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After earning her degree, she married a rancher and never looked back. She and her husband Boe and boys Brindle and Roan have called the Four Three Ranch north of Lusk, Wyoming, home since 2014. Prior to their current residence, they have lived in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Laramie Peak, Wyoming, as well as southern Wisconsin, where they operated a horse business, training

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and boarding horses, and teaching lessons, which often included cow-working.

Savanna has offered portrait photography but prefers the photojournalistic approach shooting on the ranch or ranch rodeos. Her photos have recently been featured by Art of the Cowgirl, The Angus Journal, Cavvy Savvy, The Equine Chronicle, and within many Tri-State Livestock News publications.

Cover Story Tim Kugler patiently allows his grandson Henry B. Wasserburger to make friends with a calf at his family’s branding. Henry is the son of Andrew and Anne (Kugler) Wasserburger and fifth generation of the Bootheel 7 Ranch, located north of Lusk, Wyoming. Henry was a year old at this particular branding, where family and friends happily shared their time helping him safely experience the long-time ranch tradition.

Bootheel 7 Ranch celebrated 100 years in 2016 and has recently been focusing on offering beef to the public in a farmto-table manner.

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Cole went to first grade in Belfry and second grade in Bridger.

Compassion that lives on COLE’S PANTRY CARRIES ON THE SPIRIT OF FEEDING THE HUNGRY

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But the ripples it makes create impact, sometimes beyond the grasp of our understanding.

Cole Pelican’s passion was being a cowboy, and he was a good one. He loved being outdoors, hunting, fishing, sports, and most of all, his family and friends.

At just eight years old, Cole had lived more life than most people dream of when he died in a tragic horse

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accident on his family’s ranch near Belfry, Mont. in 2009. “Though young, Cole took full advantage of what this life had to offer,” his family wrote. “Cole’s passion for living brought joy to all who knew him and he is an example to all of us to enjoy every day that we have been given.”

Cole cared for people, in particular, his friends.

And he knew that when the Friday bell rang, some of them would go hungry until the next school meal. He would bring buddies home so his mother could feed

Filling food bags and serving others has become an honored – and enjoyable – service at Bridger High School.

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– anyone who donated over $25 or $25 worth of food got to be in the club, complete with membership badges proudly distributed and worn.

The idea of Cole’s Pantry spread, and over the next eight years programs launched in Fromberg, Laurel, Glasgow, Shepherd, Red Lodge, Deer Lodge and Huntley. In 2017 the program was recognized by Montana Governor Bullock with a ServeMontana award for community service.

them. Sometimes she would find food missing from the pantry, taken to be secretly shared with others.

In 2010, a year after Cole had passed away, his older sister Fallon Pelican joined Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, or FCCLA, at Bridger High School.

She was challenged to start a community service project.

Working with her advisor, Vicki Kaufman, they deemed the right fit was providing weekend backpacks of food to needy students in memory of Cole – his big appetite and his heart for the hungry. Using a $500 donation from Cole’s Western Wishes memorial, established to assist rural families in times of need, Pelican and Kaufman created Cole’s Pantry. They began by anonymously serving 11 kids from eight families.

The organization was based upon the principle of students supporting students. “It’s powerful and heartwarming how much students want to be involved,” says Kaufman. As the program launched, a group of volunteers dubbed themselves “Cole’s Posse”

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Today Cole’s Pantry has grown tremendously as cartons, boxes, cans and most of all, love, have poured in.

Their mission continues to be to provide weekend and summer food backpacks for hungry children in the rural communities of Montana. In 2018, with what would have been Cole’s twelfth year of school approaching, his family and the organization set the goal of supporting 12 programs. They quickly surpassed that in one year, and are currently at 14, feeding almost 1,000 kids in rural Montana every week.

The program is run 100 percent by volunteers and overseen by a board of directors, and accepts applications for funds to start new programs on a quarterly basis. Program growth has been built mostly on word of mouth, and directors say the people who get involved are those who see a deep need in their own rural communities.

No tax or government money is received; all provisions are funded by donations.

Special food bags are prepared for holidays, and Cole’s Pantry, Inc., will award special grants to participating programs if there is a seasonal need.

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Each program affiliated with Cole’s Pantry runs a little differently. Some volunteers fill actual backpacks, canvas bags, or even t-shirt bags hand-sewn by students.

Others offer an open pantry students can discreetly visit and choose what they need.

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Cole’s Posse 3.0 – the group of students representing Cole’s Pantry at Bridger High School, were recently awarded a $500 grant from Lead2Feed, a nationwide student leadership program recognizing groups who serve others.

the beginning of the year and any family or student who requests assistance can be put on the list. There are no qualifications, stipulations or guidelines – anyone who asks for food can get it.

Two things in common, however, are that the recipients are always kept private, and the volunteers always include students. Many programs are run by FCCLA or FFA programs, but some are by 4-H groups outside of school. All are based on the foundation of peers helping peers, just as Cole did.

Today Kaufman continues her involvement as outreach coordinator of Cole’s Pantry, Inc., assisting schools or organizations with setting up a program, and following up as they learn and grow. The nonprofit provides grants for initial start-up funds, then works with each community to become self-sustaining. Board members volunteer to visit the startup location to help with fundraisers and training. Additionally, all the Cole’s Pantry school advisers are in a network and are in continually in contact with one another – asking for advice and receiving ideas from other programs.

Kaufman says when you talk to the student volunteers, you receive smiles of pride. “They have no idea who gets these bags,” she says. “They are just doing it because they know it needs to be done.”

Marteann Bertrand is a family friend, and serves as the chairman of the board of Cole’s Pantry, Inc. “If a program is struggling, they can ask for input or assistance,” says Bertrand. “We don’t just set them up and

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Last year Cole’s grandmother, Carol Brumfield, determined to grow the breadth of Cole’s Pantry. Her mission was to enact community awareness and public outreach to raise additional funds and put more programs in place more quickly. She enlisted the help of friend Marteann Bertrand, and together they conceived the Cole’s Pantry Benefit. The fundraiser banquet was held in October, and in one night raised $35,000. With that they were able to provide start-up grants to six new programs – Plentywood, Boulder, Belt, Reed Point, Hinsdale and Miles City.

With much enthusiasm built and support garnered from round one, the 2nd Annual Cole’s Pantry Benefit will be Saturday,

Sept. 14, 2019, in the Montana Pavilion at the Metrapark, Billings, Mont. A special friend of the Pelican family, noted country gospel singer Susie McEntire, will highlight the evening. Events will kick off at 5 p.m. with no-host cocktails and silent auction. At 6 p.m. McEntire will perform, followed by dinner at 7 p.m., a live auction at 8 p.m., then dancing to live music by The Bucky Beaver Ground Grippers. Billings’ noted radio DJs “The Breakfast Flakes” will emcee, and auctioneer Brent Kautz will guide the bidding excitement. Single tickets are $50, and tables of eight and sponsorships are available. To purchase tickets or visit about sponsorship call 406.696.2144 or go to www.colespantryinc.org.

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say, ‘Here you go, you’re on your own.’ We’re truly a family of programs.”

Plans for the future include continued expansion throughout Montana and possibly into Wyoming, while keeping the mission and purpose the same – kids helping feed other kids.

“It’s sad to think there are that many hungry kids out there in rural areas,” says Bertrand, noting that 40 to 60 percent of students in rural Montana receive free or reduced cost school lunches. “Many of those kids don’t have anything to eat from lunchtime on Friday until lunchtime on Monday. That’s why Cole’s Pantry exists.”

The organization may have originated from a deep loss, but a shared passion for honoring a kind and fervent boy by feeding those in need is what draws the board of directors and supporters of Cole’s Pantry together.

“We have a little motto among us,” says Bertrand. “We say, ‘We’re going to feed them all.’”

This May, Cole would have graduated with his classmates at Bridger High School. They plan to honor him with his own cap and gown, his seat upheld, as they march out to make their mark on the world.

Though his chair will sit empty, Cole has already made his impact – deeply, widely, and above all, compassionately.

