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16 | RACING TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL RANCH
As a first generation rancher in North Carolina, Taylor Moyer
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60 | HONORING OUR GOOD FRIEND BILL SCHERMER
A dedicated family man, cattleman, businessman, and
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By Sarah Hill
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As a first-generation rancher in North Carolina,
Taylor Moyer has taken a different path
to fulfilling his dreams.
ot everyone is fortunate enough
to be born into a cattle ranch fam
ily. Taylor Moyer was born into
an agricultural family, but cir
cumstances and his life’s journey
manifested with him being able
to build his own cattle operation,
Ridgeview Land & Cattle, near
Marshville, N.C.
Moyer grew up in Vermont on a
beef cattle operation that also had
an apple orchard. His mother’s fam
ily owns Battleview Orchards, the
oldest apple orchard in operation
in New Jersey, which was founded
in 1906. His father’s family owns
Oakmulgee Dairy in Virginia, the
oldest dairy in that state that’s still
in operation, founded in 1895.
By fourth grade, Moyer was
showing beef cattle and tagging
along on trips with his dad to buy
stocker cattle. His family purchased
another cattle farm, rotationally
grazing cattle in the fertile valleys
of Vermont. As Moyer grew up, so
did his interest in the cattle indus
try, leading him to intern on a Colo
rado ranch for multiple summers in
high school.
However, his parents decided to
sell their farm when Moyer was a
junior in high school, closing the
door on his opportunity to return to
his family’s operation.
“That’s how I was raised, but I
wasn’t hungry for it,” Taylor Moyer
said. “I left my small town to pursue
mechanical engineering instead, and
I didn’t realize I loved agriculture
to Build a
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until I’d left it behind.”
Since eighth grade, Moyer had
wanted to land a job with NASCAR.
He took engineering classes in high
school, learning the power of CAD
as a tool to design.
“My best friend raced, so we were
always working on and building go-
karts, four-wheelers, and snowmo
biles,” he said. “We loved tinkering,
welding, dreaming, and problem
solving.”
Moyer also saw the consolidation
in the agriculture industry and de
cided it was going to be much eas
ier to become an engineer than a
first-generation farmer.
“Everyone told me that I couldn’t
make a living in agriculture,” Moy
er said. “I don’t think anyone meant
that in a negative way, just that it’s
going to take a lot of hard work to
climb that mountain.”
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THE DREAM JOB
After college, Moyer landed a job
at Hendrick Motorsports, working
his way up to a race engineering
position, the second highest role in
the team. He was a race engineer
for five seasons for drivers includ
ing Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne,
and William Byron.
“We won five or six NASCAR
championships in my tenure at Hen
drick, and the Brickyard 500 in 2017
with Kasey Kahne,” he said. “After
the 2018 season, I was promoted to
crew chief on the JR Motorsports
team, working with 16 drivers over
five more seasons including Zane
Smith, Josh Berry, Ryan Preece,
and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.”
Moyer’s
high-powered
career
allowed him to get into investing
at age 23, naming an investing ac
count “future farm account.” By
the time he was promoted to crew
chief, he’d saved up enough money
for a down payment on a piece of
land in North Carolina.
“It probably wasn’t the best way
to start, tying up that much capital,
but I saw the land as an investment,”
he said. “I enjoy wide open spaces,
and farmers and ranchers are aging,
and someone has to produce food.”
Moyer found his farm by looking
at plot books and finding properties
that had been abandoned. He then
hand wrote letters to the owners
of those properties until he found
someone who was willing to make
a deal. For five years, Moyer con
tinued with a foot in both sides of
culture, living in a rural area and
traveling every weekend to major
cities for NASCAR races.
NON-TRADITIONAL EDUCATION
He also pursued non-traditional
educational opportunities, such as
the Ranching for Profit school.
“I wanted to go where the inno
vators are,” he said. “I found a time
in my schedule in 2022 after a race
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in Portland, Ore., where I had two
weeks off and there was a Ranching
for Profit class in Billings, Mont.
The race hauler pulled up to the
hotel, I hopped out in my cowboy
garb, and they threw my bag out.”
