Abbey’s passions include education, spreading the word on soil health, and becoming a leader in
regenerative agriculture. She is romancing the idea of creating a profitable regenerative ranch
for her family members.
Abbey grew up as the fourth generation on a ranch in Mission Valley near Ingomar and attended
school in Hysham. After receiving her associate degree in Business Management, she married
Ryan Bruski and moved to the Bruski Ranch near Ekalaka. They have three beautiful children.
When asked what makes ranching fun, she replied, “challenging paradigms, making observations
and adapting.” EMRA brings networking, a healthy place to think outside the box, and a
community to this firecracker of a rancher. Abbey is a driving force behind EMRA!

Casey is the fourth generation on the family ranch near Brusett Montana. After attending college
at Montana State University, he worked in other places seeing many parts of Montana. Working
with a diversity of people before returning to the ranch in 2010 was a rich experience and helped Casey’s personal and professional development. When asked what excites him about ranched Casey replied, “the possibilities of regenerating the land and creating opportunities for business and people.”
For Casey, EMRA is a community of people who want to do a better job of stewarding the land
and revitalizing rural America.

Daniel, his wife, Jenna, and 3 littles ranch near Lindsey on Daniel’s family ranch. They raise goats.  Everything starts in our home. From our passion to follow Jesus to our love of stewarding His creation. Here are some of the ways we cultivate soil health in our home. We use mulch and winter cover crops in our garden to promote good soil function and continue capturing solar energy.

On the ranch we use short duration(1-2days) and long recovery(12+mo) grazing management to give our 400 hd meat goat herd the least exposure to internal parasites. More importantly this style gives our perennial forages the ability to express their full potential by setting their roots deep, exudating solar energy to the surrounding soil biology and building more above ground biomass to help cover our sandy loam soil. The goats naturally stay together in one tight group which brings a nice smashing effect to the leftover old forages still standing, laying it down to contact the soil. This allows the soil biology to cycle it and build up our shallow topsoil.

We are also working toward raising healthy cover crops to benefit the goats and the land. Goats are not grazers, but browsers so prefer broadleaf plants over grasses. Multiple specie forage crops have brought a lot of opportunities to us like extending the length of growing season on the land. With the mild winters we’ve been experiencing we really enjoy seeing green cereal rye still photosynthesizing in January.

Colin believes in the capabilities of the soil and is willing to try new things.

Levi, along with his brother Luke Foreman, operate the Cecil Brown Ranch near Knowlton,
Montana. The ranch was started by his grandfather. Levi spent ten years as an electronic
engineer at California’s Sandia National Laboratories.
Levi is a life-long learner, always looking for ways of applying what he’s learned. Some of the
most impactful workshops he’s attended have been the Bud Williams low-stress livestock
handling and the Sieben Ranch winter grazing workshop.
Being active in the agricultural community is important to Levi. He’s on the Montana Farm
Bureau Federation Resource Management, Environment and Technology Committee and the
Montana Farmers Union Board of Directors.
Through his quiet manner, Levi makes bold contributions to the EMRA Board of Directors.