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Chesney Reeves takes a fecal sample from a calf arriving at a feedyard, to check for the presence of worms. Testing for the efficiency of cattle dewormers is the project she is working on this year.

PHOTO COURTESY CHESNEY REEVES.

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Chesney Reeves, a senior at Central City, Neb. High School, works in the lab for her science project. Students in Mrs. Chelle Gillan’s advanced science classes are required to do upper level research projects.

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WORK-STUDY Students study ag topics in high school biology

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Students at Central City, Nebraska, in Mrs. Chelle Gillan’s advanced biology and anatomy and physiology classes are required to do a research project of their choice, and some of those students choose topics in the ag world.

Mrs. Gillan’s sophomores in biology each do a simple experiment, then those students who take an advanced science class are required to do a more intensive research project.

The projects are of the student’s choosing, and range from the effectiveness of biochar

on seed corn, to the propensity for cavities, the effect of antibiotics on small water crustaceans called daphnia, and using switchgrass for biofuels.

This year, senior Chesney Reeves is studying the efficiency of cattle dewormers. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s research feedlot in Mead, she took 200 rectal fecal samples from incoming calves just off the truck. Twelve days later, after the calves were treated for dewormers, she returned to the feedyard to take another sample from the same calves. The samples were sent for testing to a lab in Lawrence, Kansas. Seventy-two percent of the calves had stomach worms before treatment. After treatment, only two of 200 calves had worms.

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Chesney Reeves stands next to her science fair project researching the prevalence of coccidia in feedyard cattle. The Central City, Neb. FFA member and high school rodeo athlete won top honors with her project at the Nebraska State FFA Agri-Science Fair. PHOTO COURTESY CHESNEY REEVES.

The research projects reap bountiful rewards for students, Gillan says. Students learn how to read and digest research projects, approach university professors to ask for advice, and how to present, among others. She has seen the effect the work has on the students. “I’ve seen success story after success story, and I’ve seen students’ lives change.

Their confidence, their skills, there’s no way to put it into words how it affects students.”

The projects require from thirty to forty hours outside of class time. As students read research papers written on their topic, they reach out to the writers of those papers, who often include professors. Gillan has had students working with professors from UNL, the University of Nebraska 20

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at Kearney, Colorado State and even a professor in Massachusetts.

As a junior, Reeves’ research project was testing for the prevalence of coccidia in feedyard cattle. She brainstormed her project with David Lee, DVM, to find a relevant project, one that was a problem in the industry.

She took twenty fecal samples from each of six different pens at Christensen Feedyards in Central City and Fullerton and sent the samples to a lab at UNL. All six of the pens were positive for coccidia, and at least fifty percent of the samples were positive, showing that the disease is prevalent in feedyards.

Gillan’s students take their projects to the Nebraska Junior Academy of Science and the State FFA Agri-Science Fair. The top ten projects at the state level qualify for the American Junior Academy of Science National Conference. In each of the last seven years, at least one person from Gillan’s classes has gone on to the American Junior Academy conference.

Last year, Reeves won top honors at the Nebraska State FFA Agri-Science Fair in her division, animal systems, and also won the veterinary award at the Greater Nebraska Engineering Science Fair.

The skills students gain from research are applicable in nearly all job settings, Gillan says. “The way we

want education to be is for students to have skills that will transfer across subjects. Research is all-encompassing. They have to improve their writing and reading skills. They have to read science journal papers, which are difficult to read. They learn computer skills and how to analyze data. They learn organization and time management. And probably the most important things they learn are perseverance and grit, because science research never goes as planned.”

Adapting and modifying plans is good for students, Gillan said, especially the high ability students. “A lot of the kids doing this research have never had to fail. I would rather have them have little bumps in the road now in high school. They learn to pick themselves up and keep going when times get tough.”

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Chesney Reeves’ science research project for her junior year of high school was the study of the prevalence of coccidia in feedyard cattle.

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Reeves takes great satisfaction in her success at science fairs. “It’s a proud moment,” she said. “You know how much work went into it, and you see other people coming up and being interested in what you did, asking about your research and genuinely caring about it.” She recalls a moment when she was working alongside grad students at a feedyard as she collected data. They mistook her for another grad student. “It was really cool,” Reeves said. “They were UNL grad students and they helped me.”

Gillan has seen it affect students’ career choices. Central City High graduate Sydnie Reeves (a distant relative to Chesney) wanted to be a veterinarian. Her high school research project, studying roundworms in raccoons, was published in The Journal of Emerging Investigators, and she narrowed her career choice to the area of parasitology.

Gillan is a strong advocate for her students, too.

“With Mrs. Gillan, you can go as far as you want,” said Reeves. “She never says no.” Gillan encourages her students who are afraid they’ll get a negative answer. “Her statement is, 'The worst they can do is say no,'” Reeves said.

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Gillan also knows that the research students do helps them no matter their career choice. “The skills they learn transfer to anything,” she said.

“These are the types of things employers want: communication skills, problem solving skills, perseverance, time management, dependability.

When things don’t go right, they have to say, how can I redesign this to make it work?

These are all things that the employers are looking for.”

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TRI-STATE WOOL Marketing Association

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Raising sheep comes with plenty of hurdles, so the Tri-State Wool Marketing Association helps out by finding the best market for producers' wool. PHOTO BY CARRIE STADHEIM.

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hile driving along highway 212 in southeast Montana, the tiny berg of Hammond, just three buildings, is easy to miss. But there is more to this community than meets the eye. One of those structures is a large warehouse that is home to the Tri-State

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Wool Marketing Association. They market around 300,000 pounds of wool a year to domestic and foreign markets, selling clean, classed wool for a premium price through an auction system.

Most of their members are from the tristate region but more distant states are represented as well.

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The association started in 1981 when three sheep producers in southeast Montana got together and took their wool to Pendleton, Oregon. That trip paid off and they continued to do that for a number of years, growing their members and cutting out the middle man.

In 1990 they formed the Tri-State Wool Marketing Association and has been growing and making money for sheep producers ever since. The Association has

a reputation for marketing high quality skirted and classed wool. The wool is no longer sold in Pendleton; it is auctioned off and has been shipped around the world. “We are making producers money by doing what we are doing,” said Danny Lanning, founder and all around one-man show. “We have a very low overhead. Our members have a contract and we wait to sell when the market is the highest.”

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Wool bales in the Tri-State Wool Marketing Association warehouse. Since the 1990s, the association has been working for producers to get a premium for their wool.

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Fleeces waiting to be sorted and bagged. Classing and skirting wool can add value and bring a premium to sheep producers. PHOTO BY CARRIE STADHEIM.

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“In around 1995, a sheep producer from Utah sent us a semi load of wool, about 45,000 pounds. We made him $20,000 more than he could get in Utah. He has been sending us his wool ever since. If you have a thousand ewes, in ten years you will have made enough to buy a new pickup,” Lanning said. “Our history speaks for itself. Even coarser wool, if it’s prepared right, will bring a premium. The advantage of a cooperative is it benefits the little guy.”

The Association is open to anyone who is willing to skirt and class their wool for the opportunity to get a better price, regardless of the flock size. Little to big producers, everyone is treated fairly. The wool is sold based on its merits, not who you are. The same classes of wool are grouped together for the core test, 6,000 to 7,000 pounds in a group, which helps lower that expense and allows for larger volumes to be marketed. A core sample is taken and sent to Denver to be certified according to weight, microns and yield. The wool is sold when the market is highest, sometimes even before all the sheep are sheared. All the wool is required to be in the warehouse by May first. The association charges about ten cents a pound to do it all. Bidding is

done over the phone or through fax. Paid on yield factor, the cleaner you keep your wool the more money you make. Super fine wool up to the coarser wool, just keep it clean.

The Association was one of the first to sell wool to France. The bales had to have a veterinarian health inspection just like live sheep before being shipped. They have also sold to China, and interest is growing in India as well. Some has also been used for military contracts in the United States. This year the Association is still watching the markets and waiting to see the outcome of the Chinese tariff issues.

