06/09/2026
This land has a CERTIFIED CONSERVATION PLAN!
After 28 years active duty, and 3 years as a JROTC director, Mike Taliento put on a different pair of boots. What began as a small endeavor in 2011, has now grown to include 30 head of cattle and a few adopted Mustang horses from the Bureau of Land Management with his wife, Tamela on 49 acres along the Big McAdoo Creek watershed.
Mike has utilized technical advice and funding assistance via Montgomery’s Soil & Water Conservation District, to create a certified conservation plan to install practices that maintain soil health and improve water quality while increasing quality pasture management.
As a beginning farmer, Mike reseeded pastures for 3 years to create a healthy rotational grazing system. He installed thousands of feet of exclusion fence to keep cattle from streams and provided freshwater watering facilities with heavy use areas and pipeline to provide clean drinking water.
Additionally, he has reformatted large gully erosion using logs and grading to make dams and control erosion, using this as a temporary feeding area and is currently working towards improvement of timber stand on forested areas.
Mike has demonstrated integrity in quality land operations even without program guidance, which highlights his dedication to the conservation of his land. PROUD TO GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH THIS MONTGOMERY FARMER!
