Fall Cattle Journal 2014

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Editorial

PHOTO COURTESY MARIA TUSSING

MARIA TUSSING, Assistant Editor

Atlas

was the Greek god of weightlifting and heavy burdens. He personified endurance and was credited with holding up the heavens.

Last October, in a storm named after him, Atlas let them slip.

For a few thousand people in a couple states that are mostly dark in nighttime satellite photos, the heavens tilted. They are just now beginning to right themselves.

People warn you against looking back. They’ll tell you the only way to move ahead is to look ahead. But behind us lie the things we know are true. They’re the things that shaped us, and only by seeing what has shaped us, can we see what shape we’re in.

We could talk in clichés of the past year. We could speak of watering the earth with tears, of heartbreak, of life springing from death, of the life-giving and the life-sucking nature of water.

Or we could talk of people. We could talk of the people we were, the people we leaned on, the people we became.

Some of us rode horses, chest-deep and floundering through the misplaced blizzard that killed thousands of cows, but left grasshoppers alive. Some of us wrote checks, waved buyer numbers and

repeated, “Sell ’er again.” Some of us browned 20 pounds of hamburger to feed soul-starved neighbors the only way we knew how.

Some of us baked cookies, whispered prayers, shoveled snow, jotted tag numbers, posted blogs, manned backhoes, stretched wire, donated quarters, shook hands, gave hugs, and slipped, too tired to sleep, into bed. Again and again.

The people tromped on by Atlas took on the characteristics of the storm’s namesake–strength and endurance. We’ve felt like we carried the weight of the heavens for the last year, but we didn’t carry it alone.

We’d like to think that through this we became a little more human. A little more empathetic. A little more willing to understand fragility and to acknowledge our limits. Humility is a hard thing to reconcile with independence. Among the ranching community, independence tends to be prized above most things. But in the last year, we learned that community trumps independence.

And when we need it, that community will be there.

We dedicate this issue of the Fall Cattle Journal to the people

of that community. To the people who made it through, who helped us through and who continue to do the work that needs to be done.

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Thank you: One rancher shares what relief efforts have meant to her, her family and livestock owners across the region.

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Survivor profiles: Stories of the blizzard survivors and the people who helped them through.

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Rancher Relief Fund: A look back at the generosity Ty and Rosalie Linger: The faces behind Heifers for

TYLER AND TIFFANI ROBERTSON BRIAN AND JENNIFER PHILIPSEN MAX AND BRENDA BOWEN CASSITY GOETZ DELBERT AND GEORGI ANN COBB TOMMY AND ALICE HARTY MARVIN AND KATHY JOBGEN

Healing through hope, helping: Women in the path of the storm move on, help each other.

56 Gift heifers go to fair: Two donated heifers continue

the education started by the blizzard.

the blizzard, a community came together to support ranchers.

of faith, humanity from the storm.

Lights out: Atlas deemed worst storm in WREA history : The community pulled together to get the lights

62 Treating heartaches with steak: Just two weeks after 68 Looking back at The Storm: One family learns lessons 76

back on.

84 Dealing with Atlas at tax time: A look at some things

to consider as the year comes to a close.

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The year since Atlas

BY HEATHER HAMILTON-MAUDE For Tri-State Livestock News

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s we face the one-year anniversary of winter storm Atlas, the families and communities impacted by the storm say “thank you!”

Thank you to those who called, wrote, prayed and thought of us. Who organized fundraisers in faraway locations and encouraged others to help. To those who sent cattle or money. We remain humbled and overwhelmed by your generosity, and you have restored our faith in humanity over the past year. If you didn’t hear from us personally, please know that we are deeply grateful and thankful for the unmatched kindness you extended to us.

We lost a part of ourselves last fall as we searched, and found, our cattle scattered across the western Plains following the blizzard. The

weight of responsibility for the animals placed in our care that were lost weighed heavy on our minds – and still does. While we know that everything possible was done in an effort to save our livestock, we also had to face our own shortcomings as their caregivers in the days and weeks following the storm. Available protection, experience, hay supply, management practices – none of it mattered when Atlas hit, and it is a sobering thing to face your own limitations.

However, we also learned that when at your lowest, you often find yourself in the perfect position to pray, and pray we did. I truly believe

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that the power of prayer, something much of our ranching community practices, can do amazing things. The past year has been a shining example of what God can do through those that pray and believe in Him. People from across the country and world responded to the storm, despite the lack of national media coverage. Calls, emails, letters and gift boxes poured into our homes. Donations of livestock, money, vet supplies and countless other useful items found their

way to those who needed them. The Ranchers Relief Fund ballooned to over $5 million within six months, and Heifers for South Dakota delivered more than 1,000 bred heifers and cows into the hands of affected ranchers in roughly the same timeframe. Rumor has it a major vet supply company dropped off more than $500,000 in livestock supplies to area ranchers and the South Dakota Stockgrowers office following the storm. Countless other large and small ag-affiliated businesses followed suit.

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We heard of and saw many of the online auctions, the t-shirt sales, the kids who took donation buckets treator-treating. There were the meetings where they collected donations, the communities that hosted auctions, and the people who donated items of their craft to sell at each auction. The 30 young people belonging to the Alabama Jr. Cattlemen’s Association who traveled to South Dakota with heifer donations, work gloves, and a desire to help for a few days. The producers from Vir-

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There were also the private moments within families and between neighbors that will never be published, which are tucked in our hearts for life.

Those brief words of encouragement and help while gathered on porches or around kitchen tables following a day of working together brought us peace and comfort, and remain a shining example to us of how to bestow God’s grace and love on others.

As we approach the one-year anniversary of what the old timers are still debating as one of, or the worst, blizzard they can recall, we can honestly say we are better off than we were a year ago.

It has not been an easy year of recovery – there are bull pastures that saw half their occupants all summer due to a shortage of cows, the stench in some areas this spring was overwhelming, and you don’t want to see our fence situation heading into this fall. But, those temporary problems pale in comparison to the unstoppable and unmatched outpouring of love, kindness, concern and support for the continuation of our way of life.

Once again, thank you to everyone who took time to help us. The Lord works in mysterious ways, and has managed to turn what was an initial tragedy into a restoration of faith and humanity, an increased degree of gratitude for this wonderful lifestyle we enjoy and an unmatched appreciation for the people we share it with. May God bless you and American agriculture.

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Latch, Tire & Wheel . $15,975 7x24 Exiss Stock Stock Combo .............................$14,775 47x16 Ft Dressing/Tack Area,Combo Camper Door, Sliding Windows $14,275 in GooseCompartments, Slam Latch, 56” neck, in Horse Area, 4.............................$16,975 Tier Saddle Rack, Bridle Hooks $16,975 7x20 Exiss Stock Combo …...……..…...…. $16,975 7x24 Exiss, 2 Compartments $14,975 7x24Sooner, Sooner, 3 Compartments ………….…. $16,475 7x24 2 Gates, 3 Compartments, Slam Latch, Tire & Wheel $16,975 escape 7x18Rubber ExissMats Stock Combo $14,975 Door, Spare tire & Wheel……..…….…. ......................$14,975 7x16 Exiss Stock Combo ...$14,275 &7x20 BrushExiss Tray.

7x16 …. ……….….…. $14,275 7x20 Exiss,2 1 Gate with slider…….….…….. ……….….…. $13,675 7x24 Sooner, 2 available Compartments ………….…. $16,275 7x24 Stock Combo ….…….….…….. $17,975 7x24Exiss, 3Gates, Compartments $15,275 75 All trailers with slam latch,7.6x30, 56” 4 $15,475 Exiss StockExiss ComboStock .............................$17,775 $18,975 tments, front 7x16 Combo ...$14,275 7x24 3 Compartments, Slam Latch, 56” Also available in 7.6x26, 7.6x28, 7X16.................................... $14,775 7X18 ...................... $16,975 7x20 Exiss Stock Combo …...……..…...…. $16,975 7x24All Exiss, 2 Compartments $14,975 7x24ply Sooner, 3door Compartments ………….…. $16,475 Stock Combo options – plexiglass, rubber mats, trailers available with……..…….…. slam latch, 56” 4 wheeler &7.6x34 front drop cover vents 7x22 Exiss Stock Combo .............................$18,475 7.6x32, 7.6x36 es 7x24 w/14 7x20 Exiss Stock Combo ...$16,975 escape Door, Spare tire &Compartments, Wheel ......................$15,475 7x20 Exiss Stock Combo ...$16,975 Sooner, 13 Gate 2& Compartments, 7x24 Exiss, Slam Slam 7x24 Sooner, 1 Gate 256” Compartments, 7x24 2 Compartments, 7X20.................................... $17,775 7X22rack, ...................... $18,475 2 Gates, Compartments - Call 7x24 Exiss Stock Combo ….…….….…….. $17,975 7x24 Exiss, 3 Compartments …….….…….. $15,275 All trailers available with slam latch, 4 75 brush tray, bridle hooks, saddle 2 way pop wheeler door2Exiss, & front drop cover vents 7x24 Exiss Stock Combo .............................$18,975 .... $19,975 7X24.................................... $18,975 7x24up Exiss Stock Combo ...$17,975 Stock Combo options plexiglass, rubber mats, All & trailers available with slam latch, 56” 4 wheeler door & front drop cover vents 56” Ecsape/4 Wheeler Door, Rear GateRearLatch Spare Tire ................$14,975 roof vents, tie– Stock rings inside & out ...$17,975 7x24 Exiss Combo 56” Ecsape/4 Wheeler Door, Gate Latch & Spare Tire ................$14,975 er gates w/ 7.5X28 Exiss Stockbridle Combo,hooks, 5 Ft Tack saddle Room, 6ft Carpeted Room, brush tray, rack, 2Dressing way7x16 pop wheeler door & front drop cover vents 7x28 Sooner, 3 Compartments, front7x16 Exiss Exis Slam Latch .............................$16,775 Slam Latch .............................$16,775 7x24 3 Compartments, 7x24 Exiss, 3Exiss, Compartments, Slam Slam Stock Combo ...$14,275 ,7556” side 4 AC, Two Doors Through Dressing to Tack to Horse Area $25,775 up roof vents, tieRoom rings inside & out

drop cover vents, axles w/14 ply w/ 7x20 Exis 7x24 8K 2 Compartments w/ & Latch Sliders all Gates, 56” Combo options 7x24 Sooner, 2Sooner, Compartments on all on Gates, 56” Exiss, cover vents, 7x24Latch Sooner, 1Sliders Gate&2 Compartments, 7x24 2Stock Compartments, Slam– plexiglass, rubber mats, brush tray, bridle Exiss Stock Combo ...$17,975 tch & SpareSooner, Tire Ecsape/4 ................$14,975 2 center gates w/7x24 ....7.5x30 $21,475 Wheeler Door .........$17,175 Purchase any saddle 2 way Slam Latch .............................$16,775 7x24 Exiss, 3 hooks, Compartments, Slam Ecsape/4 Wheeler Door .........$17,175 hooks, saddle rack,rack, 2 WAC way pop pop up up 475 sliders, 6’6” compartment, 56” side 4 24 Exiss, 3 Compartments, Slam Monthly Financing 475 NEW 2014 Sooner Exiss 2 Compartments w/ er gates w/ roof tie rings insideStock & outCo 7x24 or Sooner, Latch 4.25% & roof Sliders on vents, all rings Gates, 56” wheeler door, front drop cover vents, vents, tie inside & out tch & Sliders on all Gates, 56” StockCombo Combo Trailer options – plexiglass, oor, triple 8K 4.50% Annual Financing WAC Livestock or Stock slider and slam latch on all gates, 56” Escape/4 Wheeler Door .........$15,575 17.5 wheels, 16 ply good year steel rubbe 475 cape/4 Wheeler Door .........$15,575 rubber brush tray, bridle .... $23,475 Up to 5 Years on All New Trailers & receive a $750 Visamats, Gift Card belted Radial tires ................. $21,475 Ecsape/4 Wheeler Door .........$17,175 hooks, s row Farmquip NEW Arrow Farmquip NEW Arrow Farmquip hooks,9/15/14 saddle rack, 2 way pop up er gates w/ At Goldies Sooner, 2 center Program gates w/ ends roof ve Alleyway 8400 Quick-Catch Cute & out 8300 Quick-Catch Chute roof vents, tie rings inside oor,7.5x30 triple 8K sliders, 56” 4 wheeler door, triple 8K row Farmquip NEW Arrow Farmquip NEW Arrow Farmquip .... $24,475 8300 Quick-Catch Vet axles ...................................... $23,475 Alleyway 8400 Quick-Catch Cute 8300Deluxe Quick-Catch Chute able Stationary 8400 Series Deluxe Quick-Catch Squeeze Chute With Palp Cage & 2 Rolling Doors Squeeze Chute With Palp Cage 7.5x32 Sooner, 2 center gates w/ 8300 Deluxe Vet HeadQuick-Catch Sweep MORE LIVESTOCK AVAILABLE ONLINE @ WWW.GOLDIESAUTOSALES.COM able Stationary 8400 Series Deluxe Quick-Catch ……….…. $5,375 & Head Holder sliders, 56” 4 wheeler door, triple EQUIPMENT 8K Squeeze Chute With Palp Cage & Stationary …………….…… $5,995 2 Rolling Doors Squeeze Chute With Palp$6,975 Cage Stationary ……………... able Stationary axles ...................................... $24,475 Head Sweep Portable ……………...….… $6,975 ……….…. $5,375 Head Holder $7,975 Portable &……………...…

Rolling Door 2001 Sundowner 4 Horse with living quarters, 12-ft short wall …………….…… with full living$5,995 quarters el Gooseneck w/ one center gate, rubber mats, Stationary rear gate……………...

Stationary $6,975 able Stationary …...…..…. $3,875 Portable and ……………...….… $6,975 mangers with fans for each horse ……………...… $7,975underneath storage. Horse area has dividers Rolling Door 2001 Sundowner 4 Horse with living quarters, 12-ft short wall with full living quarters, k…...…..…. w/ one$3,875 center gate, rubber mats, rear gate Portable drop down feed doors and rear butt windows, electric jack ....................... $27,775 ondition!................................................................ $5,975 mangers with underneath storage. Horse area has dividers and fans for each horse, 2001 4jack Horse without living quarters, 12-ft sho 2008 Corn Pro 6X16with Steel Gooseneck one center gate, rubber mats, rear drop down feed doors and reargate butt windows, electric ....................... $27,775 01 Sundowner 4 Horse living quarters, w/ 12-ft short wall with full living quarters, 1999 Trail Rite 4 Horse front tackSundowner / dressing room, swing mangers with underneath storage. Horse area$6,275 has divi ........................................................ $5,975 w/Stock slider and newer tires. ngers with Trailer, underneath storage.

