Your stay Wyoming ranch stay with “Ranch Soup” is apt to be spent under wide blue skies scudded with white billowing clouds, sun-filled days, and comparatively little wind. Sunrises and sunsets are usually characterized by breathtaking deep rose and pink backdrops, crowned with beautiful starry nights. The richly painted foothills in the foreground in varying hues of red, sand, gray and green combine with the Big Horn Mountains to the east and the Absarokas to the west, with occasional glimpses of the Beartooth and Owl Mountains to the north and south. Place this scene on verdant green irrigated fields of alfalfa, barley, corn, sugar beets, and dry beans and you have the Big Horn Basin.
The heart of the American West, land of Buffalo Bill Cody, Jim Bridger, the Crow, Arapahoe and Shoshone nations. Joined with today`s hard-working farmers, cattle and sheep ranchers. Enjoyed by sightseers as they travel along the corridor between Rapid City and the Black Hills of South Dakota to the wonders of Teton and Yellowstone National Parks or between Canada and Montana to the more southern states of Colorado, Nebraska and Utah. Treasured by sportsmen and anglers alike, who visit the Big Horn Basin to hunt wild game and birds in the mountains, the river bottoms and the sagebrush and fish in the abundant waterways.
About The Ranch
Boreen Hay and Cattle is a busy working ranch and often described as "progressive" in its efforts to achieve agricultural productivity. Operations involve manufacture of it`s own bio-fuel ( Murphy`s Machines) , use of pod system irrigation (K-Line Irrigation © ), solar pumps for livestock watering, management intensive and rotational grazing, hydrolyzed fish in place of more traditional fertilizer applications (Neptune`s Harvest), and brewing and application of compost tea (Keep It Simple Compost Tea) over all of its irrigated lands in an effort to build the healthy biology in the soil. Most of our soil applications are applied through our pivot and pod irrigation system equipment.
The ranch operates under the ownership and management of Phil and Kate Boreen. It is a grass and alfalfa hay-base, and has raised winter wheat, barley, oats, and sorghum sudan grass. It consists of 754 acres of mostly irrigated ground with water flowing from reservoirs located 50 miles away in the Absaroka Mountains above Meeteetsee, Wyoming. Cattle you will see grazing are Hereford, Angus or a combination of the two breeds. The cattle graze both on the ranch and on public lands that border the ranch during the summer months. "Ranch Soup" is the guest enterprise part of Boreen Hay and Cattle. The name "Ranch Soup" comes from our conviction that just as a good soup, ranching and agriculture require a mix of complimentary and harmonious ingredients to provide a good result. In today`s farming and ranching enterprises, the challenge is to come up with the right recipe to be productive and successful.
Where Is "Ranch Soup?"
"Ranch Soup" is a part of Boreen Hay and Cattle Ranch and is located in the Big Horn Basin of northwestern Wyoming. We are fifty miles east of Cody. -Map- and just south of the town of Otto, Wyoming. We are centrally located to everything in the Big Horn Basin. At first glance, the map can be a little misleading. We are just 11 miles west of the town of Basin and 3 miles south of State Hwy. 30 - only 3/4s of a mile off the pavement. Yet the ranch itself adjoins tens of thousands of acres of public land. "Ranch Soup" stays are quiet and relaxing, yet easily accessible and conveniently located to all the Big Horn Basin has to offer!
