Williamson Cattle Company is a diverse family agricultural operation running approximately 8,000 head of cattle with calves on acreage in Okeechobee, Florida, Alabama and Texas, along with citrus in Florida and catfish in Alabama. Rural Okeechobee County, with a population of 40,000 people and 150,000 cattle is located within 150 miles of 15 million people in densely populated south Florida. Uniquely, South Florida is also home to approximately 1/4 of the cattle ranches in the US with herds exceeding 2500 head. WCC was the first cattle ranch east of the Mississippi to win the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Environmental Stewardship Award in 2004.