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For more than 70 years we have farmed and ranched this beautiful landscape. With a focus on raising high-quality calves and increasing the productive capacity of the land, we are proud to carry on Florida’s ranching heritage.
Deseret Ranches (/ ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ⓘ) [1] refers to the ranching operations of the Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Central Florida. The Ranches include several organizations, including Deseret Ranches of Florida, Deseret Cattle and Citrus, Taylor Creek Management, East Central ...
We have been part of Central Florida since 1950, and we value our role as a community partner and environmental steward. The Ranch sets and follows lofty standards and places importance on family, community, and tradition. We strive to be world-class in all we do, from cattle production to environmental protection to treatment of our employees.
With decades of effort, Deseret has created a vibrant, world-class operation for beef cattle, citrus, and timber, while carefully managing for the long-term viability of wildlife populations. As a longtime steward and landowner in Central Florida, we care deeply about this place.
CLOUD, Florida — Both in formal publications and informal conversations, one of the largest cow-calf ranching operations in the country is known by a number of names — Deseret Ranches of Florida, Deseret Cattle and Citrus, or sometimes simply “Deseret” or “the Ranch.”
The cattle crowd along the barbed-wire fence when the bus pulls up at Deseret Ranches. (Photo: Bonnie Gross) Far from the world of beaches and tiki bars, there is a Florida of cowboys on horseback and cattle grazing on vast pastures.
Deseret Ranches is what we long time Floridians call the Mormon Ranch. At about 295,000 acres, it is one of the largest cattle ranches in the United States. It is 10 times larger than Walt Disney World and has been in Central Florida a lot longer.
The faith is now Florida’s biggest landowner, controlling well above 2% of its landmass, including an enormous collection of pasturelands outside resort-rich Orlando called Deseret Ranches and a...
Maneuvering to get ahead of limitations the voters may impose, Deseret Ranches is exploring a move that could boost by two-thirds the geographic size of Orlando, even though the church subsidiary...
At Deseret, we are farmers and ranchers. We have been ranching in Florida for more than seven decades. We love to grow things. We think agriculture is a noble pursuit, and we are proud to be part of humanity’s rich heritage of working the land to put food on our tables. We help feed the world.