Horse area hasSliders dividers and fans for each horse, saddle rack, stall dividers .............................................................................. teel 2 Center Divider Gates With And drop down feed doors and rear butt windows, electric p down feed doors and rear butt windows, electric jack ....................... $27,775 NEW Arrow Farmquip NEW Arrow Farmquip Trailer is in EXCELLENT condition!................................................................ $5,975 1999 Trail Rite 4 Horse front tack / dressing room, swing out Compartments, (2) 7000Lb Torsion Axles, Rear Gate With 1990 Wilson Aluminum 7X24 Stock Trailer, 1 center gate rear gate with$6,275 roll-up door row Farmquip Portablerack, Tub, Alley & Chute Hydraulic Squeeze Chute stall dividers .............................................................................. ailer, 2 Center Divider Condition Gates With Sliders And saddle 1999 Trail Rite 4 Horse front tack / dressing room, sw calTrail Trade In, Excellent NEW Arrow NEW Arrow Farmquip 99 Rite 4 Horse front tack / ......................... dressing room, $7,975 swing out local Farmquip trade ........................................................................................................$7,995 ding Chute ..............................................

2008 Circle-D 6’8”X24’ Steel Stock Trailer, 2 Center Divider Gates row Farmquip Portable Tub,16’Alley & With Chute Chute s, (2) 7000Lb Torsion Axles, Rear Gate With Deluxe Portable X-Flow Tub, 8’Sliders And saddle rack, stall dividersHydraulic HYD 2000VSqueeze Deluxe Hydraulic dle rack, stall dividers .............................................................................. $6,275 1990 Wilson Aluminum 7X24 Stock Trailer, 1 center gate rear gate withWith roll-up door, Alley, Quick Catch Squeeze Chute Squeeze Chute Vet Cage & ding Chute rtable Loading 1989 Wilson 7X24 Aluminum Stock Trailer, 2 divider gates to make 3 compartments Slam Latches To Make 3 Compartments, (2) 7000Lb Torsion Axles, Rear Gate With uminum Stock Trailer,.........................

2 center gates w/ sliders to make 3Holder Excellent Condition $7,975 1990 Wilson Aluminum 7X24 Stock Trailer, 1 center ga local trade ........................................................................................................$7,995 Deluxe Portable 16’roll X-Flow Tub, 8’door, HYD 2000V Deluxe with Head Head SweepHydraulic With Adjustable 90 Wilson Aluminum 7X24 Stock Trailer, 1 center gate rear gate with roll-up rear up door, Local Trade! ....................................................................... $8,995 Slider And Slam Latch, Local Trade In, Excellent Condition ......................... $7,975 local trade ......................................................................

Alley, Quick Catch Squeeze Chute Squeezew/Tractor Chute With Vet Up Cage & trade ................................................................. $12,775 Portable Hook $12,975 rlrtable & VetLoading Cage al trade ........................................................................................................$7,995 with Head Holder Head Sweep $16,975 With Adjustable $4,775 1989 Wilson 7X24 Aluminum Trailer, 2pairs divider gates to make compartments, 1989 4 Star 3 Horse Stock Rear tack, front dressing area…………………….…...….. w/ A/Cw/Tractor &3weekender package ck w/ sliders to150make Portable Hook2Up $12,975 - capacity of cow/calf3pairs or up to 300-800 # calves or Super Large – capacity of 250 cow/calf or 7X24 up to 500-800# calves. Hook Tractor upTrailer, .........…. $13,975 r & Trailer, Vet Cage 2 center gates Large 1989 Wilson Aluminum Stock divider ga 2006 Featherlite 7X24 Aluminum Stock Trailer, 2 center gates w/ sliders to make 3 rear roll up door, Local Trade! ....................................................................... $8,995 89 Wilson 7X24 Aluminum Stock Trailer, 2 divider gates to make 3 compartments, all new tires, trailer is in EXCELLENT condition! ........................................... $9,975 one center gate and slider to make two equal …………………….…...….. $16,975 Electric …..…....… $14,975 $4,775 No Lifting or Levers, No Climbing Over Panels, Multiple Pens for Sorting, Works on Uneven Ground, 1 Man Set-Up, ConvertsLocal to Alley for Use w/ Motor rear roll up door, Trade! ....................................... ...................................................... $12,775 r roll up door, Local Trade! ....................................................................... $8,995 Tractor Hook up .........…. $13,975 equal compartments, local trade ................................................................. $12,775 Gas Motor ………..……… $15,275 Squeeze Chute or$10,975 Loading Chute, Corral has Built-In Adjustable Alleyway, Transferrable at Highway Speeds ...........................................................................

19933 Kiefer Stock Trailer, one center gate to&make 2 compartments, Electric Motor …..…....… $14,975 rea 1989 4 Star Horse6’8”X20’ Rear tack, front dressing area w/ A/C weekender package, 1989 4 Star 3 Horse Rear tack, front dressing area w Gas Motor ………..……… $15,275 89 4 Star 3 Horse Rear tack, front dressing areaall w/new A/C tires, &gate weekender package, with slider & slam latch, steel tread plat floor........................................ $2,975 trailer is in EXCELLENT condition! ........................................... $9,975 r........................................................................... gate and towithmake two equal 2003 Exissslider onecondition! center gate and slider to make two equal all new tires, trailer is in EXCELLENT condition! ........... new tires, trailer is 7X20 in EXCELLENT ........................................... $9,975 $10,975 NEW$10,975 Arrow NEW Arrow Farmquip NEW Arrow$10,975 Farmquip 1980 Hale 6’8”x20’ w/Farmquip one gate ................................................................... $1,700 ...................................................... compartments .............................................................................................

Kiefer 6’8”X20’Stationary Stock Trailer, one center to make compartments, 1993 Kiefergate 6’8”X20’ Stock2 Trailer, gate to Loading Chute Alleyway Loadingone Chutecenterrear  93 Kiefer 6’8”X20’ Stock Trailer, one center gate1993 to make 2 compartments, rear gate with & slam latch, steel tread plat floor ........ um 6’8” X &20 one center gate to make two equal gate with 1987 sliderKiefer & slam latch, steel tread plat flslider oor........................................ $2,975 16’ $2,975 Ramp with 5’ Straight Section, e with slider slam latch, steel tread plat fl oor ........................................

6’8”X20’ with one gate slider.................................................... $1,975 26’ Adjustable Stationary Alley 12’ Portable Loading Chute  Super Heavy Duty Construction, 2003 Titan Horselocal ..................................................................................... $10,975 ...................................................... with slider, one 4owner trade $8,475 With Adjustable Floor & Vet with 2 .........................

Rolling$10,975 Doors ..….

22” Wide Cat Walk, Exit Door, 1980w/Hale one gate ...................................

Cage 1980 Hale 6’8”x20’ w/ one gate $1,700 80 Hale 6’8”x20’ w/ one gate ................................................................... $1,700 1993 Travalong 7X16 (3)...................................................................

Horse front6’8”x20’ dressingw/ room, stall dividers, lights, brakes Rubber Dock Bumpers, Ribbed 16’ Adjustable Stationary Alley Checker Plate Floor, Built In Landing work.

Recent service on wheel bearings, good tires .................................... $1,975 2004 Travalong Aluminum 6’8” X 20 doors, one center gate to make two equal 1987 Kiefer 6’8”X20’ with one gate slider.................... with Rolling Door ..…..…. nt Rear Tack, rear ramp, drop down feed front Flap For Safe Loading Of Stock 20Kiefer one 6’8”X20’ center gate to gate make two equal 1987 Kiefer 6’8”X20’ 87 with one slider.................................................... $1,975 with one gate slider.................................................... $1,975 compartments, rear gate with slider, one owner local trade ......................... $8,475 ........................................................................ $1,475 ocal tradelocal ............................................................. e owner trade ......................... $8,475 $9,875 1978 W W Stock Trailer, gray1993 Travalong 7X16 (3) Horse w/ front dressing room 93 Travalong 7X16 (3) Horse w/ front dressing room, dividers, lights, brakes 1993stall Travalong 7X16 (3) Horse w/ front dressing room,on stall dividers, lights, brakes work.

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Recent service on wheel bearings, good tires .................................... $1,975 1978 Sundowner Steel Stock Trailer 1 center divider gate,good rear tires gate .... w 2001 Exiss 3 Horse Slant Rear Tack, rear ramp, drop down feed doors, front ront Tack, dressing room, carpeted saddle work.

Recent service on bearings, good6’X16’, tires .................................... $1,975 NEW Arrownose, Farmquipcouch, NEWwheel Arrow Farmquip slider, decent older trailer .............................................................................. $1,475 k, rear ramp, drop room, down local feed doors, front NEW Arrow Farmquip 8400 Quick-Catch Chute Hydraulic Squeeze Chute carpeted dressing trade ............................................................. $9,875 1978 W W Stock Trailer, grayPortable ........................................ o tack, midTrailer, tack w/ saddle rack, drop down windows, 78mid WW Stock gray ........................................................................ $1,475 Tub, Alley & HYD 2000V Deluxe Hydraulic 1978 W W Stock Trailer, gray ........................................................................

Chutegate$1,475 Squeeze Chute With VetTrailer, Cage & center divider gate w/ slider, rear 8400 Series Deluxe$9,875 Quick-Catch $10,975 1988 Kiefer 7X20 Stock w/ slider /........................................................ saddle rack ......................................................

1978 Sundowner Steel Stock Trailer 6’X16’, 1 cent Squeeze Chute With Palp Cage Head Sweep 78 2001 Sundowner Trailer 6’X16’, 1 center divider gate, rear gate w/saddle ........................................................................................................................

Exiss 3Steel HorseStock w/ Front Tack, dressing room, carpeted nose, couch, Deluxe Portable 16’ X-Flow Tub, $1,775 & Head Holder • Portable w/Tractor Hook Up slider, decent older trailer ..............................................

Sundowner Steel Stock Trailer 6’X16’, 1 center divider gate, rear gate w/ er,rack, decent older trailerdoor .............................................................................. $1,475 • Stationary • Tractor Hookwindows, up walk through to mid tack, mid tack 1978 w/ saddle rack, drop down 8’ Alley, Quick Catch Squeeze essing room, carpeted nose, couch, saddle • Electric Motor • Portable slider, decent older trailer .............................................................................. $1,475 WRANGLER 3-PEN SETUP PORTABLE CORAL Chute with Head Holder & rear tack w/center saddle rack ......................................................

• Gasslider Motor $10,975 1988 Kiefer 7X20 Stock Trailer, center divider gate w/ id rubber tack w/mats saddle rack, drop downdivider windows, 88 Kiefer 7X20 Stock Trailer, gateLarge w/ slider, rear gate of w/ - capacity 150 cow/calf pairs or up to 300-800 # calves or ........................................................................................ .................................................................................................................. $1,775 ...................................................... $10,975 1988 Kiefer 7X20 Stock Trailer, center divider gate w/ slider, rear gate w/ slider

Stock Combo options – plexiglass, 7x20 Exiss Stock Combo ...$16,975 24 2 radial Compartments, Slam on 75 Exiss, belted tires .......... $19,975 475 slider and slam gates, 56” Escape/4 Wheeler Door .........$15,575 d steel year steel mats, brush tray,7x24 bridle Exis 56” Ecsape/4 Wheeler Gate Latch & Spare Tirerubber ................$14,975 slider and slam latch on alllatch gates, all 56” Escape/4 WheelerDoor, DoorRear .........$15,575 

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Super Large - capacity of 250 cow/calf pairs or up to 500-800 # calves. ........................................................................................................................ $1,775 WRANGLER 3-PEN SETUP PORTABLE

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Large - capacity of 150 cow/calf pairschute, or up corral to 300-800 # set-up, converts to alley for use w/ squeeze chute or loading has builtacity of 150 cow/calf pairs or up toWRANGLER 300-800 1#man calves or 3-PEN SETUP PORTABLE CORAL adjustable alleyway, transferrable at highway speeds Super Large - capacity of 250 cow/calf pairs or up to 500 e - capacity of 250 cow/calf pairs or up to 500-800 # calves.

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PHOTO COURTESY NASA. EASTERN WYOMING, WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA, OCT. 6, 2013

Rancher Relief Fund Statistics

The Rancher Relief Fund was started Oct. 8 by the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association, South Dakota Sheep Growers’ Association and South Dakota Stockgrowers’ Association in response to questions about where people could donate to affected cattle producers. The funds were managed and distributed by Black Hills Area Community Foundation, Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Social Services.

Raised more than $5.4 million in seven months

Gifts

Average gift $720 Median gift $150 Smallest gift $1 Largest gift $100,000

48% of gifts came from South Dakota 13% of gifts came from seven counties in western South Dakota Gifts came from all 50 states and several foreign countries

Top 10 states

South Dakota 48% Wyoming 8% Montana 6% California 5% North Dakota 4% Nebraska 4% Minnesota 4% Iowa 3% Colorado 3% Texas 2%

Reported losses

35,682 cattle in South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming 6,428 sheep lost No formal report of other animals An average of $128 per animal* lost was donated to Rancher Relief Fund

*Cattle and sheep that were officially reported. Not all livestock losses were reported.

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This isn’t much, but all I can afford. Sorry for all the problems and losses to all. Former dairy farmer in Snohomish County, Wash.

Our hearts go out to the South Dakota Ranchers. God bless you.

Kentucky is praying.

Le††ers from donors

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For the ranchers and farmers who lost so much. I admire them for their hard work, patriotism, and honesty. God bless them all.

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Hello Friends!

As being a farmer, my heart was touched when I heard of the storm you all had out your way. Here is a gift to help out a little.

May God bless you, as you look to him for help.

Sorry to hear of your losses. We also raise cattle and are thinking housands offolks. people contributed time and money to the about you We hope things get better for you.

Rancher Relief Fund. A few of them shared a bit of their Please use the enclosed to help the many ranchers that had terrible losses of livestock in the Oct. blizzard. I grew up on a ranchthey in SW are not alone in own stories, letting ranchers know Kansas and can understand their stress. the struggle. More than 500 letters came with donations, telling Spent most of my life in the cow/calf operations. My heart breaks of other blizzards, of cattlemen, childhoods on ranchfor thesememories people. Prayers and hugs. es or just plainIappreciation for what ranchers do. was devastated to hear about the enormous livestock losses from the Atlas Blizzard that hit Western South Dakota in early October.

Not only the direct monetary losses, but also the years of genetThis isn’t much, but all I can afford. Sorry for all the problems ly October. Not only the direct monetary losses, but also the years ics, breeding, care and maintenance that go into building a herd of and losses to all. Former dairy farmer in Snohomish County, of genetics, breeding, care and maintenance that go into building a cattle as well as the emotional toll of losing such a big part of their Wash. herd of cattle as well as the emotional toll of losing such a big part of lives. I was born in South Dakota, went to undergrad at SDSU and their lives. I was born in South Dakota, went to undergrad at SDSU am now attending grad school here, so I love South Dakota and I Our hearts go out to the South Dakota Ranchers. God bless and am now attending grad school here, so I love South Dakota and have a lot of pride in this state. I have several friends that ranch you. Kentucky is praying.