The wool is skirted on the shearing floor, a process which removes the dirty, stained wool, second cuts and vegetable matter from the fleece. It's then classed according to the Micron system, which separates wool into grades according to the average fiber diameter as measured by a micrometer, which is one millionth of a meter.

Fine wool has a low micron value.

The fiber diameter is the most important characteristic of wool in determining its value.

The wool is packed into square wool bags or bales, each one weighing around 470 to 500 pounds. Lanning was one of the first to start the use of square bags in the US. He built his bagger after seeing a photo of one from Australia. He went on to build ten of them. More wool can be packed into a square bag compared to a round one and they are easier to transport. When selling overseas, all the paperwork, weights and inspections have to match. The wool is placed in shipping containers, 100 bales to a container, delivered to a port and loaded on the boat.

“The sheep industry is shrinking, there is less profit in them and predators are the biggest problem. There are a lot of little bunches, but not the volume of sheep there use to be. Ranchers are getting old, and it’s hard to find help.” Lanning said.

“We help the producer make more money if they are willing to keep their wool clean, skirt it and class it. Pay is based on yield, so keep it clean. Everyone is treated like family.” Lanning said. “If you want to make money with the sheep project, you need to look at alternatives.”

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The Double L Country Store uses locally sourced food (eggs, beef, pork, potatoes, and more) and has a small gift shop with unique items.

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hidden gem sits on the east side of Highway 17, halfway between Gering and Kimball, Neb.

open a café. “My husband thought I was crazy to give it a try, but I thought it was a shame, that it sat empty. We needed something locally here, in our area.”

Laura Lee's Double L Country Store, owned and operated by Dave and Laura Whelchel, is a farm to table restaurant, using locally sourced foods and selling gift shop items, some of them made by locals.

They spent several years renovating it, starting from “square one,” knocking out walls, making it handicap accessible, and sprucing it up.

A café had been in that spot for many years, but when it wasn’t being used, it got Laura thinking. “I just kept thinking, somebody should do something with that,” she said. She decided to

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It opened in 2015, with items from local farmers and producers. Laura and Dave, owners of the Lazy W Diamond Ranch, fatten out steers for their beef. Rocky Hollow Bison Company supplies the bison. Eggs are delivered from a neighbor seven miles away who also cooks and

Laura Whelchel, co-owner alongside husband Dave, stands behind the counter with her pies, cookies and brownies, all made from scratch.

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The interior of the Double L Country Store. The restaurant building has been in its present location for the last fifty-plus years; four years ago, Dave and Laura Whelchel renovated it and opened it as their own.

waits tables at the restaurant. The pork comes from a local farm, as do the potatoes. Laura has a small garden outside the restaurant where she picks fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, lettuce, garlic, and has a strawberry bed. “We always tell our customers, if you see a red strawberry, you’re welcome to pick it. It’s nice to step out the back door and pick a tomato to put on somebody’s salad.”

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Laura makes much of her food from scratch, including cinnamon rolls, bread, hamburger buns, cookies, brownies and pie. To slather on pancakes, she makes jellies and jams: pear, peach, strawberry rhubarb, blueberry cherry, wild plum and chokecherry.

She makes three of the restaurant’s salad dressings as well: blue cheese, honey mustard and ranch.

And pies: pies are what the Double L Country Store is known for. Laura makes the crusts from scratch, and serves a variety, using the fruit that is in season in the summer. Peach, apple crumb, cherry and blueberry are constants, but chocolate and French coconut pies also make frequent appearances.

Customers request recipes they remember their grandmas or aunts making, asking Laura to

re-create them. “If I can find the recipe, I make it,” she said.

After customers are done eating, they can browse the gift store. There’s plenty to peruse: locally-made jewelry, local honey, hot sauce, homemade dog treats, skincare products, candies, chocolates, looseleaf tea, music CDs from a local singer and songwriter, and books from a local author. Laura makes

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The locals love the restaurant, and in the summer, the restaurant is busy with tourists from around the globe. Laura keeps a guest book by the register, with signatures from people from Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, all over Europe and Asia. Many of them have flown into Denver and are driving to the Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore.

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A lot of military people stop by as well, who work at the missile silos in the area. “They always appreciate homemade food, homemade cookies and brownies. They’re happy to get it.”

Banner County, where the restaurant is located, is in a “food desert,” defined as an “area

Fresh eggs and bacon, plus the potatoes, are all locally sourced, grown or raised within western Nebraska.

Breakfast burritos are one of the many delicious things on the menu at the Double L Country Store north of Kimball, Neb.

in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food.” The county’s population is 742, with Harrisburg its only town, population 100, and no grocery store. The restaurant is the only place to buy food in the county.

Laura loves to garden, and hopes to plant a bigger one this summer. She grows vegetables, blackberries, rhubarb, and big sunflowers.

“People get a kick out of watching them grow.”

She used to have a large garden at home, but has moved it to the restaurant.

She and Dave have seven kids: five adopted, and two biological. Three of them are still at home, and two of them help out at the restaurant when needed. Dave helps with maintenance projects and will do dishes on occasion.

Farm to table made sense to the Whelchels.

“It’s available and I figure, why not support local folks. We try to do as much local as we can.” She makes sure her food is quality. “If I wouldn’t feed it to my family, then why would I feed it to my customers? That’s how we eat at home, so it carried over to the restaurant.”

On Thursday nights, the aroma of fried chicken wafts from the Double L kitchen. It’s the special, served with real mashed potatoes

Josefina Whelchel, daughter of Dave and Laura Whelchel, holds two homemade pies her mom made for the Double L Country Store.

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and real gravy. And on Friday nights, it’s wild game night, with specials including the elk burger, Rocky Hollow bison burger, flat iron steak, wild boar burger, build your own burger (BYOB), beer battered cod, and bull fries.

Each day has its own special: cabbage burgers on Tuesdays, chicken fried steak on Wednesdays, fried chicken on Thursdays, chicken fried steak sandwiches on Fridays, and on Saturdays, a specialty breakfast dish for the morning and elk burgers and a specialty burger for the noon meal.

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The Double L Country Store is open Tuesday through Saturday. Hours are Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 am to 3 pm; Thursday and Friday, 8 am to 8 pm, and Saturday, 8 am to 3 pm. More information can be found at www.lauraleescountrystore.com or by calling 308.241.2266.

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The moment you open the doors to Latigo Lariat, located in Loveland, Colorado, you are enveloped with the warm inviting smell of leather and saddle soap. You are greeted with a “Hi hon, how are you doing?” from Rozza Neeley, the shop manager, or a bright smile from Dee Ann Gadbury, the owner. At the Latigo Lariat, a saddle and tack store, you can find any kind of saddle, tack, and equestrian equipment. They also have All Animal Supply and Feed, run by Jessica Huwa, and leather work and repair by Charlie Cox.

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Humble Beginnings Dee Ann Gadbury started the store in 1998. Dee Ann grew up in Fort Dodge, Iowa where she and her sister mooned over saddles and anything horse-related at the local saddle and tack stores. From 1969 to 1980 she managed one of the stores. After leaving a troubled marriage she moved to Colorado where she worked three jobs in order to meet the higher cost of living.

During this time her brother taught her to paint houses. One of her jobs was to paint a commercial building at 3611 Lincoln Ave. The owner of the building had per-leased it to someone who planned to run a small car dealership but the zoning for the for building would not allow motorized vehicles to be sold there. He had to find

someone else to rent it. Meanwhile Dee Ann was out shopping with her cousin at antique and second hand stores. While her cousin looked for furniture Dee Ann tried to find used tack and saddles. She couldn’t find anything and found there was definitely a market for it.

“Bing, a light bulb comes on,” says Dee Ann. “I’ve got 30 years of tack. I can open a consignment store.”

The owner of the building on Lincoln Ave said he would let her have it for three months.

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“Rozza has been a blessing to me. She has the ability to sell people exactly what they need. She has done hundreds of saddle fittings,” Gadbury says.

