The Center to Protect Ranchers (CPR) is a project of the Institute for Legislative Analysis (ILA), a national public policy research and data organization. The mission of CPR is to boost transparency and accountability across the agricultural industry to protect family farms from government overreach and corporate cronyism. The CPR has four primary focus areas and leverages the expansive data sets of the ILA to educate the general public through activism and the publication of in-depth studies.
Bram Browder
Director of the Center to Protect Ranchers
The Center to Protect Ranchers (CPR) is led by Bram Browder, a longtime conservative activist who is also the founder and chairman of Founders PAC – a political action entity dedicated to supporting Constitutionally-aligned candidates for office. Browder has a distinguished business background within the insurance industry and is a life-long resident of Texas. Browder helped launch the CPR after learning about the many challenges his friends within the ranching industry were facing, particularly the failure of a major utility company to compensate ranchers and family farms for the devastation they’ve suffered due to a fire the utility company caused. Browder is now a leading advocate for ranchers and farmers harmed by big government policies and corporate cronyism.
Marty Irby
Senior Agricultural Advisor
Mary Irby is the President and CEO of Competitive Markets Action and also serves as a Senior Agricultural Advisor for the CPR. Irby has been named by The Hill as one of the Top Lobbyists in 2023 and 2024 and has extensive experience in government affairs having previously worked on the Hill, in leadership roles at non-profits and founding a major lobbying firm.