I have a lot of pride in this state. I have several friends that ranch West River and have had several jobs out there myself, so I underWest River and have had several jobs out there myself, so I understand the terrain and how bad blizzards can be in that country. I For the ranchers and farmers who lost so much. I admire stand the terrain and how bad blizzards can be in that country. I was disappointed in the coverage by the national media and the rethem for their hard work, patriotism, and honesty. God bless was disappointed in the coverage by the national media and the reaction by much of the unknowing public. So I want to do my part by them all. action by much of the unknowing public. So I want to do my part by making a contribution to the Relief Fund and I have enclosed a domaking a contribution to the Relief Fund and I have enclosed a donation check. I know that the farmers and ranchers will come back Hello Friends! nation check. I know that the farmers and ranchers will come back strong, but everyone needs help from time to time and that’s what As being a farmer, my heart was touched when I heard of the strong, but everyone needs help from time to time and that’s what South Dakota is about, helping neighbors and friends when they storm you all had out your way. Here is a gift to help out a little. South Dakota is about, helping neighbors and friends when they are in need.

May God bless you, as you look to him for help. are in need.

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DearWe South Ranchers, Sorry to hear of your losses. alsoDakota raise cattle and are Dear South Dakota Ranchers, My name is Brandon Weber.

5 years I watched a video thinking about you folks. We hope things get better for you. I am My nameold. is Brandon Weber.

I am 5 years old. I watched a video with with my mommy about the cows that died in the storm.

It made me died in the storm. It made me very my mommy about the cows that sad.many I cried.

It madethat me had think sad. about losingItmy calf,me Sophie.

Please use the enclosed to very help the ranchers I cried. made thinkI about losing my calf, Sophie. I am you theI grew money piggy bank.

I hope it will help terrible losses of livestock in am thesending Oct. blizzard. upfrom on amysending you the money from my piggy bank. I hope it will help you you buy more cows.

I’m sorry that all those cows died.

My mommy ranch in SW Kansas and can understand their stress. buy more cows. I’m sorry that all those cows died. My mommy and I and I will keep you in our thoughts and prayers.

Love, Brandon will keep you in our thoughts and prayers. Love, Brandon (IMG_1510) Spent most of my life in the cow/calf operations. My heart

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My wife and I cannot imagine the stress and anguish your breaks for these people. Prayers and hugs.

My wife and I cannot image the stress and anguish yourthrough ranchers ranchers are going after their horrific loss. We’ve gone are going through after their horrific loss.

We’ve gone through 3 I was devastated to hear about the enormous livestock losses through 3 years of drought conditions, but would pale next to your years of drought pale next your situation. from the Atlas Blizzard that hit Western Southconditions, Dakota in but ear-would situation.

MaytoGod Bless!

May God Bless!

I have been a beef cow producer in S.E. Oklahoma for over 40 years.

I have lost cattle due to winter storms a few times but nothing compared to what these ranchers have lost. My sympathy goes out to

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I have been a beef cow producer in S.E. Oklahoma for over 40 years. I have lost cattle due to winter storms a few times but nothing compared to what these ranchers have lost. My sympathy goes out to them.

I lived in Sturgis for a short time in 1961. I really enjoyed touring the whole area and have returned a number of times. I hope to do so again soon.

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We have been in the ranching business all of our lives. Every year brings another challenge. These past few years ours has been DROUGHT!!--the other end of the spectrum.

Wish we could send more but wanted folks up there to know that we care.

nation is a great place to live. We all pull together in natural disasters.

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My father was a rancher from age 6 to 81. He loved his land, cattle, and horses. He would have been first in line to help the many ranchers who lost stock in the recent storm.

It is in his honor that we enclose our contribution to the Rancher Relief Fund.

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I was born in South Dakota and raised on a farm. My dad raised Angus cattle. When I read of Storm Atlas that hit your area in October it brought back memories of the 1966 blizzard. I remember what joy it brought me and my siblings to sled down those big drifts but I also remember the sadness from the loss From one cowman to another. Hope this helps out a little. The of cattle. So, my heart goes out to all of those who have lost so cattle business is hard enough without natural disasters. much, possibly their livelihood.

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Our hearts go out to all who are facing such tough times. We are My father was a rancher/farmer in Charles Mix and died so grateful for the ranchers who do so much to take care of the ani- in October at the age of 89. His love of land, livestock and horsmals and the land. We hope this can be of use. es continued to the very end. He was riding and green-trained a gelding just a year ago. I hope this small amount will help a As a sixty some year old rancher that has gone through 40 some rancher in need. These are memorials from the funeral. I know calving seasons, I know the hole in your heart left by just one calf my father would be happy that these monies were donated to dying. I cannot begin to imagine how those Black Hills ranchers Rancher Relief Fund. could deal (emotionally or financially) with a huge percentage of their herds lost to the storm. Even a 10 percent loss would be too We are sorry for your great losses. Our family lived in South much, say nothing of a 75-85 percent loss. The average person (non Dakota for a few years. We love the area and the people. The livestock person) doesn’t understand that the loss isn’t just finan- generosity and kindness given to us while we lived in South cial, but it’s also a life. And to an old rancher when you see those Dakota have not been forgotten. We hope this little amount of cows, you can remember their mothers and their grandmothers money helps. It is sent with love and admiration. (gone many years earlier) because those cows are like your family.

I hope there will be enough help available so that any of those young My husband died just a year ago. His cattle was his life. Our guys can keep ranching if they want to and the older guys can re- grandson is just getting started. Blessings. gain some of their retirement nest egg that they worked so hard I got $10 from my church for Christmas. We were supposed their whole life to obtain. to pay it forward. I also decided to give $5 of my own money. The I have been around for many years (94) and recall the BIG De- reason I picked to give it to the Rancher Relief Fund is because pression of the ’30s and the ’49 Blizzard.

I like farming and they lost a lot of money. Some also lost their

My check doesn’t begin to cover anything like that but every dreams of being a big cattle rancher. I hope this money helps a little bit helps. farmer get back on track.

We lived in R.C. during the ’49 disaster and owned what is now “Tally’s” Restaurant. The day after the storm my husband I was part of a bus tour from Dayton, Ohio, stranded in Stwalked to the café from our trailer park where Fischer Furniture is urgis for three days during the snowstorm. While we were inconvenienced for a few days, I’m sure it was nothing compared now (on W. Main and Jackson Boulevard). to the hardships all of you endured. I’m sending you my payers I’ve been a farmer for over 50 years and am still active farming along with a donation. I hope it helps a little. with my son on the family farm near Tabor, S.D. My heart goes out to all the ranchers that have sustained great losses. Our state and Wish we could do more—Pushing our legislators to approve a

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new Farm Bill is big and we will direct our ef- we too farm and ranch here in Western Kan- can’t imagine what it would be like to lose so forts toward that. The sad thing is we already sas. Every time I watch a video or read of their many. I pray for God’s presence.

have the support of our legislators—it’s the idiots on the two coasts who we need to convince.

As a breeder of registered Holsteins I can only imagine the grief and sense of loss these cattlemen and women are feeling. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them all.

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Enclosed please find a check for the ranchers in South Dakota. I wish we could send more as I know this will hardly be of any help.

My husband and I visited the Black Hills area a couple summers ago and fell in love with the beauty of the state.

We are so devastated by their losses as

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losses I just cry! Please tell them we are prayMy heart goes out to the South Dakota ing and thinking of them all! ranchers that lost so much in the early Oct. My brother and I traveled thru South Da- blizzard. We experienced that in the April kota just a few days before your bad weather. 3-day storm of 1984. I wish I could send some We talked to several farmers and ranchers more but hopefully the check enclosed will and every one took time to visit and answer help some. God bless these friends. our many questions. (He is a retired dairy farmer from northern New York and I’m a re- To our neighbors in South Dakota— tired dairy supply dealer from southern NY.) As children of homesteaders in Campbell Co. Wy, we have seen, felt and picked up the pieces Enclosed is a little something. after Mother Nature’s fury. We both wish all Our hearts go out to these folks. Our lives afflicted by the recent killer storm the very are geared toward caring for these cattle. I best of luck in re-capturing your lives and future. At 79 and 83 years old we can’t come help, but hope the check enclosed helps a little.

Keep your chins and spirits up. You all already know how to work and plan. Keep at it—don’t give up. All our best.

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I’m a farmer and cattle producer in west central Illinois. When I heard of the devastating storm and the tremendous loss of your cattle herds I was devastated. I feel terrible when I lose just one baby calf at birth, I can only imagine how you must feel. What little monetary help I can send must seem insignificant but I had to do something, just some small thing.

Know that I will keep all of you in my thoughts and prayers, and pray that somehow God will give you the courage and strength you need to carry you through this disastrous time.

Just remember God never closes a door without opening another. God bless all of you, and I wish you as speedy a recovery as possible.

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We farm in NY. Weather been tough but not as bad as yours.

This comes from a 89 yr young lady that was born on the banks of Sulphur Creek, Newell, S.D. that knows what hardships are.

We just celebrated sixty (60) years of marriage. Some folks ignored the request of “no gifts please” and gave us money.

We decided to donate the money to our fellow South Dakotans who have lost so much.

We know it’s not much, but every little bit helps.

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This isn’t much, but all I can afford. Sorry for all the problems and losses to all. Former dairy farmer in Snohomish County, Wash.

Our hearts go out to the South Dakota Ranchers. God bless you.

Kentucky is praying.

Ranchers say t hanks

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Hello Friends!

As being a farmer, my heart was touched when I heard of the storm you all had out your way. Here is a gift to help out a little.

May God bless you, as you look to him for help.

Sorry to hear of your losses. We also raise cattle and are thinking here has been a spirit offorthankfulness and appreabout you folks. We hope things get better you. ciationPlease among the ranching community, but most use the enclosed to help the many ranchers that had terrible losses of livestock in the Oct. blizzard. I grew up on a ranch in SW haven’t had a chance to get that message to the peoKansas and can understand their stress. ple who donated to the Rancher Relief Fund and other projSpent most of my life in the cow/calf operations. My heart breaks these people.of Prayers and hugs. ects. Here areforsome the thank-you letters the organizaI was devastated to hear about Rancher the enormous livestock losses from tions that administered the Relief Fund received. the Atlas Blizzard that hit Western South Dakota in early October.

Not only the direct monetary losses, but also the years of genet-

There is one word that can come close to describing Thanks for the support. I’m a young rancher trying to ics, breeding, care and maintenance that go into building a herd of the caring and love that have given to emotional those of us build a herd 25% of my cows was devastating. cattlebeen as well as the toll of losing such aand big losing part of their who lost livestock during lives.

Atlas.

“Awesome.”

Awesome The money will help make I was born in South Dakota, went to undergrad at SDSU andmy cattle payment, which are is the amount of time given others.

Awesome is the nosolonger alive due to the I greatly appreciate it. amby now attending grad school here, I love South Dakota and storm.

I giving of livestock. Awesome theofamount of dollars Thanks again. have is a lot pride in this state. I have several friends that ranch West River hadus several that came with each fundraiser.

Godand hashave given awe- jobs out there myself, so I undertheMay terrain and howsomebad blizzards can be of in that country. Ithat went through the storm We are one the families some people to care aboutstand others. it be said was disappointed in the coverage by the national media and the reon Oct. 4, 2013.

We have wanted to thank everyone that day that we did something awesome for someone else. action by much of the unknowing public.

So I want to do my part by Time helps to heal and we look forward to the future. volunteered and donated money for the Ranchers Relief making a contribution to the Relief Fund and I have enclosed a doFund. We know how many hours it has to have taken for Thanks and prayers to all nation of you.check. I know that the farmers and ranchers will come back just your part in all of this and we wanted to say thank strong, but everyone needs help from time to time and that’s what Ranchers are typically very strong andisproud don’tneighbors you. This us a side of people we someSouth Dakota about,and helping and storm friends showed when they ask for help. It took us a long time are in need.to do this as we felt times forget-- loving spirits. Our neighbors and friends that the younger people just starting out needed more and families helped us so much, just like you know they help than us. Everything that given to Ranchers, us from the would do. But the support and help we received from Dearwas South Dakota fund was much more thanMy wename ever imagined. is Brandon Weber. I am people 5 years we old.do I watched a video not even know was overwhelming. One of with my mommy about the cows that died in the storm.

It made

We will continue on and recoup in a few years. our neighbors told us thatme the way to say thank you to evabout losing calf, Sophie.

This will help us do that. very sad. I cried. It made me thinkeryone is tomy pass that helpI on. Because of you, we were sending youwho the money from piggy bank. I hope it will help

We will not forget allam the people donated somyable to do just that the other day, and I have to tell you, you buy more cows. I’m sorry that all those cows died. My mommy generously to the fund and will be carrying forward the it felt good to be able to pass help on when it was needed. and I will keep you in our thoughts and prayers. Love, Brandon generosity that was given to us.

Know that God has a special place for you all.

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My wife and I cannot image the stress and anguish your ranchers are going through after their horrific loss. We’ve gone through 3 years of drought conditions, but would pale next to your situation.

May God Bless!

I have been a beef cow producer in S.E. Oklahoma for over 40 years.

I have lost cattle due to winter storms a few times but nothing compared to what these ranchers have lost. My sympathy goes out to

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I am very grateful for the people who have donated money, cattle and time to help the ranchers who were hit hard by the blizzard. The people who worked hard to raise the money for us shows how good this country is.

Just want to take a minute to thank you for the Ranchers Relief Funds you allowed for me. It is of more help than you can know! I can’t thank the donors who so generously cared about helping us. But I can thank you for sending some of that help my way. It was very much needed and appreciated. Thank you to God who someThank you for the check from the Ranchers Relief times does work in mysterious ways! He is good!

Fund. We sure appreciate it-- helped make a terrible Thank you-- thank you from the bottom of our hearts year a little bit better!

Once again, thank you to all involved in this, it has for the kindness and support of so many caring people during our time of loss. sure helped.

[Name withheld] has been fighting cancer this A big thank you to Ranchers Relief Fund and all in- past year and the loss of so many of his cows was devvolved. I don’t know how we can ever get the word out astating. We aren’t going to quit though-- we are graduto all the people that donated, but hopefully they know ally rebuilding our herd-- we are using this money to that it is appreciated. help with that-- so thank you again!

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Thank you so much for the kind donation. It has been My wife didn’t have much money to spend for Christput to good use. mas. When I got the phone call about having a check in the mail two days after Christmas it made tears come A heartfelt thank you to the donations that set up this to my eyes. It was such a wonderful feeling to know fund for those of us who lost cattle in the blizzard. We that other people cared. do appreciate the $ but also the caring thoughts and words of others is a great boost to our morale. Your sup- Thank you so much for money we received through port is a blessing and certainly is appreciated. your relief fund. It has been an answer to prayers on how we are going to get through this, and make payYesterday when we checked the mailbox we were ments and pay bills. God is watching over us. It doesn’t completely overwhelmed to receive a check from the block out the memories of the agony the livestock went Rancher Relief Fund. Words are inadequate to express through, but it does let us know that others are sharing our thanks for the generosity that has been extended that pain. Thank you again. to us. May God bless all the people who donated and the people associated with the rancher relief. We have We would like to send a heartfelt thank you for the been truly blessed. money. We are looking forward to buying some bred cows to replace what we lost in the blizzard. I can’t tell I don’t know how to thank you for sending the money to you how much it meant to us--what the wonderful genhelp us but we truly thank you and in time perhaps we erosity of so many people means. It gives us hope for can help someone else. We are very grateful. We were better days ahead. Bless you and everybody-- we are so very devastated, but you brought some sunshine. appreciative and grateful.