“Really I don’t do a lot of selling,” says Neeley. “I let the saddle do the selling for itself.”

Every saddle maker has different angles to the bars of the saddle. Even though the gullet may be 7 inches on one saddle, the bars on another 7-inch gullet saddle can be totally different. Each different angle is designed to fit a different shaped horse.

Neeley says “good luck” to riders who buy their saddles online. To ensure proper fit you must try the saddle on the horse and sit in it.

“There is such a thing as sitting in a saddle, and sitting on a saddle” says Neeley. “If you’re sitting in a saddle you’ll ride it every step of the way. You’ll enjoy your ride. If your sitting on top of it you’re fidgeting, can’t find your seat, fighting to ride the saddle. If you buy online how are you going to know how you’re going to sit?”

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This why Lariat Latigo offers a trial system. You can check out most items in the store and try them out before you purchase them.

The store has been through many changes, with all sorts of customers passing through the doors. People have visited from as far away as Australia and Germany. Everyone who comes through the door has one thing in common: they all love their horses and they have pictures.

“We love pictures,” says Gadbury. “Most places people show pictures of their kids. Here people show pictures of their horses.”

The horse industry has had its ebb and flow and Gadbury attributes their success in the lean years to carrying used and consigned items as well as new merchandise.

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uality. It is found sparingly in the attire industry.

But for Larry and Terry Shore, quality is their highest priority. Quality of customer service, quality of product purchased, and quality of experience.

The Shores, who own WesTrends, a traveling western store based out of their ranch in Norris, Montana, proudly call themselves a mom and pop store.

Larry has moved up through the ranks of western stores, gleaning knowledge wherever available along the way.

He began his life-long career in a western store in Bozeman in 1975, then he continued to work in a couple other stores before opening theirs in October of 1979 in Whitefish, Montana.

“We were in Whitefish for 20 years.

It was a main street type of store doing a full line of western stuff, boots, hats, jeans, shirts, and a small tack department,” Larry said.

In 1999, the Shores built a newer, larger store—7,000 feet to be exact—in a more central location in the Flathead Valley, near Columbus Falls, Whitefish, and Kalispell. They

Larry and Terry Shore have operated their own western store since 1979, starting as a brick and mortar business and shifting to a mobile platform.

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had more tack available, Terry’s passion, even keeping a saddle maker on site, and selling Sundowner trailers.

November. They leave for Las Vegas, for the World Series of Team Roping and NFR, the day after Thanksgiving, returning to Montana Dec. 20.

In late 2005, Larry and Terry were approached by the landlord who informed them that he was offered a deal on the building and surrounding acres that he just couldn’t refuse. He offered to move them half a mile down the road and build a new building, but the Shores opted to pursue a traveling store, which they refer to as their “semi-retirement.”

Larry and Terry call Arizona home from the first of each year until April. The WesTrends trailer is parked at Horseshoe Park, a city-owned equine facility in Queen Creek, that is host to a different show or event each weekend.

“Sundowner built us a show trailer, a store trailer, and we pared down inventory to the things that are our favorites, my hat department, and for my wife, Terry, the tack and jewelry and accessories,” Larry said. “We started traveling in the summer of 2006. Our first show was the Northwest Montana Fair in Kalispell.”

The Shores have been traveling America since, primarily sticking to Big Sky Country from April to

“We’re not having to set up and tear down,” Larry said of their Arizona situation. “During summer, we’re moving around Montana for the most part, a little in Wyoming and South Dakota too. We pick our weekends and pick our locations.”

Inventory remains at their home on Terry’s family ranch, where the basement acts as their storeroom and storefront as well. They relish the quiet of the ranch when they are able to return home, but they also welcome any who wish to drop in and shop.

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Part of the WesTrends business included a website for about 15 years, but the Shores have found Facebook to be far more economical and have many advantages.

“We can have instant conversations and be able to send photos back and forth,” Larry said. “Everything happens immediately. That part has worked out very, very well.”

Larry doesn’t build custom hats, but rather shapes and customizes pre-fabricated hats from brands like American, Resistol, Stetson, Bailey, and Atwood. He can recreate hat shapes based on photos, and he can get a hat to fit quite well if a customer simply sends a picture of the inside of the hat that fits them best.

“Through Facebook, I can do a lot with customers, sending pictures back and forth, and seeing the appearance and also the physical headshape of the hat for fit purposes,” he said.

Larry considers working with hats a constant learning process, something he feels can’t be picked up in a few years, but rather, a lifetime of working with hats and customers.

“Learning was pretty concentrated in the beginning.

Most stores would buy open crowns and someone instore was the hat guy,” he said. “At that time, most hat company salesman were pretty well-versed in dealing with shaping. They came around to stores, not only to refill inventory and help pick styles, but they also were the ones that would pass on the information on how to shape, how to fit them, how they were actually built so you could talk intelligently to the customer.”

Larry still stocks most of his hats in an opencrown style, but he is also capable of reshaping an old hat to fit a new style. Years of working with hats has afforded him to know-how to get out tough creases or stains.

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Hats are sent to WesTrends without shape, so open-crowned and with no brim style. Larry Shore (not pictured) shapes them to his customers’ desires.

He noticed a shift in the industry around the time of John Travolta’s movie Urban Cowboy.

Prior to about 1975, the people operating western stores were of the cowboy type and their customers were the same. Post 1980, “cowboy” became a trend that could be purchased in department stores, though the quality was often rather low.

“The rest of the world saw the cowboy things as a good way to make money. The Nordstroms of the world got into selling western.

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Throughout the years, Larry and Terry’s knowledge of the “why” of western wear and care for their customers, not just making the sale, has built a very loyal customer base.

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“They keep coming back to us because they get the information. They know we care about getting it right for them, and they really enjoy wearing their hat,” Larry said.

Years ago, Larry was told by a rancher in Bozeman that the three most important things a cowboy owns are his hat, boots, and saddle. He could expect to spend a month of wages on his hat, a month of wages on his boots, and up to six months of wages on a saddle. In some instances, this still holds true, or mighty close to it.

“Going back to the very beginning in the 1860s, John Stetson’s beaver hat was $40 when guys were making a buck a day. That was five weeks' worth of salary,” Larry said. “It goes back to the joke about the $40 saddle and $10 horse. You could fix the horse, but you needed a quality saddle.”

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Larry caters to not only cowboys, but those wishing to live the cowboy lifestyle as well. He offers hats of all price ranges, from a $300 to $500 working hat or $2,500 mink show hat that can be custom ordered.

Jerry Kurtz, who first met Larry and Terry in Arizona, has been a WesTrends customer for about seven years. He is a “cowboy at heart” he said, but he’s also the director of imaging programs for a regional medical center in California, overseeing 18 departments.

“Outside of the fact that Larry knows hats better than anyone I know, they’re such personable people and treat people with such respect,” Kurtz said. “They’re a dying breed, a customer-focused, small business. It’s their word that matters. We do it on a verbal handshake. For me, someone who still lives by the cowboy creed is astronomical.”

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The vehicles were originally Stewart & Stevenson trucks, built for the Department of Defense and used by the U.S. Army. Out of their facility in Belgrade, Mont., Acela Truck Company is stripping them down to the powerfully built engine and chassis, then rebuilding and rebranding them as the Monterra 4x4 and Monterra 6x6, built for the most demanding job sites.

Ross Feenstra is senior sales manager for Acela Truck, and he says the vehicles are being sold as surplus because the military is converting everything to completely armored vehicles. “They are still building this same truck today – same platform, same chassis, still with a C7 engine, but they are making them with a different cab,” says Feenstra.

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With options including toolboxes and welders on a rig that can go almost anywhere, this custom designed Acela truck is the working man’s dream.

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Feenstra says he handpicks every vehicle that Acela Truck takes in. Usually they range from 2000 to 2006 models, and most have less than 10,000 miles and less than 1,000 engine hours. “That’s barely broke in for a Cat Allison power plant,” he says.

