Summer 2026 State of the Ranch Report

🐺 STATE OF THE RANCH | SUMMER 2026

June through August was one of those quarters where it felt like a hundred different things were happening at once — and looking back, they pretty much were.

🥩 This quarter, 267.24 pounds of Dos Lobos meat made its way from our ranch to local tables:

• 142.65 lb of grass-finished Dexter beef
• 108.91 lb of Kunekune pork
• 15.68 lb of pasture-raised turkey

And we did that while spending a good chunk of the summer sold out of pork and working with a naturally limited supply of Dexter beef.

🐷 Our Kunekune program kept growing, with new genetics arriving, another litter on the ground, young pigs putting up some impressive growth numbers, and another round of Igenity testing underway.

🌱 Out in the pasture, several years of rotational grazing, multispecies livestock, cover crops, bale grazing and biological inputs are starting to show up in the numbers. Our latest soil test came back recommending no N-P-K fertilizer needed. (We weren't using it anyway, this is just an automatic recommendation from the soil testing company). It's cool to see that our soil tests are so good that even the soil test company say... "Nah, you're good!"

💻 Online, things really started moving. Google organic traffic climbed past 600 clicks in 28 days, our average search position pushed toward page one, and more people are finding us for searches like local beef, pasture-raised pork and Kunekune pigs.

📬 Our email community has grown to more than 700 subscribers, while the website continues expanding with livestock education, regenerative agriculture resources, workshops, recipes and better ways to connect with the ranch.

🎓 We also continued growing the education side of Dos Lobos — from on-farm workshops to getting ready to tell our regenerative agriculture story at the Women in Ag Conference in Fort Worth.

And heading into fall?

More pork. Thanksgiving turkeys. More recipes and education. More genetic selection. More soil improvement. And a whole lot more work figuring out just how much food we can responsibly produce from these little 10 acres.

Not bad for a place that started with absolutely no idea what we were doing. 😂

Here’s to the next quarter. 🐺🌱🥩

Heather & Richard
Dos Lobos Ranch | Wise County, Texas