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BY HEATHER HAMILTON-MAUDE For Tri-State Livestock News

Ty and Rosalie

Linger

THE FACES BEHIND HEIFERS FOR SOUTH DAKOTA

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eet the faces behind the Heifers for South Dakota program.

Ty and Rosalie Linger, along with sons Dec, Uriah and a third child due in January, 2015, operate a historic ranching operation near Miles City, Mont. with Ty’s parents. The couple said God planted the idea of Heifers for South Dakota in their hearts following the Atlas blizzard, and they are continually amazed at what he has accomplished with the program over the past year.

The stories of lost cattle during the Atlas blizzard carried extra weight for Ty and Rosalie Linger, young ranchers just getting started in Montana.

The Lingers turned their empathy into action, creating the Heifers for South Dakota program that collected about 1,150 head of animals and delivered them into the corrals of producers who suffered losses in the Atlas blizzard.

Ty and Rosalie were in their second year of taking over the reins from Ty’s parents on a historic Montana operation when they felt called to help their fellow ranchers.

“The ranch we’re on was put together by my great-grandpa John Herzog during the Great Depression. He was a Swiss German who came from Switzerland in 1914 or 1915 and started working for a local dairy here in Miles City,” said Ty. “He slept under the train depot the night he got in because he only had 25 cents, which was enough for either a meal or a room – he decided the meal was more important.”

Located just east of Miles City and made up of several homesteads John purchased when the owners were unable to pay their taxes, in the early 1930s the operation

was one of the premier dairies in all of Montana.

“They were milking 60-70 cows at the time, and there were big, beautiful red barns with the wooden shingles everywhere. Great-grandpa was known for being intelligent and an incredible worker – 18 hour days were the norm for him,” said Ty. John’s son, Ty’s grandfather on his mother’s side, Paul Herzog, bought the place from his father around 1960. Some of his workers were young men who were serving time at a nearby youth correctional facility.

“They would run machinery, feed hogs and milk cows. Granddad said he would only ever leave the keys in one vehicle, in case a boy decided to run, and the vehicle would only have a half gallon of gas. He found it humorous that if they ever tried it, they wouldn’t get very far,” said Ty.

In the difficult 1980s Paul sold much of his equipment and livestock when the bank foreclosed. But, it coincided with Ty’s dad’s side of the family selling their rodeo company, and having the funds to buy a portion of the ranch back.

“My dad, Paul Linger, was a rodeo competitor and has been to the NFR three

Ty and Rosalie Linger’s operation has been in Ty’s family for four generations, and is still owned by Ty’s grandpa. It is comprised of 14 sections of pastureland and 150 irrigated acres, which are used for hay production.

While it is a cow-calf operation today, the ranch began as a dairy under the care of Ty’s great grandfather John Herzog, who migrated to the U.S. from Switzerland in the early 1900s.

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times in bareback riding. He and his dad Sonny owned and operated Linger Rodeo Company and put on rodeos all across the nation – Houston, Denver, the rough stock finals.

“In 1984, Grandpa Sonny was ready to be done with that end of things, so the rodeo company was sold and mom and dad were wondering what they were going to do.

When Grandpa Paul had to sell out, they decided to try being on the ranch a while, and 30 years later it’s working out really well,” said Ty.

Now operated as a cow-calf herd, the drought years of 2011 and 2012 hit the ranch hard.

When a high percentage of their herd came in dry in 2012, Ty’s parents decided to sell their cows and give Ty and Rosalie a chance at making it work.

“Going into 2013 things were tight and we weren’t sure what would happen. We were down to three hay bales, and it was looking like if we didn’t get any rain by mid to late May, we were going to have to sell the rest of the cows. There was literally nothing to eat. Then, the third weekend of May, the weekend of the Miles City Bucking Horse Sale, which we’ve been involved with for 42 years, it rained and rained and rained,” said Ty.

The grass came on and it ended up being one of the best years anyone had ever seen in the area. Breed ups were exceptional that fall and calves sold high.

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“It was our first year of doing things and it was an incredible year. We were so excited in the way anyone is in the cattle business when it all comes together, and we had been so richly blessed.

“When we heard about Atlas and started seeing the pictures and hearing what they had lost, our hearts just broke.

They lost not only their lifestyle, but their lives – you pour so much of yourself into your cattle that they become your life, and seeing those pictures and hearing the magnitude of what some folks had gone through gave us the conviction that we had to do something,” said Ty.

He and Rosalie discussed the idea of sending money, but something about it didn’t feel right for them. So they prayed and talked and came to the decision to donate one of their best bred heifers and to challenge some other folks to do the same.

“One of the Bible verses that spoke to me was Galatians 6:10. ‘Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.’ And we thought what an incredible opportunity this is for us to do just that. So I asked Rosalie, ‘How do I work this Facebook thing?’ She wasn’t sure either but we fumbled around and figured that part out,

“Right now it’s so cool to think about how high calf prices are, and know the boost those cattle will give people when they sell this fall. I’m excited about them selling the calves off their donated cows and heifers, and I just hope they all bring a lot of money.”

— Rosalie Linger, on one of her favorite parts of the Heifers for South Dakota program.

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and by Tuesday night the week after the blizzard we had started Heifers for South Dakota. The original thought was to get 1215 head of bred heifers, maybe with a few heifer calves mixed in, and that I would go around and pick them up with my gooseneck, take care of the paperwork, and hand them out to 12-15 guys who were affected by the storm. That would be pretty cool,” said Ty with a laugh.

He said God had other plans. The second heifer was donated within the first five hours of the program going online, with a third being promised on day three. By day five more than 15 head had been promised.

“We had over 100 head within a week, and it just kept snowballing. By the time of our first delivery just before Thanksgiving we had over 600 head, and by the time we finished in June with the heifer calves that had been wintered, synched and AI’d, we were right around 1,150 head from over 400 different donors,” said Ty.

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“We had such a great fall that we were able to dedicate all of our time to Heifers for South Dakota until the first part of December, when we started feeding cows. After that it was tough, and calving this spring included a week where it was not fun, but it was worth it,” said Rosalie.

Ty added that they never would have survived without the many volunteers who oversaw various parts of the program. They are particularly grateful for Shane and Amanda Labrier and Doug and Kim Shepherd for shouldering much of the workload at times. Living in the same yard as Ty’s parents was another blessing as they helped with a lot of the ranch work, young boy wrangling, and phone calls associated with Heifers for South Dakota over the past year.

“I feel God would have accomplished this with or without us. We could have said no and he was still going to get this done. He presented the opportunity to us, put the calling in our hearts and we said yes and tried to be faithful. We give all the glory to him, and we know he is who accomplished it.

We are just humbled to think we were given the chance to take it on, witness it and experience the tremendous blessing it has been to us. Looking back on what has happened, there is no way we could do that,” said Ty. Someone recently asked Ty if, giv en the chance, would he and Rosalie do it again. “In a heartbeat,” he replied. “It was amazing even as it was draining and time consuming. What a big thing it was – an awesome, incredible, emotional blessing to be a part of and witness. We would do it again in a heartbeat.”

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BY CARRIE STADHEIM

he old timers say they’ve never seen such a thing. They’ve seen colder storms, ones that lasted longer and dropped more snow. But they’ve never before seen one that killed livestock the way last October’s storm did. Young and old were dumbfounded, weak and broken at the sights they saw and the pain they contemplated in the moments during and after the blizzard when the animals were discovered, one by one, or in some cases, hundreds at a time.

But then the help arrived. Droves of people worked behind the scenes, hoping to somehow heal wounds and mend hearts after the “Atlas” blizzard left carnage never before seen in cattle country.

Across the Dakotas, Wyoming and Nebraska people said they’d never before seen such an effort to offer support for the brokenhearted.

Whether separated by a fence, a township or hundreds of miles, the cattle industry is truly a community of unique yet similar individuals. Seasons come and go, cattle markets rise and fall, cattle trends change but independent ranchers keep ranching, helping one another brand, gather, ship and fix fence.

“Neighboring” is usually fun, but sometimes means doing the unbearable, witnessing the unimaginable and silently but willingly helping with the unthinkable. Seeing precious lives come to an end and cleaning up the aftermath is difficult. A grim and unspoken agreement is made to move ahead, clear the slate and think of the future.

But the past isn’t forgotten.

The following stories are shared by those who won’t forget the hurt and the devastation, but picked out the good, the encouragement, the hand up that made a difference. We hope this helps make the looking back hurt a little less.

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Survivor Profile

BY CARRIE STADHEIM

Tyler and Tiffani

Robertson Hermosa, S.D.

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ike so many of the ranchers across the plains that suffered loss during the Atlas storm, Tyler and Tiffani Robertson from the Hermosa, S.D., area are more concerned about their friends and neighbors than themselves.

“The people I feel sorry for are those that had their cattle mortgaged,” Tyler said.

Tiffani credits her husband for good management that allowed them, financially and mentally, to weather the storm better than some. “We are fortunate, Tyler has done a good job of keeping us out of debt. We didn’t have many mortgaged cattle, we’ve been in it long enough that most of our cattle are home raised.” That low debt ratio allowed the couple to be in a position to buy some cattle soon after the storm.

Moving on has not been a quick or easy task for the couple that lost about half of their cattle during the October 2013 storm, but they remain optimistic.

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“But we’ve been very resilient, we’ve got enough hope in humanity and we are young enough that in a couple years we hope to be back in good shape.” ~Tiffani Robertson

“Tyler was still burying cattle out there at the end of April. It Livestock the second week in November. was finally dry enough to get into some of the deep draws,” Tiffani “We are blessed. It just warms your heart how ranchers come said. “But we’ve been very resilient, we’ve got enough hope in hu- together to help each other.” manity and we are young enough that in a couple years we hope to be back in good shape.”

The couple said they bought or held back some cattle, but are still able to give their pastures a needed rest while putting up some extra hay this year.

They are grateful to the Rancher Relief Fund contributors and neighbors, near and far who made the effort to heal the hurt in cattle country. “They came together with food, medicine, cattle, cash. It is amazing how they pulled together to help put people back on their feet,” Tiffani said.

“We were fortunate enough to receive a number of heifers from the Heifers for South Dakota program. They were beautiful,” said Tiffani.

The Robertsons gave back too, spending a day working donated heifers for others. Then Tyler spent two days hauling donated heifers to recipients. “It was rewarding, just seeing how hard everyone was working to get cattle out to other people, they were all friends of ours,” he said.

In preparation for the storm, the Robertsons had sorted cattle and put them in pastures with good natural protection the day before the rain hit.

“After the storm cleared we saw calves where they shouldn’t be and we knew that was bad. We saddled horses and headed out.”

Tiffani said they found their horses caught between a deep draw and the creek. “We couldn’t believe they were alive. It was amazing they hadn’t pushed each other off into the creek, there was hardly room to turn around.

“Once we dug out our horses, we just rode for days and days TOP: The Dickinson, N.D. Rough trying to gather cattle. They were scattered for 20 miles, just like Rider’s Rodeo Committee & Commission got together and everyone else’s. We just started helping neighbors gather cattle as donated a black baldy heifer. we went. “ Tyler has been a pick-up man at

But the Robertsons are looking ahead, not behind. their rodeo for 18 years. MIDDLE:

The replacement heifers they bought are turning out well for Crew working and delivering heifers for the Heifers for South them, they had a good grass, hay and water year and the market is Dakota program. BOTTOM: as strong as they’ve ever seen it.

Robertsons’ horses were freed

“We are looking forward to gathering our calves this fall.” As after storm Atlas. is tradition, the couple will sell calves with Tyler’s folks in Philip

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Survivor Profile

BY MARIA TUSSING

Brian and Jennifer

Philipsen New Underwood, S.D.

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t was a neighbor with an airplane, a group of Haflinger horse enthusiasts and friends and family that helped the Philipsen family through the worst days after the Atlas blizzard.

Brian and Jennifer Philipsen, and their kids, Jace and Brianna, had cattle scattered for miles around New Underwood and Marcus, S.D.

Their neighbor landed his small plane at their place the day after the storm and took Brian up to look for the cattle. “We weren’t trying to cover a very large area, but it took probably an hour in the plane before we found anything.” The cattle in one pasture had drifted about five miles, across I-90. He figures about a week went by before they’d located all their cattle.

“Just a lot of friends and families and neighbors helped out. Some of them just brought a hot meal to eat at night. You never knew what the day was going to bring. People wanted to help, but you never knew what to do, so you couldn’t tell them what you needed help with.

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“This isn’t anything you’re going to heal up in a few years.

It brought forth a lot of good out of a lot of people. Just when you’re starting to question humanity…you see a lot of positive in the human race for darned sure.” ~Brian Philipsen

We’d never dealt with anything like this before.”

After they’d located all their animals, they’d lost about 40 percent of their cow herd. In the midst of the rounding up and accounting for the dead animals, pleasant surprises occasionally surfaced through the snow. In one snowbank the Philipsens had been past the day after the blizzard, two calves and a yearling showed up— alive--after the snow had been melting for four days. Though they were standing on cattle that had piled up in the draw, the fact that those calves had survived being buried in the snow for days was an encouragement.

The family also lost several horses, including 14-year-old Brianna’s barrel horse.

Brian’s mom drives a Haflinger horse, and belongs to a group of Haflinger enthusiasts from across the country. That group decided to raise money to help Brianna buy another horse. “Donations came from New York to California, and everywhere in between. Some were small, and some had a little size to them. They raised a nice little chunk of funds for Brianna to help her in her barrel horse search,” Brian said.

Brianna found a new barrel horse around the first of the year, and qualified for the South Dakota High School Rodeo Finals on her.

Every little bit helped, Brian said. “Various churches and church organizations helped with prayer and monetary donations.

That was sure thoughtful and did us a lot of good. Local feed stores and family members donated mineral barrels and supplements.

TOP LEFT: Neighbors worked together to gather and sort cattle after the storm; TOP RIGHT: Work went on as usual, with Jace, Brianna and Brian working together at spring branding.

BOTTOM: Philipsens found this calf alive, surviving four days of being completely buried in a snowdrift.

We received some heifers from various donors and area ranchers.

Some ranchers wanted to know exactly where their heifer was going to go, and just donated to a particular producer. We also got some from Heifers for South Dakota. That was sure a nice gesture.

All that stuff was sure appreciated. That kinda gives a guy a foothold and lets you get back in the game a little bit.

“A guy’s got to look at it, going into another fall, it’s the first of September, the grass is still green and tall, the dams are full of water, the stack corrals are full. That’s what we’ve got to go off of now.

It’s going to take some time. This isn’t anything you’re going to heal up in a few years. It brought forth a lot of good out of a lot of people. Just when you’re starting to question humanity…you see a lot of positive in the human race for darned sure.”

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Survivor Profile

BY JAN SWAN WOOD

Max and Brenda

Bowen Newell, S.D.

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ax and Brenda Bowen live along Horse Creek, southeast of Newell, S.D. During the grazing season their cattle are southwest of Union Center on ground the family has run on for generations. It’s a long drive in between, but has never presented a problem for them or for Max’s folks, Tom and Lela Bowen, who live south of Newell.

