ALL-AROUND STAGRICULTURE
FOR CCA'S 51 PRESIDENT G
DIVERSIFIED EXPERIENCE MAKES STEVE ARNOLD THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME FOR STATE'S BEEF PRODUCERS by CCA Director of Communications Katie Roberti
22 CALIFORNIA CATTLEMAN January 2023
rowing up in San Luis Obispo County, located about 20 miles east of Santa Margarita in the small town of Pozo, Steve Arnold started riding horses and working with his dad on the ranch at an early age. Full of oaks and woodland grasslands, home to the famous Pozo Saloon and just one mountain range in from the Pacific Ocean, Pozo is still home to Steve today. While Steve had other jobs before returning to the ranch in Pozo, the Central Coast has always been his home. Similarly, cowboying and running cattle is still what he knows best today. Even at a young age, Steve knew he wanted to be in ranching, but what he didn't know is that he would develop an interest in agricultural leadership over time, that would lead him to become CCA’s 51st President.
STARTING OUT
Although Steve’s grandfather, Guy, was involved in agriculture and is the reason Steve was able to grow up on the same land his family came to in the early 1900s, Guy was more of a farmer than a cattleman. “My dad is the one that got us into the cowboy world,” Steve said. When Steve and his siblings were around six years old,