The Ranching for Profit class
gave Moyer economic and finance
tools which help him avoid big
mistakes that others have made
that caused them to leave the cattle
business.
“I decided to figure out a plan and
go invest in cattle,” Moyer said. “I
love running numbers with a pen
cil, paper, and a calculator. That’s
what I did when I was traveling.
On the airplane and in hotels at
night, I’d take different classes of
cattle and sheep and mix them with
market conditions. I still have the
chalkboard with my original scrib
blings on it. I don’t walk slow, talk
slow, or think slow.”
The Sell/Buy Marketing School
was another learning opportuni
ty for Moyer, teaching him about
managing cash flow.
“I knew that cash flow killed
most young businesses, so I started
off pretty diverse within the cattle
sector,” he said. “I started by cus
tom grazing for another farmer.
Getting that check every month in
the first year was so helpful. There
was no way I could make it work
as a full-time rancher with the busi
ness model of getting a check once
a year.”
The first two years of Moyer’s
operation, he did backgrounding
for other cattle producers, as many
North Carolina cattlemen have off-
farm jobs.
“They’d miss a lot of marketing
opportunities, because then they’d
have to take a day off from work,”
Moyer said. “We offered a service
to those producers - we’d come over
to their place and help them weigh
and load their cattle. We’d keep the
ones we wanted and then take the
others to the sale barn on sale day
so they wouldn’t lose weight and
make them more money.”
Moyer would also take unvacci
nated, uncastrated calves and get
them set up, following best practice
protocols that would get the calves
an additional premium at the sale
barn.
North Carolina’s spring flush of
fered a lot of flexibility for grass,
but most North Carolina cattle pro
ducers calve in the fall. This sea
sonality allows Moyer to do unique
things with market value.
“We take our open heifers and
hold them for three months in the
summer,” he said. “That’s the
cheapest time for me to run a heif
er. I’ll rebreed those heifers and sell
them for a higher premium than just
selling an open heifer.”
MAKING A CHANGE
This practice gave Moyer the
confidence to make a big change in
2023. Moyer had just married his
wife, Leah, and wanted to raise his
family on the farm.
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“I was busy with my professional
career, but all I could think about was
that I could be working on my farm,
and I was hell bound to start this
thing,” he said. “I wanted to better
myself and my family, and I couldn’t
have that in my professional life.”
Moyer met his wife, the daugh
ter of an Illinois row crop farmer,
while working in NASCAR. The
Moyers retired from NASCAR to
gether in 2023, trading the perks of
social capital for a slower lifestyle.
“Now I get to have hours of qual
ity time with my family,” Moy
er said. “My main employee is a
16-year-old neighbor. I taught him
and my wife how to work cows from
the Temple Grandin book, and now
they’re better with the cows than I
am. Leah loves animals and showed
pigs as a kid. Even though she’d
never been around cows before, she
took to it like a duck to water and
is so patient with them. We work
cattle quietly, the right way, using
walkie-talkies to communicate so
we keep our voices down.”
Moyer approaches leading his
ranching operation to how he led
his racing team.
“This is a special place. We want
people to want to work for us,” he
said. “In the summer, we have too
many high school kids who want
to work here. I’m a softie, so I like
helping raise young men, but I won’t
be outworked by a 16-year-old.”
The 120-acre farm Moyer pur
chased had been abandoned for 30
years, and it’s taken the couple three
years to get it back into solid work
ing condition. The hay barn func
tions as a ranch office, where Leah
works remotely in digital marketing
for racing and agriculture. The cou
ple welcomed a daughter, Mallie, in
early 2025.
FLEXIBILITY IS KEY
The business model was built to
be adaptable. The operation has
very little infrastructure and over
heads, owning only a couple of old
er model four-wheelers, one small
tractor, a trailer, a chute, and many
freestanding steel panels that can
easily be rearranged as needed.
“Everything I buy is fully depre
ciated so I can keep overhead as
low as possible,” he said. “A friend
advised me to buy the best chute I
could afford, because Leah would
be working the chute, and keeping
her safe is my top priority.”
Another competitive advantage
for Moyer is living and dying by
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