When the October blizzard had finally wound down, Max was so worried about the cows that he was determined to get to them, despite all the roads being blown full of snow and closed. His family begged him to stay put, but he climbed in his front wheel assist tractor, with several days worth of supplies and a bedroll, and headed out, plowing snow with the bucket and climbing over and through the drifts with the tractor. It took him more than six hours to travel the 45 miles.

“I was the first set of tracks out there except for about eight miles. When I got out on east of the Belle Fourche River and up on the flats there on 34, I never felt so alone. It was just white for as far as I could see. There was just nothing,” says Max. “Well, nothing except the bumps and piles of cattle. Every once in a while I’d see a little bunch walking down the road, but their eyes just looked dead.” Max chokes up a little, then continues, “I’ll never forget that. I can see them yet.”

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“I was the first set of tracks out there except for about eight miles.

When I got out on east of the Belle Fourche River and up on the flats there on 34, I never felt so alone. It was just white for as far as I could see. There was just nothing,” ~Max Bowen

After the storm cleared, every live cow was a reason to celebrate.

When he arrived at the summer pasture, he was relieved to find their cows and calves at the corrals. “Those corrals aren’t much, not even a windbreak, but it stopped them there,” says Max. He fed the cows and calves, got a rough count and determined they’d lost some, but nothing like he’d seen on the drive out.

He could see some of their bulls moving around in the pasture they were in, but couldn’t get a count.

After feeding the cows again the second day, he got to the bulls to feed them. They were missing four head. “I figured they were dead, so I fed the ones I had. Later that afternoon I saw the other four bulls coming over the hill. I didn’t know where they’d come from.”

Two or three days later, while talking to a neighbor, he found out. “My neighbor said he was riding across the pasture looking for his cows when he glanced over at the old Reichart school house and saw a bull with his head out a window,” says Max. “He rode over

there and shoved the door open and let them out. They were fine, just thirsty and hungry.”

“I don’t know how long they’d been in there, maybe 24-48 hours, maybe longer, but who knows? It was absolutely by the grace of God that he saw them. I figured they were dead in a draw so I sure didn’t think of looking in that old school house. I think they all took shelter next to that old school house during the storm. It isn’t much, but it’s the only thing out there.

“Apparently those four got inside of it and then the door got bumped shut. It’s a pretty small building so it was probably kind of crowded, but that’s where they spent the storm.”

If not for a neighbor riding by, it might have been a long time before those bulls were discovered, and it would have been too late by then. Though the old school house has been empty for decades, the Bowens are sure glad that those four bulls went back to school and survived a blizzard in its shelter.

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Survivor Profile

BY COLETTE “KOKO” GJERMUNDSON

Cassity

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New Underwood, S.D.

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everal unexpected events have occurred in 16-year-old Cassity Goetz’s life during the past 12 months, starting with the Atlas blizzard in October.

“It was really just so crazy that we couldn’t believe it was actually happening, “ Cassity says. She and her parents, Harold and Nancy Goetz, were snowed in on their small ranch southwest of New Underwood, S.D., for two days and were without electricity for more than five days.

“You didn’t really know what happened until a couple of days later,” Goetz says. While digging out they found that five cattle had died, including Cassity’s Angus 4-H heifer. Cassity’s 13-year-old sorrel mare, “Bear,” and a two-year old colt had also died in the blizzard.

It was heartbreaking. Goetz had been riding and working with Bear since age four. As member of the Cheyenne River Breaks 4-H Club in Pennington County, Cassity competed in 4-H rodeos and local jackpots. “I used her in barrels, poles and goats,” she says. “She

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“It was awesome to know that there were people out there who were willing to take something that they had, put so much work into it and then give it to someone else who had losses from the storm.” ~Cassity Goetz

was an all-around horse that you could trust to take care of whoever was on her back.”

Also part of Cassity’s personal herd was “Roo,” a Thoroughbred mare she bought a week before the storm. Goetz intended to train Roo as her back-up barrel horse, but now it looked like Roo would be Cassity’s go-to barrel horse.

In the deep snow following the storm, Roo hurt her leg. “Our vet told us to take her to an equine specialist for an x-ray,” Cassity says. They took Roo to Dr. Scott Cammack, at Northern Hills Veterinary Clinic, Sturgis, S.D. He delivered the news: Roo would not be able to run barrels.

“That put me in a spot where I could probably only compete in cutting on Margarita this year in high school rodeo,” Cassity says.

Cammack remembered a client had mentioned that if the right person came along who had lost a horse in the storm, she had a pretty good barrel horse that she would give away. Cammack handed Cassity’s dad a piece of paper and said, “Here’s a number you need to call because here’s a way to keep your daughter competing.”

After a bit more coaxing, Harold Goetz called WPRA goldcard member Deena Grieves, Upton, Wyo. “She had a horse that she thought would be perfect for a 4-H/high school kid,” Cassity says.

Upon hearing Goetz’s story Grieves decided to give Cassity “Buddy,” a seven-year-old chestnut gelding.

“I got him about a week before Christmas – my favorite Christmas present of all!” Cassity says. “He’s a finished barrel horse and one of the best horses I’ve ever ridden.”

As a rancher and rodeo competitor, Grieves says, “I just know how hard it is to lose animals and how attached young girls get to their horses. I raised and trained the horse and he has a lot of potential.”

Goetz first competed on Buddy at the Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo Open 4D barrel racing, placing between the 1D and 2D. She has competed on him in more than 15 rodeos in 2014. “Each time we compete we get a little better,” Cassity says.

Cassity’s good fortune didn’t end there. Another unexpected delivery arrived Dec. 28 when she was selected as one of three South Dakota 4-Hers to receive a heifer, 20 bags of feed, 10 bales of hay and $200 from Horseshoe Acres 4-H Club members from Goshen County, Wyoming. Before delivering the heifers the Goshen

County 4-Hers even worked to halter-break the heifers.

The now-bred Angus heifer is at home with the Goetz family and awaits her show debut. Besides participating in rodeo this past summer Cassity also competed in the state high school queen contest and the state 4-H ambassador contest, activities that left her little time to show the heifer. Still, she is thankful that the heifer will help restart her own Angus herd.

She says, “It was awesome to know that there were people out there who were willing to take something that they had, put so much work into it and then give it to someone else who had losses from the storm.” As for Buddy, she says, “I couldn’t be more thankful that someone was looking out for me and was willing to make it so I could still compete.”

TOP: 4-H members from Goshen County, Wyo. donated three heifers to South Dakota 4-Hers, including Cassity; BOTTOM: In addition to the heifers, the Wyoming 4-Hers donated feed, hay and money.

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Survivor Profile

BY JAN SWAN WOOD

Delbert and Georgi Ann

Cobb Red Owl, S.D.

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anchers Delbert and Georgi Ann Cobb, Red Owl, South Dakota, were hard hit with losses during the Atlas blizzard of 2013. Their cows were in several locations, some several miles from home. When the storm was over, travel was paralyzed for the ranchers in that area until roads could be cleared.

Unable to get out of their place, Delbert called people closer to where his cows should have been and where they may have drifted. “When I talked to Monte Reichart, he said he’d seen some really awful things that morning. I didn’t know he meant our cows,” says Delbert.

When the recovery operation finally got underway, the staging area for holding and sorting the cattle was the Cobb corrals. People from all over came to help and to see if they had cattle there.

Georgi Ann says, “I never could make myself take any pictures of the dead cows. I knew I’d never forget what they looked like. I even took my camera a couple of days and didn’t take a picture. What I wish I had pictures of, though, was all the

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“God chose us for an amazing journey, one we would have run from if we had the chance, but the people we have met along the way will be lifelong friends.

These people who reached for our hands to help us touched our hearts and we will never forget them.” ~Georgi Ann Cobb

people that came to help.”

“It was just amazing,” says Delbert, “Pickups and trailers came in from clear over by Kadoka, just to help.

They just kept coming. They’d back up to the chute saying, ‘Where do they go?’

They’d bring horses and ride and help and then haul the cattle to where they belonged.”

“People would call and say how sorry they were, then ask what they could do. I told them they had just done it,” says Georgi Ann. “Just knowing they were thinking about us was so much help.”

The Alabama Junior Cattlemen’s Association really had an impact on the Cobbs. The kids heard about the loss of cattle and fences and wanted to help, so

their leader contacted several county extension offices in the western South Dakota region hit by the blizzard. The Meade County office responded back and the wheels were set in motion.

Originally, they were just going to raise money for fencing, but it grew from there. Pretty soon they had 21 yearling heifers donated and money enough for the trip. About 60 people arrived and stayed with host families in the eastern Meade County area.

Cobbs hosted a family and they developed a friendship that will no doubt last a lifetime. They are making plans to have the boy stay with the Cobbs for a while next summer.

When the cattle arrived from Alabama, they were branded at Cobb’s. The

Alabama youths had never seen branding and didn’t know just how important it is in the West. When it was time to brand the heifers that Cobb’s received, Delbert let “his” Alabama youth brand for them.

“God chose us for an amazing journey, one we would have run from if we had the chance,” says Georgi Ann, “but the people we have met along the way will be lifelong friends. These people who reached for our hands to help us touched our hearts and we will never forget them.”

“It was hard and still is, but life goes on. You’ve just got to keep going and look at the bright side of things,” says Delbert.

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Survivor Profile

BY MARIA TUSSING

Tommy and Alice

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Red Owl, SD

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n Oct. 4, 2013, Dr. Alice Harty was driving. It took her the usual three hours to get from her home near Milesville, S.D. to Buffalo, S.D. It took 7 1/2 hours to get home. She was lucky to get home at all in the Atlas blizzard.

Two days later, on Sunday morning, she and her husband, Tommy, and his parents, Tom and Helen Harty, slogged through the rapidly-melting snow, heavy with dread, to their summer pasture near Howes, S.D.

The fear was largely unrealized, thanks to the mid-blizzard efforts of Bob Hansen, who, with his wife, LaVonne, owns the store in Howes, Alice said. “Our cattle drifted across pastures and got on Highway 73 headed south. Late Friday night, Bob noticed cattle wandering by his place and he went out and got everything coaxed in as well as he could.

He got them in his yard and rolled out bales. That held them in their yard during the rest of the storm.”

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“We got together and decided who would ride off where.

Just that getting together helped. Plus we drank a lot of schnapps.” ~ Dr. Alice Harty

Bob’s efforts and hay supplies saw between 300 and 400 head of cows and calves, with a dozen different brands, through the storm.

A lot of the neighboring cattle drifted by and didn’t have such a happy ending.

Some neighbors lost up to 70 percent of their herds. Alice said her family lost a handful of cattle and a few horses.“The thing that stands out is the cattle littering the ditches, and the helpless feeling of not being able to do anything for them.”

As a vet, Alice dealt with not only her own losses, but four or five phone calls a day from producers hoping she had a magic treatment for the cows and calves that were down, but alive.

“It was really hard to get those constant questions from producers about cows and calves that were down, just knowing the prognosis had a disappointing outcome.

Most often the best answer was a lead bullet. On the other side, knowing what these cattle went through, it was almost amazing as many survived as they did.”

Though the daily search for scattered and dead cattle weighed on them, Alice said sharing that burden with the neighbors made a huge difference.

They gathered every day at the store in Howes. “Even though they didn’t have electricity, LaVonne opened up the store and let everyone find what they could to eat and kept everyone fed. We used Bob’s corrals and facilities, so he helped make a lot of our recovery possible. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude.”

That hospitality carried through the week, as the neighbors used the Hansens’ store in Howes as a place to meet and plan.

“We got together and decided who would ride off where. Just that getting together helped. Plus we drank a lot of schnapps,” Alice said.

“It was heartwarming and overwhelming and I think that’s the only way we got through it. We spent a week together finding deads, looking for lives, but we did it together and that made a huge difference.

“Friends drove from as far as North Dakota and Sioux falls to lend a hand where they could and provide emotional support.

We had hunters come, throw any thoughts of hunting aside, and help us deal with the cattle.

“We knew we’d make it through it. I don’t think anyone expected the national outpouring of help that came through. It made a huge difference both emotionally and economically for a lot of people.”

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BY CARRIE STADHEIM

Marvin and Kathy

Jobgen Scenic, S.D.

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hen it came to the Atlas blizzard, producers took care of their own. “Basically it was the industry itself, the South Dakota Cattlemen, Sheepgrowers and Stockgrowers that got behind the Rancher Relief Fund,” Marvin Jobgen said. “A lot of credit needs to be given to the people in those organizations that went to the meetings and promoted this thing. They made the television appearances, made phone calls, did the legwork to make this thing happen.”

Jobgen pointed out that the organizations are strapped for money and didn’t have the resources to spend, which is all the more reason they should be commended for the amount of time and finances spent to help grow and support the Rancher Relief Fund, that eventually totaled over $5.5 million, putting cash in the pockets of ranchers who lost livestock in the storm. Donations helped many stockmen get through the short term – maybe paying phone or electric bills or buying groceries.

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“It has been a different way of doing business than it has been I the past. I guess it has it kind of reminded Kathy and I of where we came from and where we are at.” ~ Marvin Jobgen

Jobgen said there were some “awful nice things that happened” between friends, like the neighbor who arrived home one day to find cattle in his corrals that had been donated by fellow students in a professional ag class.

One reason ranchers were able to be so generous to those less fortunate was the cattle market, Jobgen said. “They had an awesome year last year – the market was good, calves were big, that played a big part in how this all came about.” And another good year in cattle country is coming to a close, which serves to help heal the hurt a little more quickly.

“If this would have happened on the heels or the beginning of a drought or if the cattle market had dropped, it would have made recovery a lot slower. We are fortunate that we had the best of conditions to recover. That is great.”

Jobgen said the cattle that survived the storm remained surprisingly healthy, with very few lost pregnancies and very little lasting sickness.

After losing hundreds of head of cattle, Marvin and Kathy were able to focus on the future and begin to erase memories of the past pretty quickly.

“After we got done dealing with sorting and counting everything I started buying calves. I knew we needed yearlings for the summer grass, that helps you forget,” Marvin said.

Marvin said he couldn’t help but think fleetingly, on sale day, of the calves he’d lost but “you don’t miss money you never had.”

He explained that their biggest loss was in

the genetics and the home-raised advantage they had enjoyed for many years.

The cows they bought, while genetically not inferior, aren’t familiar with the terrain of the ranch and haven’t proven themselves successful through the annual regime unique to every outfit.

“Any cowman will tell you that. Even though they are good cattle, they are not the same as what we raise on the place. A lot of people have seen that, they’ve had to change

the way they are doing business. That has probably been the biggest hardship,” he added.

The relief provided by friends, neighbors and government programs has been significant, he said, but it’s not the same as where they were.

“It has been a different way of doing business than it has been I the past. I guess it has kind of reminded Kathy and I of where we came from and where we are at.”

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HEALING

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he October 2013 blizzard devastated western South Dakota, killing tens of thousands of cattle. As heartbroken ranchers tried to pick up the pieces in the ugly aftermath, the women of Atlas found hope in the little things and rediscovered the beauty of the land they call home.

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It all started with a cow named Hope.

