The Peeler: the man who broke and trained horses for use by the hands in the outfit and managed the remuda.  Most often the toughest man of the crew, with an uncanny ability to make a horse “hook on”.  He knew  horses - and men - like the back of his hand and matched the two with careful consideration for the job they both would be asked to do.   A man of some influence and a no-nonsense sort, the peeler was the man who could cut straight to the heart of a problem and get it solved.

Before the Revolutionary War when the colonists were mixing tea in the Boston Harbor, Jay Miller’s ancestors were raising cattle in Rappahannock County, Virginia.  Today, Jay represents the sixth generation of his family in the county, raising cattle. 

Jay earned his bachelor of science degree from Virginia Tech University where he was a member of the National Champion Beef Judging Team.   After college he worked as the general manager of the Ladder Canyon Ranch - a thousand cow outfit -  in Dillon, Montana. 

Miller has three children: Jack (21), Ginna (19) and Maggie (17). 

He’s a former director of the Virginia Angus Association and a Past President of the Garden Creek Grazing Association in Dillon, Montana.

Today, he’s partners with his brothers Hodge and Brooke in Ginger Hill Angus, a nationally recognized seedstock program producing bulls and breeding females with a commercial customer base extending to Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska.  Independently, Jay operates Miller Land and Livestock in Washington, Virginia.

Miller has extensive experience lobbying Capitol Hill on behalf of the cattle industry.  During the 2002 Farm Bill he was front and center during policy debates in Congress, participating in meetings with policy-makers and agency officials.  On two of what were possibly the hottest summer days in Washington, Jay worked The Hill tirelessly in June 2005 as the U.S. House of Representatives debated and voted on the controversial Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).  Although CAFTA passed, the margin was historically narrow - just two votes.