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Ranching is hard. It’s a seven-days-a-week job with low return and high effort. It can be mentally and physically draining and at the same time, it can be more fulfilling than any other livelihood.

Rodeo is tough. It’s tough at any level but especially if you rodeo hard enough to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) — not just once but multiple times. It can be mentally and physically…

It wasn’t as if Jake and Alyssa Feddes didn’t have enough to do. After all, they operate a Red Angus seedstock operation near Manhattan, Montana, and Jakes is a Superior Livestock rep. So why would they want to buy the local meat processing plant?

“It was an accident,” Jake says. Or perhaps it was a sense of opening the door to knocking opportunity. Whatever the case, venture has turned…

Leave it cleaner than you found it.
If you walk through a closed gate, shut it.
Your work reflects who you are, and hard work is respected.
Your words can touch a soul or crumble a heart, so choose them wisely.
Look people straight in the eye when speaking and always speak with honesty and integrity.

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Between the pandemic and drought, the livestock industry is in an especially trying season of unpredictability. With so many unknowns at play, insurance programs for pasture, rangeland and forage (PRF) and livestock risk protection (LRP) can be helpful for mitigating future pitfalls.

Alex Anaya, insurance advisor for Ag Risk Advisors, explains more about these policies and their range of…

Ruggles Angus, located near McCook, NE, entered the purebred business in 2015 when Jeff and Kelcy Ruggles purchased 500 head of registered cows from Mill Bar Angus, owned by Mick and Marlene Cox of Hayes Center, NE. Jeff and Kelcy had been long-time customers of Mill Bar Angus while they were developing their commercial herd, so it was only fitting for the couple to have the opportunity to buy Mill…

Carl Dethlefs & Sons Angus was established by Carl Dethlefs in 1950 when he bought his first set of registered Angus cows to stock his operation near Rockville, NE. A few years later, Carl and his son Jerry started hosting an annual bull sale. Fifty-five years later, that bull sale is still going strong.  

Today, there are three generations living and working on the ranch, Jerry and his…