“We really do everything that a full production facility does,” says Feenstra. “It’s a very extensive process of tearing down and rebuilding – we strip them down to the frame rails, replace all seals and rubber pieces, sandblast everything down to bare metal, professionally repaint, then start the reassembly process.”

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This red rover went to work as a high-water rescue truck, capable of driving through up to 60 inches of water.

The bed has seats to hold people, and it has a hydraulic lift system to get them in and out. Acela Truck sells quite a few of these flood rescue vehicles to Texas and East Coast areas.

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“They look like a brand new truck at the end of the day,” says Feenstra. “We make them as much like an OTR truck as possible with a lot more potential for getting the job done.”

The body rebuild process can vary – depending on the ultimate purpose of the Acela truck. Custom specializations the Acela team has completed include bale beds, dumping flat beds, snowplows, water tanks, firefighting

rigs, fuel tanks, and even a custom camper.

“There really isn’t anything quite like this out there,” says Feenstra. “A lot of people can buy a new 1-ton pickup and put two round bales on it, but then if it snows two inches they can’t get anywhere.”

One of their custom designs can fit three full-sized bales and have the dumping capability of 9,000 pounds.

The one specialization Feenstra says he has yet to do is put a feed mixing box on the back of one of his trucks. “I

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deflate the tire pressure,” says Feenstra. This system is also completely rebuilt in the remodel process.

The standout value of Acela trucks is their ultra-reliable work rating – up to 97 percent in a working environment. And that’s in a tough working environment.

Additionally, the trucks come pre-DEF, with pre-emissions engines. “That is a big selling point,” says Feenstra. “We have so many guys who have problems with their DEF tractors, especially throughout Montana. It’s been a big hurdle for people this past winter.”

Not only do they go where a tractor won’t go, an added feature is their central tire inflation system. With the push of a button in the cab, the operator can choose from five different tire pressures. “This essentially turns the truck into almost a track-type of vehicle when you

Beyond agriculture, Acela sells a lot of vehicles to the mining industry and emergency services providers.

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The team of 21 Acela employees is working to rebuild 150 trucks per year out of their facility in Belgrade, Mont.

Today this Acela Truck has a fuel delivery tank on back and is working in the tough oilfield sands at the largest mine in Canada.

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The vision for Acela Truck Company is led by company president Dave Ronsen. “He really just wanted to service the person out there who is doing the tough work in this world,” says Feenstra. “He saw a need and multiple markets we could service with these super-tough trucks, and made it possible to give these vehicles new life and people access to them.”

Debuting in 2017, the company is just a little over two years old, and their current production capacity is four trucks on the line at any one time. Their goal is to build 150 trucks per year out of the facility. Lead times from

order to delivery are at 90 to 120 days. Sales agreements include all option-based customizations, and a halfdown payment is required with the balance due at delivery. Fully refurbished trucks start out at $95,000 and go up from there, depending on options. Acela also sells trucks that have had the engine, transmission and axles all rebuilt, but without any sandblasting, repainting or refurbishing of the cab. Those start at $46,000.

For working people looking for something tough enough to join them in the trenches, these trucks are a great ally.

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Ty Littau

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Ty Littau works the mic at a local auction.

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y Littau knows only one speed and that’s full speed ahead. The millennial rancher from Clear-field, S.D. has squeezed a lifetime of memorable experiences into his 28 years of life.

The cattleman has an unmatched drive and a passion for learning that has propelled his agricultural career from the start.

A 2009 graduate of Winner High School, Littau went on to study agricultural business at South Dakota State University (SDSU). While there, he was a student advisory team member for Agriculture

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Future of America. He served as an SDSU admissions ambassador, and he was selected to deliver the student address at his graduation ceremony.

During his collegiate years, he also attended the Western College of Auctioneering, and in 2010, he established Littau and Associates Auctions.

“My dad always said if I wanted to come back home to the ranch, I would need to bring some skills and other pursuits back with me,” said Littau, of the family seedstock business, Littau Angus. “Between my freshman and sophomore years of college, I attended auctioneering school in Billings, Mont., and I try to get on a mic as much as I can helping at local auctions and with benefit work.”

Ty Littau spent two years working for Senator John Thune in Washington, D.C. PHOTOS COURTESY OF TY LITTAU

Before he found his way home to the ranch, Littau had a world to explore. After graduating from SDSU in 2013, he moved to Catriló, La Pampa, Argentina, where he worked for a diversified farm/ranch operation.

“I lived in Argentina for six months, learning the language and working in the feedlot,” said Littau.

“It was a great experience, and I have since had opportunities to travel back with SDSU groups on study abroad trips.”

By 2014, the Spanish-speaking cowboy headed back to South Dakota to take a position with the South Dakota Department of Agriculture (SDDA), working under Secretary Lucas Lentsch. With offices

in Pierre and Rapid City, Littau focused on agricultural development and enjoyed helping producers, landowners, developers and local leaders identify growth opportunities in rural communities.

“I loved working in agricultural development for the state of South Dakota,” said Littau. “It was great being able to work with cattle, sheep, brewers and everything in between.”

Content with his SDDA position, Littau wasn’t looking for a career change, but he had an opportunity to work for Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) in Washington, D.C., during the 114th Congress.

“Heading to Washington, D.C. meant giving up a job I enjoyed, taking a significant pay cut and

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moving to a city with higher living expenses,” said Littau. “However, getting to work for somebody like John Thune is not a common opportunity, and I told myself I would go for one year.”

So in 2015, Littau headed to the nation’s capitol, diving head first into the cutthroat arena of Washington, D.C. politics.

“After a year of really struggling to adapt to urban life and working on Capitol Hill, I decided to stick it out for one more year, and it ended up being an incredible year and an amazing experience for me,’” said Littau.

“It was a tremendous opportunity for

Ty and Cody Littau married in 2018 and are part of the family business, Littau Angus.

personal development, and it changed for the better the way I think about the state of South Dakota and our agricultural industry.”

While in Washington, D.C., Littau reconnected with an old childhood friend, Cody Thomas. Sparks flew and the couple got married in September 2018.

“She was working in North Carolina when I was in Washington, D.C., and her family used to run Habitat for Humanity in Mission,” said Littau. “I had lost touch with her from 2008 to 2015, but that first Thanksgiving out in D.C., I didn’t have any money or leave set aside to go home. I basically invited myself to her Thanksgiving and got a ride down to North Carolina to spend the holiday with her. We started writing letters back and forth, and the rest is history.”

Cody moved back to South Dakota before Ty did.

A 2014 graduate of Truett McConnell University in Cleveland, Ga., Cody currently works for the South Dakota Grassland Coalition. On the side, she manages social media and marketing for Cardwell Consulting and owns her own business, Sage and Sorrel Design, where she creates artisan pieces such as macramé home decor and custom mohair cinches.

By 2016, Ty was ready to close the chapter in Washington, D.C. and begin a new one on the ranch.

Ty and Cody join his dad, LeRoy Littau; aunt and uncle, Bob and Becky Littau; cousins and cousin-inlaws, Will and Naomi Littau and Logan and Kristi Littau; and brother, Kip Littau on the ranch.

“My big drive to come home to the ranch was to know in my heart of hearts whether I could make this work or not,” said Littau. “Cody and I ask

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“High input agriculture has taken us to a place of great efficiency, but it has also left us sick and tired and burnt out and broke,”Ty Littau

ourselves a lot — Are we really adding what we should be to this outfit? Are we pulling our own weight? A lot of it is in timing, and it’s been an interesting three years to come back into production agriculture.”

Littau Angus just hosted its 45th Annual Bull Sale in 2019. The reputable outfit is wellknown and respected in the state and region.

Littau is passionate about the cattle his family produces, but he also recognizes the importance of adapting to a changing industry.

“I’m committed to being a lifelong learner, and I think my experiences away from the ranch have enriched my own flexibility and adaptability,” said Littau.

“In some ways, that has created its own set of challenges because I’m okay with trying something and it working out poorly. I’m very interested in holistic management.

