Since 1992, Alberta Beef Producers (ABP) has recognized farms and ranches across the province whose natural resource stewardship practices contribute to the environment and enhance productivity and profitability.
Alberta Beef Producers, Ducks Unlimited Canada, and the Nature Conservancy of Canada are pleased to announce Wray Ranch and the Wray family as the recipients of the 2023 Environmental Stewardship Award.
Ask the Wray family about their ranch, and it quickly becomes clear that everything they do is shaped by a deep reverence for the land.
This perspective shines through whether they’re touring visitors in pastures that overlook a dramatic coulee, moving cattle to a new paddock, or reviewing production data at the kitchen table.
“Being out on the landscape, being engaged with nature is very rewarding,” says Doug Wray, the third generation of his family to manage this ranch west of Irricana, Alberta.
“We get to see life cycles, we get to see calves born, reach maturity, become cows in the herd. It’s a very natural world to live in, to have a hand in all of that.”
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