Padlock Ranch Company

Homer Scott started the Padlock Ranch with 3,000 acres and 300 cows in 1943.  Over the intervening years the Scott family has significantly increased the size of the ranch to where 55 employees raise and market over 12,000 calves a year.

The ranch headquarters is located at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains in north central Wyoming.  The ranch is divided into units which are spread from Hardin, Montana to Sheridan, Wyoming.   Elevations vary from nearly 9,000 feet on summer permits in the Bighorns Mountains to 3,600 feet on the Tongue River at Acme, Wyoming.

The ranch grazes cow-calf pairs on native grassland in Montana and Wyoming.  Grazing lands are a mixture of private and leased land located on or near the Crow Indian Reservation. 

In support of the grazing operation the ranch irrigates 5,000 acres of farmland.  Annual production is 11,000 tons of dry hay, 20,000 tons of corn silage, 15,000 tons of hay silage and 60,000 bushels of barley.  The production supports the winter feeding program and supplies our backgrounding feedlot.