I am really excited about continuing to push the envelope on soil health and holistic practices to improve our land. We have spent the last 60 years tirelessly improving our Angus genetics. The next place I want to focus on is utilizing our natural resources more efficiently.”

Littau shares the frustrations of so many other producers who are seeing stagnant markets while input costs escalate to record-breaking highs.

Littau Angus celebrated its 45th annual production sale in 2019.

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“High input agriculture has taken us to a place of great efficiency, but it has also left us sick and tired and burnt out and broke,” he said. “With the markets the way they are right now, it’s time to take a hard look at our practices to maximize some synergies and the systems that we have in place. So often in agriculture, we don’t want to deviate from what we have always done for fear of failure or looking silly. But we as an industry are at a juncture now where we need to restore some of the balance, and instead of looking at industry and technology to solve our problems, we should be looking

to try operate and mimic nature and let the land do what it was designed to do.”

you look back on your life, did you take the big chances and live a worthwhile, memorable life?

Back at home on the ranch, Littau is putting some of his career experiences to work in practical applications; however, the young producer acknowledges there will always be growing pains when working in a multi-generational operation.

“I’m not afraid of failing or walking away from this life, but I am afraid of not trying at all,” said Littau. “There is room for all types of producers — organic, natural, etc. If you have a passion for it, don’t be afraid to pursue it. Be a lifelong learner. Take advantage of the great resources available out there for producers, and be willing to try something different.”

“There are lots of moving parts in our family business; we try to make everything work for everybody,” said Littau.

“It’s not always easy, and one thing I’ve realized is the imFor AllYour Spring Farm & Ranch Needs, stop by portance of being involved in agricultural organizations to learn more and take advantage of available resources.”

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In his spare time, Littau is a sales rep for K Bar J Leather in Newell, and he auctioneers every chance he gets. He serves as a board member for the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, and is a rep for the county GOP. “Being involved in these organizations is what makes this business fun,” said Littau.

“Coming off the winter we did, ranchers need to be able to share our challenges and our successes. Beyond that, Cody and I love sharing our ranching lifestyle with others.

We have been able to entertain people from all over the world in our ranch house in Clearfield. Being able to share our way of life with others really makes it worthwhile.”

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CATTLEMAN TO AUTHOR:

Doug Hoff captures heritage & history in his first novel

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any Angus producers in the Tri-State Area may recognize the name Douglas Hoff. He was a prominent Angus producer in the area, owner of the bull Scotch Cap, and leader of Angus America.

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While Hoff might be known to many as fellow rancher, he has now taken on a different title: author.

What started as something of a history paper honoring his wife’s family turned into a novel based on the lives of her grandparents. Hoff ’s wife, Molly, turned out to have a compelling family history full of love, honor and integrity.

Hoff says letters written by Anna, the heroine

of his novel, were handed down through her three children and granddaughter, Molly. Anna’s stories were so compelling that he decided to put her story into a book rather than just a few historical memoirs.

Now, the world can read the stories of Anna Ingevich in Hoff ’s novel based on her life, Honoring Anna. Anna’s journey from Norway to America was something of a whirlwind, filled with love

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and promises. She made the trek across the Midwest to finally land on the prairies of the Dakotas, where Doug and Molly ranched and raised their family.

decided to ranch with his father, there was nothing to be made in ranching unless you added value to it. So they added “purebred” to their Angus pedigree.

Writing was never a passion for Doug, although he was an advanced English student. So advanced, he wasn’t required to take a college English course. He attended the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology for engineering. When he finished college and

Before the Hoff family knew it, they were selling purebred Angus seedstock and frozen semen across the country. Near the end of his ranching career, Doug said he was hosting production sales with 100+ lots offered, had bulls enrolled in nearly 30 different semen companies, all while developing his own genetics company.

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“It just became too much,” said Hoff.

During his ranching career, Hoff was honored with titles like North American Seedstock Producer of the Year, South Dakota Young Farmer of the Year (late ’70s), and 2000 U.S. Livestock Man of the Year. He was in the first graduating class of South Dakota Agriculture Rural Leadership (SDARL), served on the National Purina Advisory Board, and judged cattle at the National Western Stock Show, American Angus Futurity and many county and state fairs.

The Hoff Scotch Cap Angus herd was dispersed in 2006.

Hoff ’s son had a major interest in the science and technology behind the genetics of the herd, but didn’t care much for the ranch lifestyle. Cattle from Hoff Scotch Cap Angus were sold to five different continents, but two smaller ranches were kept.

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“If our son had wanted to take over,” said Hoff, “We would still be there doing it right alongside him.”

Now, Hoff and his wife enjoy the winter months in Arizona and summer months visiting their ranches. Hoff does some consulting with a Nebraska rancher who uses some of the Scotch Cap genetics, but he says he is retired.

“I like helping people,” said Hoff, “If people call me up and ask for a consult, I am happy to help.”

While he may be retired from the ranch life, it doesn’t sound like Hoff will retire from writing just yet.

A second novel to continue Anna’s story is set to be released in the near future. Hoff says he is finished editing, just putting his final touches on the book before it is sent to the publisher. The second book is set to be a continuation of the notes written about Anna. More dialog was added to the book to bring the characters to life, and keep the story moving.

“The first book I wrote was a novel based on Anna’s life,” said Hoff, “I don’t think I will attempt that again unless the person is still living. I knew that I would never get all the stories exactly right after so many years so all of the characters have fictitious names except for my wife's family (Anna, Iver, and Obert).”

Writing Honoring Anna was “a process,” according to Hoff. He would try putting himself in the same situations on the farm and ranch, trying to live their life daily based on the stories about Anna. Hoff, along with his wife, traced Anna’s steps back to Norway and visited places Anna and her husband Iver had been.

The Hoffs met Norwegian relatives, stayed in the seaport village in the valley of Tenold where Molly’s grandfather was raised, and visited Norwegian relatives who told stories of Anna and Iver as children.

“It was such an amazing an experience to try to relive what they lived,” said Hoff.

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Anna’s daughter told stories of Anna going through Ellis Island, and Molly has the trunk Anna carried with her. Her husband, Iver had his named changed when he arrived because immigration officers told him ‘we have too many Olsons. Iver’s daughter described his small mountain village in Norway, Tenold, which became his last name in America. Each part of their life was pieced together

by Hoff who walked in their footsteps to stand on the pier where Iver’s mother cried every day after her son left for America.

retired" by his own words, though he might have a few more storylines to write.

“It (writing) is a nice pastime when you are retired,” said Hoff, “but it is a lot of work too.”

You can find his book, Honoring Anna, on Amazon, in major bookstores, and at his website, http://honoringanna.net.

“I only wish I would have been able to sit and talk with Anna, while writing the book,” said Hoff, “Although, knowing her, she would have been too modest to say much.”

He says Anna would have thought telling these amazing stories would have been bragging.

His book was written to honor his wife’s family, but Hoff became fascinated with American immigrants who came to this country with nothing and asked nothing of this country.

“They wanted to build a life in America, and the life we live now was built on their backs,” said Hoff.

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“My husband and I were ranchers so we can identify with all trials and triumphs involved in taking care of a family and the land,” said Molly.

You can see that history run deep in northwest South Dakota where Hoff raised his family too.

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The auction company has registered bidders from all over the United States, Canada, and even some other foreign countries.

Prior to the sale day, someone from the auction company goes to the seller’s location to take pictures of all the lots and get descriptions to later post online.

The McPhersons’ online auctions are set up in a format similar to eBay. Buyers can view descriptions, click through pictures of the item they’re interested in, see the current bid amount on an item, check out how many bids have been placed on the item, and finally place their own bid.

Once the time is up and the bids are in, customers can pay via check, cash, or by transferring funds through their bank. McPherson’s don’t offer a credit/ debit card option, but some auction services do.

Afterwards, the buyers are responsible for picking up their own items or planning and paying for them to be shipped or delivered.

