Environmentally Sustainable
The ranch is a two-time winner of the South Dakota Outstanding Tree Farmer award in recognition for land stewardship.
Land & Animal Care
Our Practices
Good Stewardship
We work to be good stewards of the land and our animals.
Wood Ranch management centers on healthy pasture, wildlife habitat, rotational grazing, and humane handling of cattle raised in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Wildlife Friendly
The ranch supports native fauna including elk, birds, badgers, spotted skunks, mule deer, and other indigenous wildlife.
Native Grasslands
Rolling mixed-grass prairie gives cattle room to roam while managed rotation allows pasture recovery.
Raised in America
W9 Beef is Dakota beef raised on Black Hills pasture and never finished in a feedlot.
Wildlife Friendly
Managed for cattle and native wildlife.
Wood Ranch is a haven for native fauna including burrowing owls, grouse, red-tailed hawks, western meadow larks, magpies, gophers, badgers, spotted skunks, mule deer, and herds of Rocky Mountain elk.
The land is managed intentionally to sustain wildlife habitat with elk-friendly fencing, protective tree coverage, water access, and wildlife grazing.
Native Grasslands
Rotational grazing supports pasture recovery.
The ranch includes rolling pasture of undisturbed native mixed-grass prairie that thrives in the drier climate of the Southern Black Hills. The livestock is rotated through pastures to allow for recovery and long-term land management.
Native grasses include blue grama, needlegrass, globemallow, spiderwort, and prairie coneflower. Other abundant plants include soapweed yucca, western wallflower, and black-eyed susans.
No Feedlots
Pasture comes first.
W9 cattle graze their entire lives in the beautiful Black Hills region and never step a hoof in a feedlot. They have room to roam, shelter in ponderosa pine forests, and access to plentiful water.
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