Grasslands Journal, Winter, 2020

MEET A RANCHER Julie Finigan Morris and Joe Morris
Owners & Founders of T.O. Cattle Company in San Juan Bautista, California
Describe your operation and ecosystem
T.O. Cattle Company operates on the central coast, in San Benito and
Monterey counties. We lease four different ranches totaling more than
10,000 acres. We are a cow-calf, stocker operation managing our herd
as well as cattle owned by others during winter months. We direct
market beef from our herd under the Morris Grassfed brand to happy
customers throughout the state and have been doing so for almost 30
years. We are one of the original direct-marketed 100% grassfed beef companies in California.

The ranches we manage are classic California landscapes: golden, grassy hills dotted with live oak trees. We also have brushy, coast ranges with deep forested canyons where redwood trees grow and native, perennial bunch
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