Bar T Bar Facts
The Bar T Bar Ranch, Inc., is a Subchapter S Corporation owned and operated by Bob and Judy Prosser. An Arizona agribusiness since 1924, Judy Prosser represents the third generation of the Chilson family.
Cattle Operation
800 commercial cows, 800 replacement heifers
400 registered Balancer, Angus, & Gelbvieh cows
Brands
Bar T Bar owns 3V’s, 41, Cross, –T–. We use the Cross on the right hip of the registered cattle and bulls, and the –T– on the right side of our commercial cattle.
Improvements
587 miles of fence
41 miles of buried pipeline
73 steel and concrete drinking tubs
47 miles of canals and ditches
286 earthen reservoirs and stock ponds
19 working corrals and shipping facilities
5 line camps
68 pastures, 3 cell-grazing systems with 34 paddocks
15 holding traps
Water Resources
The Bar T Bar owns rights to 1,000 acre-feet of surface water for irrigation, stock ponds, and flood control. This water is stored in Tremaine and Soldier Annex Lakes. We also have 19 deep wells (450–1,000 feet).
Winter Range
Northern: Primary grasses include blue grama, black grama, galleta, alkalai sacaton, needle and thread, and vine mesquite; primary browse includes four-wing saltbush, shadscale, Bigelow sage, and Mormon tea.
Southern: Primary grasses include blue grama, black grama, squirreltail, sand dropseed, and needle and thread; primary browse includes winterfat, Bigelow sage, four-wing saltbush, and Mormon tea.
Summer Range
Low elevation: Grasses include blue grama, western wheatgrass, crested wheatgrass, squirreltail, Junegrass, and mutton grass; browses include cliff rose, winterfat, four-wing saltbush, mountain mahogany, and four o’clock.
High elevation: Grasses include Arizona fescue, western wheatgrass, mountain muhley, fringed brome grass, mutton grass, Kentucky bluegrass, intermediate wheatgrass, crested wheatgrass, orchard grass, and black and pine dropseed; other forages include Gambel’s oak, yellow sweetclover, pea vine, cliffrose, sages, bur clover, and annual forbs.