She was a crop-eared, black-baldy cow, so sick and rundown that her owners, Riley and Jimmie Kammerer of St. Onge, S.D., considered putting her down. Instead, they gave her a second chance and a name— Hope. Hope lived, and surprised them at pregnancy-testing time when they found out she was bred. She raised a big bull calf, and her name seemed pretty fitting to the Kammerer family.

After Atlas, surrounded by death, the Kammerers had a fleeting thought about the special cow, wondering if she’d made it through the storm. They found a group of cattle, still alive and well, and among them, Hope.

The Kammerers felt compelled to share this story with others who were also suffering from the devastating blizzard.

Hope is alive!

“In the midst of the heartache, from one family who lost nearly all of their cows and calves– a young family that had taken a leap of faith toward their ranch-life vi-

sion– emerged something glorious,” said Jodi Shaw, of Shaw Ranch near White Owl, S.D. “Something so simple, so small, that it could almost be overlooked or dismissed as a meaningless drop in an ocean. But this story would ripple with life. More than simply a cow affectionately named Hope, hope is alive. This couple knows with personal, meaningful belief, that this was no coincidence. A fleeting prayer floating up to heaven about one cow, and God inclined his ear to hear and answer. So that they would know Hope was a gift to not only their own hearts and minds, but to an entire community. Hope is alive. Hope is alive for all of us.

“In the days following the storm, I just knew that I wanted to do something to help. Our ranch had some death loss, but we feel fortunate that our numbers were pretty low. Yet, my heart was still broken for our community and our friends. When you grow up in this lifestyle, you know the hard work that goes into the cattle, and to see the loss, was just unimaginable and heartbreaking. It’s unthinkable. It’s still hard to

talk about. It’s hard to find words. It feels like sacred ground that’s hard to speak of.”

Shaw traveled to Pierre a few weeks after the storm, and on the way home she noticed how beautiful the day was.

“I stopped to take photos on the highway, and I just took a moment to appreciate how breathtaking this stretch of land really is. From that, the idea came to mind to put together a calendar with photos in it that celebrated that beauty. Once I decided to start putting together the calendar, I knew I had to share Hope’s story, as well. Despite the devastation, we could find hope in God even when everything else is falling apart.

We are in a place we have never been before, experiencing something we have never felt before, and we can still have hope.”

Shaw teamed up with other women to put together “Hope from Highway 34” a calendar that celebrates the beauty of the long stretch of prairie along Hwy 34 that was hit

by Atlas.

Shaw wrote about the storm, the aftermath, and the calendar project on her

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blog, jodeneshaw.blogspot.com. The calendar raised $21,000 for the Rancher Relief Fund from the 1,000 calendars and Shaw credits many women with helping her achieve this goal in a few short months.

Kerry Frei was one of those women.

“We were very lucky to have been spared from much loss in the storm,” Frei said. “There is a sense of guilt that comes with that because people around us lost so much. We lost some herd bulls, but it was really minor compared to what everyone else was facing.”

When Shaw approached Frei about the calendar project, she was excited to do something to help her friends and neighbors.

Frei helped out with the editing and project coordination.

“When Jodi came up with the idea, everyone was on board,” Frei said. “It came together very quickly. We were all hands on deck. Melissa Wilcox did the design work, and we sold the calendar through Jodi’s blog and Facebook. We had the calendars printed at Simpsons Printing.”

DeDe Long, of Red Owl, S.D., provided some photos for the calendar.

“Jodi and I are photography friends, and she asked if I could take some photos of Highway 34. We wanted to show how beautiful this stretch of highway is even when it was so ugly after the storm,” said Long, whose family lost over 300 head in the storm.

“In the weeks after the storm, it was amazing to me how many people were willing to help us,” said Long. “It sure makes you appreciate your friends and neighbors from

other states and east river South Dakota, and how they came to our rescue. Our son has four kids, and people made sure the kids had gifts for Christmas. People from North Dakota sent us down a complete Thanksgiving dinner, with everything from the turkey, to the stuffing, to the pies. Ranchers from Wyoming sent gift baskets and toys.

I don’t know how we can ever repay these people. Even if ranchers had debt of their own, they still donated cattle and money to

these programs, and that’s very touching.”

Women of Atlas, Live, Love, Prosper In the days, weeks and months following Atlas, there were a lot of challenges – getting post-mortem exams done on dead cattle and proving cause of death to insurance companies; trying to get government assis-

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tance during a complete government shutdown; cleaning up broken down trees and power lines; removing dead cattle wrapped in barbed wire and taking care of the living.

As ranchers worked to resume life after the devastating storm, the ranch women were beside them. Knowing that these women deserved to be appreciated and honored, an organization called Rural Women of America decided to put together a conference called, “Women of Atlas -- Live, Love, Prosper,” to bring together the community of women for a day of healing.

Camie Janikowski, a Rural Women of America committee member from Bowman, N.D., helped organize the conference, which was in Union Center Feb. 15, 2014. More than 200 women from the area attended the event.

“Each year, we hold a Rural Women of America conference.

As part of our conference, we also try to do some community service each year,” said Janikowski.

“Ever since the Atlas event, we spent a lot of our meetings trying to figure out how to support the individuals impacted by the storm.

We decided to bring our Rural Women of America experience to the women of Atlas.

We put together a oneday event to network, socialize and get motivated with other rural women.”

Renee Rongen, author of the book, “Fundamentally Female,” was a featured speaker and offered advice for coping with trials, keeping a strong faith and using humor to get through life’s challenges.

Dawn Wink, author of the book, “Meadowlark,” also addressed the wom-

en via a video presentation. Her book was based on her family’s story of homesteading in Meade County and how the women of the prairie helped each other through hard times.

Shaw also spoke at the conference and created artwork that reflected the message in “Meadowlark.”

“The book is about finding your song and figuring out who you are and living true to yourself,” said Shaw. “I created a mixed media collage using old papers from vintage books and magazines. The theme of the piece and my presentation was living true to your song. Our strengths are given to us

by God to support one another. Our song is a gift, so that we can all be there for one another.”

The event also included sessions on home decorating and cooking, as well as a trade show with shopping from local vendors, wine tasting and dessert.

“Driving out to the conference in February, I couldn’t help but notice there was still such a presence of the storm,” said Janikowski. “The land seemed so empty. You could feel it with the women at the conference, too. That they had been to hell and back. I definitely admire them for their strength in such adversity.”

“For many of us, it was the first time we had seen each other since before the storm,” said Frei. “This was what everyone needed because a lot of people hadn’t been out and about since the storm. There was a lot of laughter and some tears. It was an inspiring, uplifting day.”

“The women were very thankful and appreciative,” said Janikowski. “It was a really positive experience for them. We received thank you notes for weeks after the events. One of my favorites was from a woman who wrote, ‘When it’s our turn to pay it forward, we’ll remember this day.”

“I know I speak for every woman at the conference that this was the most uplifting, exhilarating and beautiful experience,” said Long. “Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, Rural Women in America, and all who were involved in making this day a reality for the brokenhearted women of Atlas! You uplifted our heavy hearts and made us whole again! We will never forget it! We shall pay it forward!”

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Laney and Morgan Mackaben’s young voices describe their strongest memories of the blizzard. Laney is an 11-year old sixth grader at Belle Fourche; Morgan is 9 and in fourth grade.

“What I remember most is Dena Lindsey, walking the road, pushing all those cattle,” Laney says. “And we started helping her push the cattle, to get them off the road.”

“The first day going out with my Dad he said, ‘I hope you’re ready for this,’” Morgan says. “He said, ‘You guys will be amazed.’”

They were. Both girls remember three or four long, cold, hard days of riding in search of cattle – not only their own but anyone’s livestock they might be able to rescue or return home or to some safe pasture. They rode horses they’d never ridden before, helped anyone they could. They’ll forever carry memories of big losses and dead cattle, along with the deep satisfaction of knowing they worked hard and sacrificed comfort as part of a group effort to survive, limit losses and help their neighbors.

The girls believe that having endured Atlas will cause more people to be aware of what the weather can do as well as to be better prepared and have more decisions made about what to do if anything like that happens again.

“During the storm you realize how much it means if you find your cattle alive, or how sad you are if you find them dead,” Morgan says. Atlas handed her both experiences, the heartbreak of losing a calf and the joy of learning its mother was found alive.

The daughters of Chad and Shawnie Mackaben came out of Atlas luckier than many because of the generosity of some Wyoming 4-H members and families. Lusk High School Senior Dax Dockery came up with the idea of contributing from his Angus herd to someone who suffered loss during the blizzard as a 4-H Junior Leader project.

Dax’s friends Pat, JoAnn and Monte

Ward heard about his plan. “We’ve always tried to help young people,” Pat says, “and we wanted to support Dax’s project.”

After winning an essay contest, Laney and Morgan were each given an Angus heifer on Feb. 8, one from Dax and one from the Wards. Dax had the heifers already halterbroke.

“I’ve really never been around a cow that way before – one you could wash and groom and all that,” Morgan grins. Morgan and the heifer earned champion beginner showmanship honors at the Butte/Lawrence County Fair this fall, along with placing second in the Angus breeding heifer category. Morgan agrees with the judges that her heifer will make a quality mother, so she’s been AI’d to Coneally Capitalist for an early March calf.

Laney and her heifer earned the trophy for top Angus 4-H breeding heifer.

Chad and Shawnie weren’t the only ones applauding the girls’ success, as Dax Dockery and his mom Tandy drove from Lusk to cheer the girls on. “Tandy forwarded us some pictures so we could enjoy their victories too,” Pat Ward says.

Morgan displayed a beef project poster explaining the story behind their heifers in their area of the fair barn. The project earned a purple rosette.

The Butte/Lawrence County Fair was a busy time for the Mackabens as the girls and their brother showed some bum calves, each showed two sheep and they loaned a sheep to help a friend. They also they exhibited five goats, along with the two heifers.

Dax, who’s now enrolled at Sheridan College working toward an associate degree in diesel technology says he enjoyed beef projects in 4-H for ten years and participated in meat and livestock judging. “Seeing how much the heifers helped the girls has been most rewarding,” he says, adding, “We’ve be-

come pretty good friends with the Mackaben family.”

Laney is enthusiastic about the future and was involved in prepping straws for AIing her heifer. She already has the heifer’s expected family enrolled in a Futurity Show where the dam and progeny will continue to be exhibited for several years to come. She says her family really pitched in to help with her heifer and she was impressed by the generosity of a lot of people and how they are interested in helping her. Laney said Dockerys coming to the show was the best part of her experience, and she enjoys being Facebook friends with them and writing about her heifer.

“I’m really amazed at the kindness that comes when bad things happen,” she says.

Morgan said the most important thing she learned from receiving the heifer is, “You can’t earn something unless you really try hard and do the best, and the kindness you give others comes around to you.” Another plus she cherishes is “the friends we’ve made.”

Shawnie Mackaben knows the strong dose of reality Atlas provided has strengthened her girls. “We needed them out there with us in the aftermath,” she says. “They’re lighter on the horses and in the deep snow conditions that made it better. They discovered property lines don’t matter. We hauled hay to whatever stock we could, gathered what we could and put them in our pastures.

Other people were loaning snowmobiles and providing pastures, or machinery services for disposal, still others were bringing out lunches for everyone. Our girls now understand and realize the enormity of what this is and the kindness and sheer thoughtfulness that was exhibited and extended. Everyone can learn from such an experience, which impacted not only our community, but the whole US food supply. The girls will forever remember, and pay it forward.”

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Morgan’s Essay Hi my name is Morgan Mackaben.

Day 1: It was Friday October 4th. When I woke up it was raining with a lot of water standing in puddlies. At 6 a.m., it started snowing. Me and my sister Laney and my brother Clay and my mom went to my grandma’s house to pick apples off the tree so the branches would not break. When we got home we shaked our trees for the snow to fall off and the rest of the day we spent around home.

Day 2: I was up early. We grabbed our shovels and dug a path for my dad’s feed pickup to get out of the backyard. As soon as we got out we headed to Wayne’s to try and call in our cows to feed them but that did not go so well.

We got stuck but we got out. We started the bobcat and tried to plow a path to the cows but we got the bobcat stuck too. We went back to grab the feed pickup to pull the bobcat out. I drove the bobcat when were trying to pull it out but when we got the bobcat out we got the feed pickup stuck. When it was stuck we had to put the wheel chains on it. We got out.

After that we got the Honda stuck, then we went home and

hooked on to the trailer and ate dinner, loaded the horses, went back out to Waynes and got the cows in the corral and fed them. Then we went to go save my stranded friends and then spent the rest of the day around home because the snowplows were not out yet.

Day 3: It was already Sunday Oct. 6, and we went to Newell for the first day. But we had to follow the snowplows in so we would not get stuck. When we got out there we unloaded the horses and got all the cows off the road then we went into one pasture where we found a calf stuck in a snowdrift and the snowmobile had to pull it

out. Then we had to push all the cows toward the gate so the tractor could feed them without getting stuck and I will remember my dad after our frist day at Newell. “Dad is my cow alive?” I asked sadly.

“I don’t know,” he said, then he called Grandpa to see if he saw it at Union Center. Grandpa told Dad he saw a cows with two pink tags but not her calf. I was so happy but sad at the same time.

Day 4: That morning we did not have school so we loaded the horses and went back to Newell. We went to one of Will Lindsey’s pasture where we got all of our cows out of that pasture and into one closer to Will’s barns. After that we went to go check on Will’s 100 head of replacement heifers where we found my brother’s calf dead.

Day 5: We did not have school so we went to Newell again. That morning we picked up May Petrin and gave her a ride out there to help identify our dead cattle. Then I went to Union Center. At Union I felt sad but I felt so happy to see my cow alive but my calf was dead. My calf had died in the windbreak with about 30 more dead cows and calves.

And then we spent the rest of the day out there. Wednesday we had school.

Day 6: That day I skipped school and went back to Newell and we rounded up all the cows and calves and put them in Will’s corrals and sorted them. We took all of ours to Foothills Feeders.

My future plans with my heifer will be to show it at the fair and win rewards money for college. I also want to raise more calves off my cow at Union Center and build up more numbers for a small herd.

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Laney’s Essay Hi my name is Laney Mackaben.

Day one: Friday, Oct. 4. I got up at about 6:30 a.m. I looked out the window and saw that it was blizzarding and water was standing in all of the water puddles. My dad said “you three kids should go clean off the neighbor’s decks like always.” After we got back, my grandma called and said that they have apples that need to be taken off the apple tree so that it does not break the tree.

When we got home we had to put the goats in the barn. Then we spent all rest of the day at home worried and cleaning house.

Day 2: Oct. 5. We woke up at 4:30 it was still snowing, we left and went outside and tried to get out of the driveway without getting stuck. We got out. We were going to go get the bobcat to bring home and scoop snow. We got out there and started the Big Red. We drove by the pond trying to find the cows. We got it stuck by the pond. So we went back and Dad hooked up the pickup and bobcat trailer while they were doing that I cleaned out snow from the peddles at the bobcat. Then my dad and sister took the bobcat while I was cleaning off the trailer. Then they came back and saw that they were stuck so we got the feed pickup to get it unstuck so we put on the chains so that we could get it unstuck. Then we loaded the bobcat on the trailer and went home when we got home my dad scooped us a trail to the horse trailer. Then my mom hooked it up to our other pickup and we ate lunch and left to go to Wayne’s where the cows were. We found them and put them in the correl and fed them a bale then my grandpa came and we headed to Newell but at Nisland there were highlines on the road so we took the back road to Vale. There we had to pick up some family members that did not have electricity so my dad rode the horses in to pick them up so they had three people on my horse and one on my sister’s. We went home and ate supper.

