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This Missouri Outfit Deals With A Lot Of Daily Data By: Corinne Patterson Land, combined with the gifts of Mother Nature provide the capacity to sustain life. Ranchers utilize these gifts by...
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By: Gordon Moore From the time of Gil Favor and Rowdy Yates in the TV Western series Rawhide to Boss Spearman and Charley Waite featured in the Western film Open Range, cowboys have suffered a variety...
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Soil Rejuvenation Is A Top Goal For This North Dakota Rancher By: Troy Smith It has often been said that failure should be viewed as a learning experience, and an opportunity to try a different and...
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There’s More Than One Way To Transfer A Working Ranch To A Worthy Successor By: Troy Smith Some things are meant to be. That’s how Lily Klase sees it. That’s why her late husband, Don Klase, got along...
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Randall County Feedyard Tends To The Cattle And The Consumer By: Gilda V. Bryant The Texas Panhandle has been devoted to agriculture since 1888. Historic ranches such as the XIT and Charles...
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Terrell Farms Chooses Moos and Ewes for Diversity Plan By: Troy Smith Agricultural operations often evolve and grow out of necessity. It is generally agreed that if farm and ranch businesses don’t...
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Satellite Auctions Have Come A Long, Long Way From The Video Tape Days By: Tim O’Byrne Some things we kind of take for granted, like antibiotics or cell phones. They are both marvelous additions to...
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After 30 years, this award-winning Wyoming ranch family sees no reason to give it up By: Melissa Hemken If we’re going to ranch in this country, we’ve got to learn to get along with the federal...
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This South Dakota Family Knows What They Need To Remain Viable By: Corinne Patterson Monday mornings at 6:30 sharp, four ag businessmen near Ideal, South Dakota, gather to discuss a simple acre of...
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The Story of Missouri’s Joplin Regional Stockyard By: Vince Crunk Mark Harmon is sitting in a truck stop, not far from Joplin Regional Stockyards (JRS) where he wears several hats; among them,...
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Rawhide outfit in a modern time Story and photos by Jolyn Young The O RO Ranch is located only about 50 miles from the city of Prescott in northern Arizona, but it may as well be 5,000 miles away from...
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A passion for cattle ranching helped this Wyoming rancher secure his family’s dream Story and Photos by Kesly Porter Ellis The first rays of the eastern Wyoming sun had just started to peek above the...
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A South Dakota family finds the balance between sheep and cows both on the ranch and in the markets Story and photos by Melissa Hemken Access to markets for their livestock is a concern shared through...
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You’re gonna love these marvelous manual chutes Whether it’s because there isn’t electricity where you’re working or you just prefer the simplicity and reliability of a chute powered by elbow grease –...
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This ranch family sticks to an admirable goal shared by many of their peers Story and photos by Corinne Patterson Good is kindness to your neighbors, the land and earth’s creatures. It’s an attitude...
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Generations stay connected on Idaho’s Pratt Livestock Company By Melissa Hemken In the sand hills of southeastern Idaho the Pratt Livestock Company lies between the Snake and Blackfoot Rivers. Since...
View ArticleThis Missouri Outfit Deals With A Lot Of Daily Data
By: Corinne Patterson Land, combined with the gifts of Mother Nature provide the capacity to sustain life. Ranchers utilize these gifts by monitoring animal units on the grasslands that blanket the...
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Three generations of this diverse Kansas family navigate 3D Farm and Ranch Story and Photos by Corinne Patterson As relevant as the adaptive conservation of the landscape has become for those in...
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A visit with an Idaho custom boot maker By Mark Bedor In the garage of a home on a windswept cattle ranch outside Mackay, Idaho, in the shadow of the towering, snow capped, Lost River Mountain Range,...
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A passion for cattle ranching helped this Wyoming rancher secure his family’s dream Story and Photos by Kesly Porter Ellis The first rays of the eastern Wyoming sun had just started to peek above the...
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