Kendall Eisele

Kendall Eisele is a graduate of The University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources, where she received her B.S. in Agriculture Business and her M.S. in Agriculture Economics. Kendall lives in Cheyenne, WY where her and her family run 500 head of Red and Black Angus cow-calf pairs, 450 head of yearling stockers, and a custom haying operation on the historic King Ranch Company. The King Ranch was recognized in 2015 for the Leopold Conservation Award,  Wyoming Stock Growers Environmental Stewardship Award, and most recently the Society for Range Management Chuck Jarecki Rancher Land Stewardship Award. 

 

After graduation, she wanted to get more involved in the future of Wyoming agriculture beyond the ranch operation. She has had the opportunity to serve as a member to the Wyoming Board of Agriculture, a past President of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association's Young Producers Assembly, an ag industry representative on the Wyoming Seat Belt Coalition, and an executive officer of National Sigma Alpha Agriculture Sorority.

 

Kendall has had some exciting opportunities since completing her graduate degree. Kendall joined the UW CALSNR Ecosystem Science & Management Department from 2017-2018 on a research team to model economic impacts of sage grouse conservation on public and private land cattle ranches. Her input from her graduate thesis developing enterprise budgets and as a public and private lands rancher gave insight into the development of the budgets for that project. She continually works on research activities and projects including USDA-ARS High Plains Grasslands Research Station livestock grazing studies where she and King Ranch provide livestock for the research and joined other Wyoming ranches with the "Metrics, Management, and Monitoring: An Investigation of Pasture and Rangeland Soil Health and its Drivers". Currently, she enjoys serving on the inaugural UW CALSNR Ag & Applied Economics Department Alumni & Industry Engagement Network and as an Advisory Committee member to the UW - Wyoming Natural Diversity Database (WYNDD). 

 

Kendall emphasizes that her time at the university and her graduate degree help with her career path every single day. This includes her bookkeeping and office management of the King Ranch, rangeland management for her livestock, and constantly communicating the economic impacts the ag industry faces on a local, state, and national levels.  She provides ranch tours to the public in order to show the management practices, challenges, and innovations that come with cattle ranching in the west, an operation located at the edge the city of Cheyenne, and being a young female in ag production. Her degree helped focus on what she loved most - investigate ways to expand the operation's land base while keeping the legacy of the Eisele/King family intact and produce the best beef cattle on the land to fulfill today's consumer demands.