Day 3: Oct. 6. The first day out at Newell.

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helped her push those in a gate then we worked back to Palo’s clean- I will always remember feeling willing to get up early and help ing stuff off the road. We did that all day. wherever needed during the storm and having to ride horse every day and see all the dead animals.

Day 4: Oct. 7. Today we started riding and saw where our main My plans for the future with my heifer is to show it so many times path of distruction was. My dad rode down to a dam he found my to make it to state fair and win. Then have enough money to pay for brother’s red calf he gave him. My dad started crying when he got college. back to us. Then we rode around the pasture to find what was dead It was really hard because they were wondering and trying to or alive. We rode down to a creek where there were 18 dead laying at find there cattle that could be dead or alive. the bottom with water flowing over them.

Day 5: Oct. 8. Today we had to find Will Lindsey’s yearlings we rode Essays were edited minimally for length. over by a cliff and saw a bunch or almost all. Then we drove up the road a ways where there were a bunch eating hay. There were some cattle coming toward us to put in that pasture so we put them in then my dad was talking to the people we had cows on Grassland LLC out of Bozeman, Mont.

Day 6: Oct. 9. We went to school.

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t was just a few days after Atlas hit and folks had barely begun to dig out.

Death counts for cattle were a long way from in, but it was clear they were going to be high. Brenda Saber met her parents, Bob and Suzy Young, ranchers in Meade County, for lunch. Their ranch had suffered minimal losses, but sitting across the table from her father, she could see heartbreak on his face. “It was

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for his neighbors,” Saber says. “It was like a death in the family.” She thought, “We need to do something!”

From the start the idea was simple enough: Provide an opportunity for the community to demonstrate their solidarity. Saber enlisted husband Scott, with whom she runs Saber Farmers Union Insurance in Sturgis, S.D. and immediately he was on the phone with other area busi-

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ness owners. “We were imagining a gathering for people after a funereal. A chance to come together as a community. And we knew it needed to happen fast,” Saber says.

Rosemary Roth, a public relations officer with First Interstate Bank in Sturgis, was at the first organizational meeting. “We needed to do something NOW,” she remembers. “This was just like a family that was grieving—and they were grieving a loss that was unprecedented.”

What should be done in the face of such tragedy? The committee decided to stick with tradition and do what is always done in times of mourning -- visit, bring food, offer condolences.

The idea for the supper came next, as did the name: Rancher’s Fellowship.

“We decided we wanted to make it a nice steak dinner,” Saber says. The date for the supper was set: October 17 at the Central Meade County Community Center. Then the search for sponsors began in earnest.

From the first, the response was overwhelming. “It was amazing to see all the businesses step up,” Saber says. “Everyone seemed to feel the same – it was our turn to support the ranchers who support our businesses.”

“We were just talking about this the other day,” Roth says. “An event of this size could have taken a committee a year to organize,” she says. “We had just over a week…But the phone was ringing all day long with people calling to volunteer their help.”

The day of the supper arrived and a caravan of food and supplies made its way

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across the prairie. “We had seven hundred steaks with all the trimmings,” Roth says.

“We even had real silverware,” says Saber, laughing. “We didn’t want people to have to cut steak with plastic knives.”

Volunteers filled the hall with long, white folding tables, unloaded and fired up huge metal grills, and hung a sign to welcome guests to the event.

No one knew what to expect next.

Most ranchers were still deep in the midst of cleanup from the disaster, so organizers weren’t sure if they’d have fifteen attendees or five hundred.

“I still get chills when I think of all those people walking through the door.”

Saber says. “The tables were all full and when someone stood up, someone else just sat right down.” Total attendance was estimated at over six hundred, and included local ranchers, people from town who arrived to offer additional help, as well as state officials, including Governor Daugaard, who drove from Pierre to show his support.

It turned out Saber and her cohorts’ instincts were right. People came to eat and stayed to talk. Even after all the food was cleared away, the tables cleaned, and many of the volunteers headed sleepily home, folks were still sharing their stories. “I have no idea how late people stayed. I think there was someone from the community who got a key, so people could keep visiting,” Roth says.

Local rancher Vonnie O’Dea remembers the event warmly. “It was just good to get out of your own sorry world for an evening,” she says. “As ranchers we do whatever we can for those animals. Of course, we lost financially, but what was really horrible was to think of those animals suffering. We were so busy trying to get everything cleaned up, it was good to have a break, and it was helpful to know you weren’t alone…also, we got to hear some happy stories too.”

Tanse Herrmann, the USDA District Conservationist out of Sturgis, was one of the volunteers who came to help. “That storm brought everyone to their knees,” he says. Though not an ag producer himself, he felt called to support his customers, neighbors and friends. However, rather than mirroring a wake, Herrmann

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describes the night as feeling “almost like a wedding reception. Tears were shed of course, but there were smiling faces too. I think that night was the beginning of the tension breaking for a lot of people. It was also probably the first time many of them had been off the ranch since the storm hit…it was a night of relief.”

Looking back at the storm now, nearly a year later, O’Dea says, “It’s a part of life you won’t forget, but you can’t keep living it; you have to live for the living.”

Which is no doubt what Brenda Saber and the many other volunteers had in mind when they began planning.

“I don’t think any of us would hesitate – we’d do it all again in a second,” Saber says. All told, they were able to provide just what they hoped for: an opportunity to offer the comfort of community during a hard time.

The generosity of the Sturgis area businesses involved covered all the costs for the meal, and they were able to donate the reminder, $8,270.47, to the Rancher Relief Fund.

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Looking back at

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he Reinhold family still calls the event that began on October 3, 2013 and impacts us to this day, “The Storm.” I personally like how my friend, Bernie Hunhoff, has referred to it. He put a face and a heart to it when he called it “The Cattleman’s Blizzard.” The National Weather Service has simply dubbed it Atlas. The name was predetermined and since it was the first blizzard of the season… thus the letter “A”. Statistics and graphs may help historians, but for those of us that are in the midst of these incidents of nature, they are so much more. They are storms of life that can provide invaluable lessons.

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JANUARY 2014 The Reinhold family began the new year with hope in their hearts. Pictured left to right are Robin and Larry, Rachel and Kiersten on Red, Annie and Julie on Classy, and Caleb and Molly on Pocokota.

To look into the face of death will move nearly anyone. But to feel the pain of heartache one must look into the eye of death and recall the twinkle of life that was once there.

I am not very fond of that glazed-over eye that one sees at the moment of death. Actors cannot capture it because there is still life behind this organ that has been called the “window to the soul.”

But out in the country, we, as stewards of God’s creation and livestock, have seen it

more than once. Last October, we saw it multiplied over and over again. My wife, Robin, and I will never be the same. Our kids will never be the same.

In the midst of the pain and loss, our family will be better. We will hurt with others more readily. We will be more sensitive to the needs of the moment. We will be less careless with what has been entrusted to us.

And we saw things in the darkest of days that we’ll appreciate more when the sun shines.

The Storm brought together a sense of community that reached beyond barb wire.

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Washington and Pierre were both slow to act and reaction has been suspect as well.

What is amazing, however, is the grassroots efforts of the citizenry of this region and beyond. The entitlement mentality has not been evident. This does not relieve our government of its true responsibility, but perhaps those in government and all around the nation should take note of the sincere efforts of individuals working together in the face of adversity to help their brothers and sisters in need.

We have been amazed to watch people realize the value of living and life. “We live in the moment but not just for the moment.”

I can only live right now. My actions of the present cannot erase the regrets of the past, but can help to restore. My actions of the present can provide building blocks for the future. The older people that went through the storm realize the temporal value of collecting stuff. A whole new perspective is realized when you watch muddy carcass-

es dumped into a hole. You cannot help but ponder what is really important. The young people that went through this storm will better appreciate life; their own, their family and their livestock.

The storm brought a real life example of why we need to depend upon God for strength and provision. I have told many, “We have been here before.” This is not the first disaster or difficulty that my family and I have experienced. But we can have hope in the face of the most difficult hardship when our trust is put into the neverchanging Almighty. I love the old song, “This world is not my home I am just passing through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue.” Certainly we had tears flow for the loss of what had been entrusted to us. We knew from the get-go that we could not replace and we did not want to.

But we could rebuild. We will not forget the look of death in the eyes of what we cherished, but we will use that memory to drive us to a higher appreciation of what matters.

My two brothers, Lyle and Lee died in 1979. On that day, I saw the eyes of death as

well. But just the day before on May 27, Lyle shared a Scripture verse with us that encouraged us from that time forward. Isaiah 40:31 in the Bible says, “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

We press on.

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November 2013: The first new horse to arrive at the ranch following the blizzard was “Red,” a powerful, gentle, welltrained 13-year-old Quarter Horse. After hearing of the devastating losses, Ty and Jeanne Gaisford of Bozeman, Mont. loaded up this amazing horse and made the nearly 500-mile trek to deliver him to people they had never met. It was the beginning of a friendship that will last a lifetime.

December 2013: Christmas morning dawned with the arrival of this beautiful heifer calf. Her mother was donated to the ranch by some dear friends from Montana.

February 2014: After the purchase of several new horses at the Black Hills Stock Show Horse Sale, the Reinholds began putting horses through the tests to make sure they were reliable enough for campers. Many hours were spent in the saddle in the months prior to the summer camping season.

March 2014: Having several young gelding prospects survive the storm, the Reinhold family launched the “Dakota Horse Challenge,” a 90-day training competition that put 30 horses out with 15 trainers for the purpose of rebuilding Rainbow’s Remuda. Here are some great trainers who came up from Nebraska to pick up their horses.

April 2014: The flooding that followed the blizzard did much damage to the infrastructure of the ranch. Fences needed to be rebuilt.

May 2014: The trees and shelter belts took a devastating hit. The Reinhold family planted over 2,300 trees this spring, from seedlings to larger trees.

June 2014: The Dakota Horse Challenge proved to be a great success, as the trainers returned for the finale and showed their skills. Joey Weed from Broken Bow, Neb., shows a young gelding working cattle.

July 2014: Due to God’s blessing and God’s people, Rainbow Bible Ranch enjoyed a successful summer with children attending from all across the U.S. and two foreign countries.

August 2014: The campers at Rainbow Bible Ranch can experience what many people only dream of. Here are 34 horses, saddled and ridden.

September 2014: The blessings of the year can be seen in this outstanding bull calf, whose mother was donated to the ranch.

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Atlas deemed worst storm in history of WREA The power is on, but a year after Atlas, the power situation still isn’t back to normal. Atlas was considered to be the worst storm in the company’s 74-year history. West River Electric Association’s goal is to complete cleanup and restoration to pre-Atlas conditions by December 31, 2014. An initial push in the days and weeks following the storm ensured power was returned to all 16,000 customers, many of whom were area ranching families.

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“On Friday, Oct. 4 outages began in the Rapid City area in the morning and in the Wall and Enning areas in late afternoon,” said West River Electric manager of member services Veronica Kusser. “The high winds and heavy snow limited visibility and made it impossible to stay ahead of outages, although our linemen were out on Friday trying.

“Then, at about 8 p.m. WAPA (Western Area Power Administration), who provides the main transmission and substation capacity into our system, lost their New Un-

derwood substation. At 10:30 p.m., WAPA transmission structures broke along the Cheyenne River near Wasta, darkening the rest of our service area. Power remained out to every one of our 16,000 members through the night. Not a single meter was turning.”

Line crews and stranded motorists they had rescued throughout the day, as well as some office staff, ended up spending Friday night at the Rapid City WREA office due to the weather conditions, which improved little by Saturday morning.

“There were 4 inches of ice on the lines

Saturday morning, and nothing we could do but wait for WAPA, who arrived and restored power to the Wall area by noon. With the treacherous road conditions, it took them until about 8:30 p.m. to reach the New Underwood substation and restore power to the Rapid City area, with the aid of Pennington County Emergency Management, and the Department of Transportation,” said Kusser.

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“These outside resources stayed and helped us for two weeks, in addition to a number of other volunteers in our local offices. The ladies in the offices took over 5,000 calls in the first few days following the storm, and the after-hours call center set a new record of 30,000 calls in a threeday period. We faced over 2,000 down poles, and it was Oct. 20, day 16, when our last members in the Enning area saw their lights come back on,” said Kusser.

Just getting the outside crews into the area with closed roads proved a challenge initially, as did finding them motel rooms, taking care of their laundry and meals, and ensuring the necessary materials also arrived so they could do their jobs.

“Marketing and engineering guys stepped up to build 1,200 new cross arms, caterers were brought in for morning and evening meals. Lunches and snack bags were prepared by office personnel. We received so much support from the community – they helped with laundry, baked goods and snacks. We even had a ‘breakfast club’ come in to help at the Wall office and cook fresh pancakes,” said Kusser.

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began on making more permanent, longterm repairs across the WREA service area.

“Muddy conditions and other weatherrelated limitations resulted in temporary fixes being installed in some places – maybe two poles were put in instead of three. After our customers all had their power restored, we began revisiting those spots and addressing each issue to completion,” said Kusser.

That work continued throughout the winter, while they continued to find additional issues that kept both WREA employees and outside contractors busy for several months.

“We have had guys out there continuously doing line patrol checks, and they were constantly finding things that were weakened, most likely from the storm, which we also replaced and worked on. Things like loosened hardware and damaged equipment that could cause future outages. Our entire system was impacted and weakened by the storm, so issues continued to arise throughout the following winter and spring months,” she said.

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While the crews battled difficult weather conditions to repair infrastructure outside, the WREA office and accounting staff also faced a daunting indoor task in the storm’s wake.

“As of April we estimated the storm’s damage at $7.2 million dollars. Our accounting department had to sort out all of the invoices for replacement poles, parts, gas receipts, food, payroll, and the list goes on. Plus they had to keep in mind that only certain expenditures would be eligible for federal funds should FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) declare the area a disaster, and organize them accordingly,” said Kusser.

FEMA did make a disaster declaration on Nov. 8, at which point WREA had 18 months to complete work, resulting in the Dec. 31, 2014 goal of completion. As a result of FEMA’s declaration, eligible expenditures will be cost-shared at a rate of up to 85 percent. The remaining 15 percent of costs will be financed through a loan guarantee with Rural Utilities Service and will go into the base of future WREA rates. However, WREA does not anticipate putting a special month storm adder onto bills in order to recover costs.

“Over the past year we’ve looked at our policy of standards and how we do things, and we wouldn’t change how we approached this storm. It hit us unexpectedly as it hit the agriculture community, and took a lot of determination from our entire team to get it back up and running, but they made it happen,” said Kusser.

