Pat Pfeil

Since 2004 Pat has represented the International Society for Range Management on the National Grazing Lands Board of Directors. Brady and Pat Pfeil are Natural Resource Managers for a 9th generation Florida Agricultural family. They have worked as partners in managing the Carlton family holdings in Florida since 1978 and Georgia since 2006. As such they have developed ranches (24,000 acres) and managed the Bar A Brangus registered herd, commercial cattle herds, citrus groves, bahia sod production, timber stands, vegetable, hay and seed production plus maintained a viable wildlife population providing for the Carlton family hunting tradition. Pat mainly oversaw the cattle production and grazing management along with all record keeping. The Pfeil’s feel blessed to work for a Christian family that believed in being good Stewards of the land God entrusted to them. This willingness to sustain the environment along with the financial future for the next generation lead to them receiving the Florida Department of Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Award and being a NCBA Region II -ESAP winner.

Today they manage less land and cattle in Florida for the Carlton family plus a pine and wildlife Plantation in Georgia. They spend time with their 3 sons and 4 grandsons. First son is John and his 3 boys in Arcadia Florida. John works for Bethel Farms and the new TriYield Company that is having great impacts in the Florida citrus industry. Then with Brad and family in Sabinal, Texas, who received a Rangeland Ecology Degree from Texas A & M and now is the manager of Two Rivers Ranch. Orin, their third son assist his father in Georgia during hunting season and works at Down Home Ranch in Elgin Texas part of the year. Pat considers herself very blessed to have been allowed to help her husband manage some of God’s creation and to have passed that love of the land on to the next generation.

Pat has served in the following capacities:

• Florida Grazing Lands Coalition: Board Representative and Chair
• Florida Section of SRM: Founding member, President and Counsel Member
• Society Range Management: PPLC and GLCI committee
• Florida Cattlemen’s Association: Research Committee, Animal Health Committee, Co-Chair of Environmental Committee and S.P.A. Subcommittee Chair
• DeSoto County Cattlewomen’s Association: President
• Florida Brangus Breeders Association: Founding member, Secretary, Vice President and President
• Sunday School teacher in the Baptist Church for 30 years
• 4H Community Club Leader for 12 years and Beef Club Leader for 5 years