Walt Davis: Successful Cattle Production

Walt Davis, known for his book How to Not Go Broke Ranching, will share a lifetime of valuable ranching experience. He was born into a west Texas ranching family in 1938 which gave him a front-row seat to the extreme drought of the 1950s. Once Walt graduated from college in 1961, he took over management of a family ranch in southeast Oklahoma and set out to increase production. In a few short years, a once profitable ranch was near the edge of bankruptcy. With no other choice, Walt changed his management strategy to one that offered more consistent profits. Hand in hand, these changes led to healthier land, hardier stock, and more enjoyment running the operation. For the last twenty years or so, Walt’s successful, biological approach to ranching in Texas and Oklahoma has led to lots of work with landowners, ranchers, and others as a management consultant, advisor and teacher. Walt Davis spent 50-plus years as a working rancher with interests in west Texas and in southeast Oklahoma. Af