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On this working ranch, you can take care of livestock, manage wildlife or process meat — all hands-on experience you can take directly into your career. The MIR is also home to our largest lab, where you can conduct your research in conjunction with faculty who have decades of experience.

For Our Neighbors

Come see us at the ranch! Get ready to grill with home-grown and processed meat from our market. Reserve a spot on one of our affordable wildlife hunts. Or buy your next breeder or herd from carefully managed ASU stock.

A student working in the Meat Market at the MIR Center

Meat Market

Visit our meat market to choose from a variety of beef, pork, lamb and goat products as well as a growing number of smoked and fully cooked items. The main Meat Market location is open during the regular semesters and summer terms.

Large white-tailed deer buck

Wildlife Hunts

Put your name in for trophy whitetail, turkey and javelina hunting at an affordable price. ASU provides hunting opportunities for the public through three public drawings each year.

Livestock at the Management Instruction and Research Center

Livestock for Sale

Contact us about purchasing these livestock breeds:

  • Rambouillet Rams
  • Suffolk Rams
  • Dorper Rams
  • Boer Cross and Meat Goat Bucks
  • Angus Bulls

Questions? Contact us!

MIR Center
325-942-2389
Map: Management, Instruction and Research Center, Located about six miles north of San Angelo on the north shore of O.C. Fisher Lake.
7945 Grape Creek Road, San Angelo, TX 76901