As far as the actual auction services go, most of them are commission-based.

Each item has an open window of time on the day of the auction where buyers can place their bids.

Some of the benefits of online auctions include the ability to digitally market the items through Facebook, digital listings, via the company’s website, texting, or directly e-mailing registered bidders about upcoming auctions. This increases awareness and expands the customer base for the seller.

One perk of the online format is the efficiency for anyone who is interested in purchasing an item.

Online auctions also eliminate the weather as a hindering variable.

“It takes 2-3 hours to sell online what in comparison would have taken an entire day at a live auction,” McPherson said.

While online auctions have been growing in popularity, there are still some people in agriculture who are hesitant to buy/sell through the new format.

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McPherson said sometimes the people who are the hardest to get to change are the farmers and ranchers who are accustomed to physical auctions, but he said, “Once we get them to try auctions online, they think [online] is the real deal.”

Bill Coleman, chief operating officer at Big Iron Agricultural Auctions, also commented on some of the differences between online and traditional auctions. He explained that one of the biggest cons to online auctions is that “you don’t have the social interaction.”

To combat that, Big Iron uses technology to give buyers a more involved experience. They do this by flashing the screen or your phone or device when you place a bid, sending you messages/notifications when you have been outbid on an item, and other communication about the auction items.

Coleman said that their technology “does a good job simulating bidding behavior that you would see at a physical auction.”

Sending alerts to your phone telling you when someone has outbid you or when the closing time is for an item that you’re interested in is also more efficient for buyers. In the end, Coleman says that online auctions save producers time and money because they “don’t have to take a day off to go to the auction.”

Boyd Ebberson of Nebraska agrees. He has bought and sold through Big Iron’s online auctions and said

that the online format is easier. "I don’t have to spend all day at the auction—I know when it’s going to happen.”

While buyers can see how many bids have been placed, Ebberson said, “The nice thing about the online auction is that nobody knows who’s bidding.”

For Bob Erickson, in Riverton, Wyoming, using the online auction format wasn’t his first choice.

When he started to downsize equipment from his farming operation, he first tried to sell through private treaty, but he said “we never could get [buyers] to take us seriously.”

After establishing a portfolio through Big Iron, Erickson said it brought more than he was was asking as private treaty.

At the end of the day, Erickson’s equipment sold to bidders from Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska, Ohio, and he even had a bidder from New York. He explained that the online auction “opened up our marketing to a vast network that we didn’t have in a small community.”

While some equipment went out of state, other larger items were purchased by his neighbors. Erickson said, "The funny part was, they could have bought it cheaper before it went on the auction site!”

Coleman said, “The price isn’t dictated by the local market—prices are higher and take advantage of 8-10 bidders that could be located 10 to 1,500 miles away and are bidding on that item.”

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This gives sellers a much greater customer base and opportunity to sell for a higher price.

One potential issue for a few buyers is that they might not have access to internet for bidding. Erickson said that he knew of some people in his community who didn’t have internet access, but they “found a way” to make it work. One of Erickson’s local bidders went into the office of the town’s tractor dealership to have them help him place bids on equipment.

Overall Erickson explained that online auctions can eliminate potential customers, but he believes that through the online format sellers are able to gain more customers than they lost.

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John Maciejewski has been making woven tire mats for about a decade. They are a great investment, he said, in saving injury in cattle exiting a squeeze chute and other situations. The typical Dakota Tire Mat runs $7.50 per square foot, however the tub mat runs slightly more due to the extra material, bolts, and care taken on the curved edge.

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omething old, something new, something handy, something reused. Many innovative products have been around for decades, but stumbling upon these agriculture products can open eyes to a potentially better method, whether that may be stringing fences or saving water gaps, protecting cattle exiting the squeeze chute, or buying that perfect toy for your young cowboy or cowgirl.

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Timber Lake, South Dakota Slipping in muck and messes is common when running cattle through alleys, tubs, and chutes, especially if a lot of them will be sent through at once or fewer, more frequently. John Maciejewski has been making woven tire mats for nearly ten years as a supplement to his 1,200-pair operation in Timber Lake, S.D. Dakota Tire Mats are made of tires that likely would otherwise have ended up in a dump or landfill. The mats can be made to fit any size at $7.50 per square foot. The tire mats are bolted at the seams with stainless steel hex bolts with a washer underneath and poses no risk to the animal. In fact, just the opposite.

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“I believe everybody should have one in front of their chute,” Maciejewski said. “When the prices of cattle were good, everyone poured concrete in front of their chute, and I think it’s a risk. Cows go screaming out of there, and hurt their shoulders or hips. If it isn’t concrete, it isn’t too long before they have a ditch.”

Maciejewski put his first-ever Dakota Tire Mat in front of his own chute. Other common places for the tire mats are in the tub, which involves a little more cost due to the nature of the rounded edge and the extra bolts required, or in alleyways. He builds quite a few mats for feedlots throughout Nebraska, South Dakota, and some in Wyoming.

“It just doesn’t work bringing in hard-hoofed animals and expecting them to remain upright,” he said.

“Anywhere those cattle are repeatedly moving back and forth is a good place for a mat.”

In one instance where Maciejewski’s mats saved a rancher from further unfortunate damage when cattle were dispersing the dirt out of a portable tub, and a cow’s foot slid under a cross bar, breaking her ankle.

“That was one animal, a $1,500 bred cow that now is a 40-cent-per-pound cow. Any place like that, they pay for themselves. Very few products will give you that kind of return,” he said.

The creator of Dakota Tire Mats, John Maciejewski, recommends that if his mats be placed nowhere else on the ranch or farm, that one is at least placed in front the squeeze chute. PHOTOS COURTESY OF DAKOTA TIRE MATS

Maciejewski’s first mat has held up well in the last decade, he said, even though it was cut with a utility knife and reciprocating saw. He had seen a similar mat design when he was in junior high, and it stuck with him. His ranch hands help him build the mats during inclement weather and down times.

To keep shipping costs low, Maciejewski uses the tightly-woven ranching and farming network to deliver mats.

If he has a large order of mats going to one area, he will deliver himself, but if just a few mats are headed in one direction, he tries to find a ride for them.

“I try to find someone who may be going part way, or if the customer can wait, I have friends that truck, and I try to network,” he said. “We all kind of know each other, and I’m trying to keep the cost down on these.”

If a Dakota Tire Mat gets quite mucky, Maciejewski recommends flipping it over with a skid steer, then flipping it right back into place. The small holes that are a natural part of the

design that allows air to seep below the mat and eventually dry out moisture, versus a solid stall mat, for example, that traps moisture and mold.

To order Dakota Tire Mats, visit his Facebook page by the same name or call or text John Maciejewski at 605848-8799. His most common sizes are a 6’ by 6’ mat for $270 or a 6’ by 10’ mat for $450.

Water Gap Saver Santa Margarita, California Water can be a cattle producer’s best friend, however, it can also be a major inconvenience. Water gaps are constantly being washed out by debris, leaving a rancher to patch it back together or restring fence. If electric fencing is strung across a water gap, and it fills with debris or even just rests in water, it shorts the fence.

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Mike Estrada created the Water Gap Saver after he became frustrated with continually fixing water gaps, which are mucky and messy when still wet or as hard as concrete if left to dry.

The Water Gap Saver, which fits on the three most common sizes of t-posts, rebar, or pipes, is installed at the bottom of water gaps, holding the fence down. When debris washes into the fence, it pops free and rises above the running water. PHOTOS COURTESY OF WATER GAP SAVER

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The Water Gap Saver is a small device that is staked into the ground and has a catch that holds the fence down, keeping cattle where they belong when water levels are low. As the water rises and debris stacks against the fence, it releases the fence to rise above the water level, keeping animals right where they belong.

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Estrada created the $25 Water Gap Saver four years ago out of his frustration with fixing water gaps. It fits the three most common sizes of t-posts as well as rebar or pipe.

