Filling a Market Niche for Natural Beef Story and photos by Robert Fears Consumer demand for natural beef continues to grow and sustain a market niche for cattle produced through branded programs. A company solely dedicated to producing natural beef is Premium Beef and Grain located about half way between Lone Wolf and Hobart, […]
RANCH FEATURES
Sandhill Story
The Shadbolt Cattle Company values family, landscape and animals. Story and photos by Melissa Hemken The Nebraska Sandhills absorb history. Names of homesteading families linger as place names. Land ownership may transfer because one rancher expands his operation and his neighbor retires, but place names stick. Land deals over the decades placed the 1885 homestead […]
Through the Reader’s Lens
Featuring Austin Bower, SD Where I live here in South Dakota we run our cows in the Ft. Pierre National Grasslands from roughly May 1 until about the end of October. Every year we move about 300-325 pairs from the main place of operations to the halfway point on Day One. That way it gives us time […]
Behind the Lens
Mandy Frank mandyfrankphotography.com I was raised on the family ranch at the foot of the Wyoming Range Mountains in western Wyoming. My mom was a good photographer and I remember her packing her camera and getting great shots of our life. I now live in central Wyoming on my husband’s family ranch where we raise […]
Texas Teamwork
Sterling Cattle Company is about family, crew, taking care of the resources, and good cattle By Robert Fears Rangeland increases as you drive west of Abilene, Texas on I-20 and it becomes even more pronounced west of Sweetwater. A motorist views miles and miles of short-grass prairie grasses interspersed with mesquite trees, prickly pear […]
Training the Next Generation
By Amanda Kishpaugh Greensburg, Kansas Twenty miles off of the highway, down a winding sand road that most people would fail to notice, the Merrill Ranch is tucked away, deep in the heart of south central Kansas. The ranch is comprised of 17,000 acres of grassy rolling hills and red-dirt valleys, and is home to […]
On Feed in Oklahoma
Filling a Market Niche for Natural Beef Story and photos by Robert Fears Consumer demand for natural beef continues to grow and sustain a market niche for cattle produced through branded programs. A company solely dedicated to producing natural beef is Premium Beef and Grain located about half way between Lone Wolf and Hobart, […]
Between Two Rivers
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 1904 four generations of Pratt family found their ranch niche, raised children, served in the Blackfoot, Idaho community, and produced good beef. These are the […]
Learn It and Earn It
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 skyline and slowly stretched across the prairie spotlighting The Laramie Range, which rose high above the miles and miles of […]
Forty Hours in the Craftman’s Hands
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, you’ll find the unique custom cowboy boot shop of Seth Teichert. “I’m not in it really for the money,” says this […]
