He has been the general manager of his family-owned N-Bar Ranch located at Grass Range, Mont., since 1976. Under his management the N-Bar Ranch has become one of the largest producers of functional Angus seedstock for the commercial industry in the United States. He has developed some of the breed’s top genetics, including N Bar Emulation EXT, the nation’s leading sire for number of calves registered from 1996-1999, siring 26,923 registered calves during that period. He has been involved in a wide variety of grassroots efforts to develop food and farming systems that improve and sustain ecological, economic and social health.