Pitchfork Ranch - The Pitchfork Today

The Pitchfork Today

The cowboys work the range in a manner consistent with their forebears who first rode for the brand in the 1880s. The ranch also produces the “Pitchfork Gray”, a gray horse with a black mane and tail – has now become as synonymous with the ranch as the brand itself. For a century, the Pitchfork's profits and losses were affected only by the weather and the price of cattle. The ranch is now a diversified modern agricultural business: cattle ranching, hunting for deer, boar, and game birds, oil exploration (with finds in the Tannehill sands area), and farming. Helicopters and computers are as common at the Pitchfork as traditional ropes and saddles. The Pitchfork hands, however, still eat at the same table as did the cowboys of 1900. The ranch manager is Ron Lane, who assumed duties in 2007, upon Moorhouse’s retirement.