W.T. Waggoner Ranch
“One fence around 875 square miles. We did the math on what's moving inside it.”
Optimized for sovereignty, survivability, and a new economics.
91% deeded — 510,527 of 560,000 acres owned outright.src
You own the dirt. CacheCow makes the herd on it just as much yours — every pattern recorded, nothing dependent on a person who might leave.
~30 acres to feed one cow (weak stocking rate). The sparser the range, the thinner the margin when an animal goes quiet.src⚠
Early detection turns the harshest survivability number around: respiratory trouble caught days sooner is the difference between a sick cow and a dead one, exactly where the country gives you no second chances.
~6,800 head sets the size of the preventable-loss pool.src⚠
Divide the losses, multiply the survivors: every animal that doesn't die to a disease we flagged early is value that compounds back into the operation.
Conservatively, counting only the cattle respiratory disease would otherwise kill, caught early enough to save. It is the floor, not the ceiling: treatment cost, shrink, and lost weight are real too, and left out on purpose.
Over 800 square miles under one fence, the largest in Texas. 6,800 head is 6,800 heartbeats we'd learn by name: hear the cough three days before the vet would, and never lose a calf to weather we already saw coming.
- 01The Land Report · 2026-01 — Stan Kroenke — #1 on the Land Report 100
- 02Waggoner Ranch / Land Report · 2026 — W.T. Waggoner Ranch — 560,000 ac under one fence⚠ ~6,800-head figure is from older video reporting; treated as approximate.
- 03Texas A&M AgriLife — Managing livestock stocking rates on rangeland⚠ No Rolling-Plains-specific rate published; our ~30 ac/AU is interpolated and flagged.
- 04USDA APHIS NAHMS · 2015 — Adult cattle annual death rate ~2%
- 05USDA NASS · 2011 — Cattle Death Loss — 4.3% of inventory; respiratory disease 28% of non-predator loss⚠ USDA's detailed Cattle Death Loss report has not been reissued since 2011; we do not imply newer national cause-tables exist.
- 06Translational Animal Science (Oxford) · 2025 — Randomized feedlot trial: automated early BRD detection cut untreated deaths ~75% and total fallouts ~27%, treating ~3.7 days earlier⚠ Several authors are employed by Merck Animal Health, which makes the tested device. We cite the statistically-significant mortality/fallout figures, not the marginal per-head economic figure (P=0.06).
- 07CattleFax (via NCBA) · 2026-02 — 2026 full-year feeder average forecast ~$335/cwt (most conservative benchmark)