Secretary/Treasurer: Andrew Rahn - Montana Land Source - 406-580-6882 - andy@rahnland.com