Hwy 12 , Lavina, MT 59046(Golden Valley County)

The Green Hills Ranch is located west of Lavina, MT and is accessed by following Highway 12. Lavina is a small town with limited services, but does provide a gas station, post office, caf and bar. Billings, the largest city in Montana is located approximately 50 miles southeast of the Green Hills Ranch and is the major trade center for area ranchers. Billings has two excellent hospitals, two universities, a commercial airport serviced by several major airlines and all the services of a major city to include Montanas best restaurants and shopping.

Improvements:

As you drive into the headquarters of the Green Hills Ranch you have to be impressed with the ranch home and support buildings as they are very well kept. The 4000 square foot home and double attached garage is the focal point surrounded by large lawns and protected from the west winds by a well designed shelterbelt. The house has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, office, mud room, large living and dining room along with a well designed beautiful modern kitchen that looks out over a large garden spot with vistas of the river bottom meadows and large cottonwood trees.

The shop/calving barn combination is a very unique building that contains a bunkhouse for ease of checking heifers during calving season and has an attached meat cutting room with walk in cooler and meat smoker. Attached to the calving barn is a well designed set of corrals, working alley and chute. During calving season if weather requires there is an old sheep shed that works extremely well to house cow calf pairs till the new born calves are ready to go outside. An additional small shop and storage shed round out the ranch improvements.

General Operation:

The Green Hills Ranch is presently being run as a commercial cow calf operation. Ranch owners Ellis and Betty Doney have a reputation Angus herd and normally run 200 cow calf pairs. The cowherd starts out the year near the headquarters where they are easy to feed and care for. As calving time approaches they can be brought into the extensive corral setup and through the calving barn if the weather requires it. After branding and summer approaches cattle are trailed out to the native range pastures where they spend the summer. Calves are weaned and shipped in early fall and the cowherd is moved to river bottom pasture and hay meadows.

Water Resources:

Green Hills Ranch has excellent water rights from both Deadmans Basin and the Musselshell River, for irrigation purposes; the July 17, 1884 Musselshell Right is one of the rivers earliest. There are several springs and wells on the ranch with a pipeline to several pastures for stock water as well as several small reservoirs; the Musselshell River flows through the ranch for over a mile.

Other:

Taxes: $5263