YA BUSINESS MENTORSHIP NETWORK – Meet a Mentor: Bluesette Campbell

Check out one of the mentors available for mentorship in this year’s BMN cohort. Want to read more? Head over to our BMN Blog for more mentorship stories. 

Meet a Mentor: Bluesette Campbell of B-C Ranch in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan

Bluesette Campbell grew up on a sheep ranch in south central Montana. She now lives on and is an owner of the B-C Ranch Inc., a third-generation cattle ranch near Meadow Lake, SK, with her husband, Mark.  They have two boys, Andrew (22) and Birch (19).  For over 20 years, they have successfully been in business with Mark’s brother, Scott, and their parents, Don and Bev Campbell. This experience has inspired her to become a Holistic Management educator, consultant and mentor. Bluesette’s interests lie strongly in human resource and team development bolstered by a foundation of lived experience in ranch management, regenerative grazing principles and financial planning.  When she is not ranching or teaching, you will probably catch her volunteering, gardening unconventionally, practicing chemistry in the kitchen or running just because she can.

Production: B-C Ranch is a 4000-acre cattle ranch and runs about 700 cow/calf pairs. They run a long yearling operation that backgrounds calves and grasses them until the following Fall. They raise their own bulls and keep extra-age breeding heifers, and support 3 families without off-farm income. As part of the Holistic Management Canada network, Bluesette consults/educates in regenerative ag practices, has a 9-month internship program that they have been offering for over a decade, and offers open gates and field days during the growing seasons.

Years of farming experience: 20+

Areas of mentorship: Holistic management, goal setting, financial planning and follow through, land management, grazing planning, crop planning, risk management and more

Read a blog post from Bluesette’s past mentee Kole of Tuff Ranching here and find out more about how he used mentorship to help guide him through everything from data collection to using a family-centred approach to ranching last year!