“I was digging out a water gap that just got totally destroyed by flood water and debris, and I thought, ‘There has to be a better way,’” Estrada said. “If you fix it right after it floods, it’s a big, muddy mess. If you wait for it to dry, it’s concrete.”

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When first beginning production, Mike was insistent that the Water Gap Saver be

made from steel versus plastic. Plastic could potentially break, flow down the river, and be there for many years.

Steel has the potential to rust, but if it breaks free, it will eventually break down in the water and go back into the ground. Mike has had several Water Gap Savers installed for four years that are slightly rusty but have held up well.

To order a Water Gap Saver, visit their website at www. watergapsaver.com. Ten percent of all proceeds are donated to the Wounded Warrior Project, Mike’s way of honoring his large military family. The Estradas offer a discount for orders of four or more, as well as free shipping.

The Happy Toymaker Happy, Texas Twenty years ago, all that Jerry Simms’ two- and threeyear-old sons wanted for Christmas was a blue doctoring chute like the one in their yard. Simms searched high and low to no avail before finally building the chute himself.

He has since made a career of it, shipping more than 500 handmade toys last December alone.

Simms’ toys differ from most on the market in terms of their size and quality. He plasma cuts steel for his 21” long pickups or one of his other 32 products, then grinds down rough edges before bending with one of 20 hydraulic presses, assembling, welding, and painting. Toys are fully customizable with varying options such as a caker, welder, dog box, or tool box for his pickups alone, which also come with a wooden round bale. A brand can also be cut into the pickup doors, and customers can choose from 13 colors.

To go along with their doctoring chute, Simms also built his sons a tub, snake, and load-out chute. With each birthday and more Christmases, his sons opened more toys, even Quonsets cut from four-foot culverts, until they finally took over Simms’ L-shaped porch that he enclosed just for their use.

His grown sons now help in the business, though his older son Wesley, 24, will graduate with a masters in accounting and enter the work force soon and will be married in the fall. Wyatt, Simms’ “little boy” as Jerry calls him, floats horse’s teeth and welds. The 22-year-old can be found working with his dad when the weather encourages a day in the workshop.

Jerry Simms, The Happy Toy Maker, has been making steel ranch and farm toys for two decades. Many of The Happy Toy Maker’s toys, like this grain truck, have moving parts.

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Patrice, Jerry’s wife of 15 years, molds rubberized resin figures to complement her husband's trailers, chutes, and pens. She hand-paints the horses, cattle, sheep, and people.

Jerry’s 77-year-old mother, Patricia, paints most of the toys that leave the workshop.

Jerry travels to 18 to 20 shows throughout the year, including the Northern International Livestock Expo in Billings, Mont., Black Hills Stock Show in Rapid City, S.D., and Miles City Bucking Horse Sale in Mont. He totes some of his boys’ original toys along with him as well as Patrice’s figures for kids to play with.

The most common toy sold is The Happy Toy Maker’s ranch pickup. He sold 728 of them last year. Pickup attachments include a tool box, dog box, caker, welder, and more.

It also comes with a wooden hay bale.

“I love seeing kids’ faces light up when they see they get to play with them,” he said. “It’s hard for people to spend that kind of money on a toy for a kid, but if you do it, it’s a deal you’ll always have. You’re not throwing money away on a toy that’s going to be trashed in a week or a year.”

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He also offers 16”, 24” and 32” half-top stock trailers, complete with working gates and a jack, a portable loading chute, panels, a panel trailer, cattle trailer, tilt gooseneck trailer, several types of semis, a hay trailer that loads itself, a flat bed with back axle slide, water trailer, bellydump, portable scales, a feedlot, overhead cake bin, small arena, large arena, and sale barn. A towtruck attachment and logging truck are in the works, though the latter is a work in progress for Jerry.

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To order from The Happy Toymaker, visit his website at www.thehappytoymaker.com.

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One-inch rubber fencing is a recommended width for horses, whereas cattle generally require two-inch strands. PHOTOS COURTESY OF WE RECYCLE RUBBER

Rubber Fencing Salisbury, North Carolina Yet again, where they would normally be toxic waste, tires become a useful, recycled product. In addition to other products, Jim Tonseth, of We Recycle Tires, creates 1-inch and 2-inch wide livestock fencing from used stock car tires. The superior strength and uniform thickness create a product that has a limited warranty of 20 years but will likely last far longer.

Tonseth and his business partner Andy Hoyle, had been cutting tires to build door mats when someone requested that he cut longer strips without holes for fencing for his horses.

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The fencing had most commonly been made from conveyor belts prior, and the gentleman who told Tonseth about rubber fencing attempted to build a round pen from regular car tires.

“He put it up, and it looked great, but the following morning, the elasticity of the tires took over and pulled the posts,” he said. “It failed miserably.”

As fate would have it, someone dumped racing tires in Tonseth’s front yard, but they were so difficult to cut that it nearly destroyed his equipment. However, they proved to be a far better source for fencing. He beefed up his equipment and went in search of more tires, hitting dead ends to begin with, until he got connected with some guys in the race car industry, and Tonseth was in business.

Now, within the heart of Nascar country, Tonseth spends much of his time driving to load race car tires and bring them back to their shop to cut.

The manufacturers of Rubber Fencing recommend five strands of fencing be placed no more than 9 inches apart.

Tonseth and Hoyle make about 80 products, including silage covers, racing souvenirs, and kids swings in the shapes of elephants, cradles, and horses. They use 100 percent of the tires, leaving no waste.

Fencing comes in either 70-foot runs for the 1-inch size at $0.15 per foot, or 30-foot length for the 2-inch width at $0.30 per foot. The fence should be nailed or screwed to a wood post with firm corner braces. It can be used in conjunction with an electric wire if desired, but isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessary.

When installing, begin at the top and work down, so if the corner brace gives, the bottom strands stay tight, versus installing from the bottom up. Tonseth recommends five strands of 1-inch fencing spaced 9 inches apart for horses. For cattle, he recommends 2-inch strands.

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He travels the United States delivering horse trailers, creating the opportunity to deliver rubber fencing as well. Fencing can sometimes be delivered as quickly as within one week, though during busy times of the year, it may take a few weeks.

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Seeking Opportunities to Build Beef Demand What the Checkoff is doing to drive demand for beef.

BEEF DEMAND Strong consumer beef demand is expected to continue through 2019 with the USDA predicting consumers in the United States will eat 8.9% more beef this year than in 2015. Much of beef’s demand is driven by ground beef and loin cuts, which are particularly popular with consumers at the grocery store.

NUTRITION & HEALTH The Beef Checko΍ participated in the 2019 NBC4 Health & Fitness Expo in Washington D.C., the nation’s largest gathering of health and ȴtness professionals in the U.S., to educate consumers on the nutritional value of beef.

SAFETY The Beef Checko΍ congregated at the 8th annual Antibiotic Symposium, attracting nearly 150 stakeholders from the “one health” community – including experts from animal health, human health and environmental health – to discuss antimicrobial resistance in the human population, and how our food plays a role in that issue.

INNOVATION EXPORT GROWTH Through support from the Beef Checko΍’s subcontractor, U.S. Meat Export Federation, U.S. beef exports grew 15% in 2018 to more than $8 billion, adding more than $320 per head of fed cattle.

The Beef Checko΍ recently launched Chuck Knows Beef, an all-thingsbeef personality powered by Google Artiȴcial Ζntelligence. Chuck Knows Beef can be found on the web and mobile devices and through smart speakers by Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Chuck can provide all information found on the “Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner.” website.

CONSUMER TRUST Team BEEF is a Beef Checko΍ proMect which enlists athletes around the country to spark conversations and provide beef education to consumers and other athletes at running and ȴtness events regarding beef’s uniTue nutritional beneȴts.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, November 2018 USDA ERS Livestock & Meat Domestic Data; USDA WASDE, July 2018 Tonsor, Schroeder, Creating and Assessing Candidate Food Service and Retail Beef Demand Indices, January 2017. IRI/Freshlook, Total US MULO ending 10/26/18; Categorized by VMMeat System USDA data compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation

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