The Reeves County seat, just up the road from our fields — cantaloupe country, cowboy country, and our nearest neighbor.
Pecos is the largest city and county seat of Reeves County, set where US-285 meets Interstate 20 and the Pecos River bends south. It's named for the river, which gives the whole region its character, and downtown still carries the shape of a Texas & Pacific depot town — Pecos was organized around the railroad in the early 1880s, when the county was carved out of old Pecos County in 1883.
Today it's a regional hub for ranching, oil and gas, and what's left of the area's historic irrigated agriculture. It's also our closest town, and most of our hay headed east goes through here.
Pecos claims the honor of the world's first organized rodeo, held on the Fourth of July, 1883. The West of the Pecos Rodeo has run every summer since — it's hard to talk about this town without also talking about horses, cattle, and the people who work them.
The other pillar of Pecos agriculture is the famous Pecos Cantaloupe, a sweet, sandy-soiled melon grown here since the early 20th century. By the 1940s, one grower alone — M.L. Todd — was shipping more than 40,000 crates a year, and by the late 1950s growers were working over 2,000 acres of melons across Reeves and Pecos counties. The same irrigation wells that once grew those cantaloupes water the alfalfa today.
From our fields in Saragosa to Pecos is about twenty-five minutes up I-20. Ray knows that road well — he runs it any time there's a load headed that way, and plenty of Reeves County horses and cattle are already eating our hay.
If you're feeding horses near the Pecos River bottom, running a few head of cattle in the county, keeping show stock for the West of the Pecos Rodeo, or putting up a goat or two in the backyard, we can get you premium custom alfalfa hay that has never been far from the field where it grew. Multiple cuttings through the season, mid-sized square bales, forage testing on request.
Give Ray a call or send a quick email. We'll tell you what's on hand, what's coming in the next cutting, and when we can get a load to you. No pressure, no guessing.