Going forward, WREA is planning to replace the feed into the Enning area and take in a new feed from the Wall area. Both projects will strengthen area feeders and improve the odds of keeping lights on in future storms.

“We just have to thank all our partners, volunteers, staff and especially our line crew. They would work 16 hour days in every kind of weather, then show up again the next day and do it again. Their determination in getting our customers’ electricity restored was amazing and they deserve a lot of credit,” said Kusser.

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Maher, who keeps a mixed herd of black cows and Herefords and sells in Faith, S.D. every fall, will be visiting his accountant before he hitches up for the auction barn.

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with their accountant before they sell this year,” said Maher, who lost four percent of his cows in winter storm Atlas. “There’s the drought relief, the livestock indemnity.

There’s just a lot to consider.”

An estimated 43,000 cattle and other livestock were killed during the storm last October in western South Dakota, and parts of Nebraska and North Dakota.

When Atlas devastated individual cow

herds and cost the region an estimated five percent of its animals, federal disaster relief provided by the Farm Bill had expired, adding to the stress.

And producers were already dealing with the losses accrued from extraordinary drought in 2012 that had forced the sale of breeding stock they would have normally retained.

Most figured it was past time the U.S. Department of Agriculture stepped up.

USDA has restarted a series of disaster and indemnity programs that cover losses for ranchers and farmers. Beginning on April 15, applications began for various programs through USDA as part of a 2014 Farm Bill. They cover losses incurred from the time the programs expired in late 2011 until now.

Federal relief is expected to improve the area’s recovery time in a part of the country where families have spent decades building equity in ranches and herds.

When the early storm Atlas dumped up The Farm Bill reauthorizes, strengthto four feet of snow on already rain-soaked ens and makes permanent livestock disasanimals not yet on winter pasture, it killed ter assistance for new farmers and seasoned calves that were due to be sold soon as well producers alike, including the Livestock Inas cows that would have produced this demnity Program. LIP compensates proyear’s calves. For producers who lost a lot ducers for deaths of livestock that exceed of breeding stock in the storm, the 2014 tax normal mortality in the event of adverse season is a critical one, says certified public weather. accountant Doug Kenoyer.

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The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 has expired, so producers don’t have the same benefits they did prior to that when it comes to deductions.

Bonus depreciation could prove important to people who lost breeding stock in Atlas in part because breeding stock are depreciable assets.

Moreover, Section 179 of the U.S. tax code had previously allowed producers to deduct up to $500,000 in capital expenditures, such as the purchase of new equipment, rather than requiring the cost of the property to be capitalized and depreciated.

The current code only allows for $25,000 in deductions.

“It doesn’t take much of a farm equipment purchase to add up to $25,000,” Kenoyer said.

Robust sales of new farm machinery and equipment in 2013 were attributed to strong US commodity prices, low interest rates, and the enhanced tax deductions.

While legislators have introduced bills this year that would make permanent the 50 percent bonus depreciation of new capital purchases that was created in 2012, nothing has yet passed into law.

Lawmakers aren’t likely to act until after November elections.

Bonus depreciation allows producers to depreciate 50 percent of the cost of new equipment in the first year, plus the percentage of the remaining basis in the equipment that would ordinarily be depreciable

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under the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System.

While there is more than one way to account for depreciation, most producers use the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System.

Depreciation of livestock begins when the animal is mature – when it can be worked, milked, or bred.

Livestock held for breeding purposes can be depreciated or inventoried. If a producer chooses to depreciate the animal, they are entitled to a deduction. That also increases taxable gain when the animal is sold.

If a producer chooses to inventory a breeding animal, they give up the deduction but they will be taxed at lower rates when the animal is sold.

Depreciation appears on an accrual income statement as a non-cash expense. Income statements are used to estimate profit. As an expense, depreciation represents a reduction in revenue.

Gifts of replacement cows aren’t taxed.

Drought relief allows for producers who were forced to sell off animals to defer capital gains on those animals.

If livestock held for any length of time for draft, breeding, or dairy purposes are sold because of drought conditions, the gain realized on the sale does not have to be recognized if the proceeds are used to purchase replacement livestock within two years of the end of the tax year of the drought sale.

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A little girl watches her dad skin a dead calf, using the hide to graft an orphan onto a calf-less mother, ready to adopt the hungry baby and raise it as her own. One death often provides for another’s life. But sometimes that cycle goes awry.

Originally published Oct. 12, 2013 in Tri-State Livesock News

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For a rancher, losing livestock is much more than just seeing his financial security vanish. It is a feeling of emptiness, of helplessness and a what-could-I-have-done-differently-to-save-the-animals-that-rely-onme feeling.

It is in a rancher’s best interests to keep his livestock healthy and happy­. It’s a nobrainer. Ignoring livestock or allowing them to get hungry, sick or be threatened by predators would not only mean throwing a once-ayear paycheck out the window, it is just plain wrong. The law of the range says if you are going to take on the responsibility of owning or managing livestock, you are going to do it right. Tough or easy, sunshine or rain, you will make the right choices – your livestock will be your priority.

Stockmen across the west don’t talk about these things. They just live them.

For these reasons, a devastating blizzard like the one that blasted Wyoming and the Dakotas last weekend will bring tears to the eyes of the toughest man. It destroyed decades of careful breeding plans, of tedious

heifer selection, of cold, worrisome calving nights, of stretching wire and pounding staples and serving as mechanic in the hay field during the miserable heat of summer. The joyous sight of a new calf taking that first warm suck from mama on new spring grass was crushed in one cruel, harsh swipe. The fun and satisfaction of sipping a cup of coffee with the neighbor on shipping day was stolen. This storm laughed in the face of the couple who scrimped and saved to buy that high-priced bull that promised to add an extra 25 pounds to the calf crop. It twisted the guts of the wisest, most experienced rancher who had begun building plans to pass his legacy on to the next generation. That dream may now be years down the road. Or it may never come true.

Heading into fall with a strong cattle market, ranchers were looking forward with more anticipation than usual to sale day. The day for some will now be a grim reminder of losses caused by an epic blizzard that killed tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses on Oct. 4, 2013, mostly in west-

ern South Dakota but also in Nebraska, Wyoming and North Dakota. The storm delivered significantly larger amounts of snow and higher winds than forecasts had predicted, following a drenching rain in most areas.

The state agriculture department does not yet have any total figures on livestock losses but a representative said that they are receiving reports of producers losing anywhere from five to 50 percent of their herds.

Other news reports are revealing that losses for some producers total over 200 head, while others report no livestock deaths.

Oct. 1 Philip Livestock reported 567-pound black and black white-face cross steers bringing $186.25 per hundredweight.

Black heifers weighing 940 pounds fetched $144.25 per hundredweight and cull cows, bulls and heiferettes were worth anywhere from $75 to $119 per hundredweight, depending on age and condition.

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ager Thor Roseth, Philip, S.D., estimates that good bred heifers will be in demand this fall, worth anywhere from $1,800 to $2,200 per heifer. Younger bred cows could be worth that much or more, he said. The financial effects of the lost livestock will bleed into communities and local businesses for years to come.

In order to make preparations for possible federal livestock loss assistance, South Dakota Sen. John Thune shared the following suggestions: “South Dakota ranchers with livestock losses, due to the devastating snowstorm over the weekend, should carefully certify losses in the event federal assistance becomes available. Certification can include second-party certification, rendering receipts, photos or video with date stamp of dead livestock, calving/lambing records, or purchase records to verify the number of livestock owned on the day prior to the snowstorm.”

The Republican senator explained that because a farm bill has not been passed, no

disaster assistance is available at the current time but would be available upon passage of the bill. “It is all tied up in the Farm Bill. If we can get the Farm Bill approved, the disaster relief is in there,” Thune said.

He explained that the Senate version of the Farm Bill includes a Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) that would pay 65 percent of market value for lost livestock and the House version allows for a 75 percent LIP payment. Both would be figured on the value of the livestock and herd numbers the day prior to the loss. “Both are reauthorized and funded, that is why it’s important for people to keep records. If it gets approved, and hopefully it does, the structure is there to provide relief,” Thune said.

He explained that he is “hopeful” the farm bill will be passed. “We are waiting for the House to appoint conferees,” he said, adding that if the bill is passed, payments won’t be immediate. The U.S. ag department will have to write regulations and develop software to record losses and, of course, USDA-FSA offices will need to be

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re-opened. [The farm bill passed Feb. 7, 2014.

Producers could begin applying for disaster assistance April 15, 2014.]

“In the meantime if we can encourage the governor to request a disaster declaration, low-interest loans could be made available,” Thune said, explaining that disaster declarations are made county-by-county and a 30-percent loss of a certain commodity has to be proven within the county in order to qualify for the designation.

S.D. Department of Agriculture’s general counsel, Courtney De La Rosa said the disaster designation must be requested by the county emergency managers. “It is really important for producers to keep complete records and to document losses,” she said. “Don’t get frustrated because the FSA (USDA Farm Service Agency) isn’t working (due to the government shutdown). Docu-

mentation is going to be a big thing.

She said the S.D. Animal Industry board is coordinating rendering trucks to quickly transport carcasses away.

Dr. Don Safratowich with West River Veterinary Clinic, said his “gut feeling” is that the astronomical death loss resulted from the rain that chilled livestock before the snow and wind. “We’ve had colder storms but this time they got so wet and the body temperature dropped so much, then hypothermia set in.” The swirling wind and snow may have also smothered animals. “It’s almost like they were drowning on top of it,” said the veterinarian who practices just north of the South Dakota border in Hettinger, N.D. Regarding animals that have been off feed and water, Dr. Safratowich recommended producers attempt to get flu-

ids to them as quickly as possible, but he realizes this is not always feasible, and urges caution. “A lot of these cattle are down and I hate to try and pump an animal when they are laying down. I worry that it will get into their lungs.” Fluid and energy is what the stressed animals need, but he also understands that some of them are refusing it. IV fluids are another option for downed animals, but not very practical in large numbers.

“Initially we don’t want anything too lush or hot. I’d rather see an alfalfa/grass mix rather than straight alfalfa,” he said.

Safratowich added that, if at all possible, stressed livestock should be allowed a week to ten days of recovery time before carrying out weaning plans or pre-weaning vaccinations. “I know some people have their cattle sold on the video and have re-

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Safratowich doesn’t expect a lot of lasting problems for the livestock that survived. “Either they’ll recover on their own or they’ll respond to treatment. I don’t think, on the majority, there will be much long-term effect on the live cattle, sheep or horses,” he said.

The storm beat us down. But it didn’t break us. Besides being the very best of livestock managers, ranchers are resilient and, most importantly, stubborn. You aren’t in this business to get rich. You aren’t in this business because it is comfortable or easy.

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Rubber boots and neighbors were two necessities in the days following Atlas. During the blizzard the low in Rapid City was 31 degrees. By Monday, Oct. 7 the highs were nearly 60 and the lows were above freezing. That led to flooding and a muddy mess for people still trying to find, sort and bury cattle. Neighbors took care of any animals they came across, knowing someone would be doing the same for any of their missing animals. Photo courtesy Alice Harty.

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Germany baked cookies and brownies to raise money to donate to the ranchers affected by the blizzard in October. Please accept our donation of $117.16.

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This money was raised by a young boy with cancer. He feels so sorry Bryan Carmichael is the 8th grade for the ranchers. teacher at Faith High School. This year instead of exchanging gifts for Christmas, the class decided to vol- We feel sorry for your livestock. unteer work around town. Shovel We wish you well in the future. The snow, rake yards, etc. This is the full-o-pep 4-H club money that was raised for the RRF.

Let me give you a bit of background of our church. We are a very small rural congregation in southwest Minnesota. At one time, we were made up of many farmers.

Unfortunately, in the ‘80s, many of our members (farmers, implement dealers, main street businessmen, etc.) were caught up in the farm crises. As this was a generation past the “great depression,” many did not know how to respond to the hurt that the crises created. Many were left feeling that no one cared.

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For about 20 years, our congregaFind enclosed a donation to tion has taken a special offering at The children of our Spangdahlem those farmers/ranchers who suf- Christmas called, “Tree of Hope.”

Air Base School Age Program (5-12 fered such devastating losses in the We divide the monies given to oryears old) located at Spangdahlem, October blizzard. ganizations, missionaries or those

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in need. The cause of your ranchers struck a chord with us as we knew how many with losses felt. We surely wanted those to know that we truly cared. Hence, we humbly give of our resources to help those who we know will be feeling the hurt for a very long time.

In the spirit of Christ, we share in the hurt and pain. Please accept our humble gift.

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Thanks for your response to my email regarding where to send the funds raised for ranchers. My girls saw a news report about kids raising money in a Nebraska school so they wanted to do something to help. Our 10-year-old twin daughters, Rianna and Sheridan, have

big hearts and love to help. We are ranchers in south central Neb. Rianna said, “Mommy just imagine the ranchers who lost all their livestock, they lost everything.” The girls love their cattle and know the importance of helping others.

The girls collected money in school and most of the donations were collected at Lone Star Cowboy Church.

Please use these funds for ranchers who need it most. Praying they all can recover from Snow Storm Atlas.

Wishing the community foundation and all the ranchers who suffered a loss renewed faith this holiday season.

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We are retired farmers—grain and livestock and understand your devastation. You are in our prayers.

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We’ve been following the news from up there, and as a fellow farmer/rancher and one who has experienced severe loss due to a blizzard, wanted to help what we could.

Continue prayers.

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Enclosed is a contribution for the Ranchers Relief Fund. I wish it could be a thousand times bigger, but mostly I wish I could take away the feelings of helplessness, grief and loss that everyone affected has gone through. You all are still in my thoughts and prayers.

the storm, but my heart aches for our ranchers and I had to do something. I hosted a SD Rancher Relief Fund Silpada Jewelry party these are the proceeds from the party enclosed. I could not simply sit by and do nothing when so many of my friends and families are ranchers.

P.S. I know this donation will be put to good use! SD and surPlease find enclosed a donation rounding states—we take care of to the BHACF from a ranch fami- our own! ly in Vernal, Utah that was put together by some fellow ranchers in Uintah and Duchesne Counties Wish it could be more! of Northeastern Utah. This donation came in after the main drive for cattle and money was made Just thought I needed to help in and forwarded to your area on a small way.

November 26 to be used to help I’ve traveled across S.D. many some of our neighbors that were af- times to Rapid City when my fected by that early October storm. grandkids and their parents lived I don’t know how much is en- there. Now they all live in S. Falls. closed, but I do know the gift was I’ve visited with a few of these given with some sacrifice and also ranchers on my prairie dog hunts. with some pride by the donor.

They have a “can do” attitude and This can be added to what we will stand up to any challenge. sent earlier and used with your Good bunch of folks! good judgment.

We are all happy and proud to I know that this donation in be able to help out just a little. itself won’t help much, but I want people out there to know that we Please accept this gift. In lieu of support them. I wish that I could traditional gifts the women in our do something great. family designated a fund/charity in need of monetary support. It was so gratifying to take part in this Although there are no words to adequately convey our sympathy type of gift exchange. and the heartfelt concern we have for all of the ranchers and their May the coming year bring families who suffered such devan abundance of blessings to the astation in the wake of the Atlas ranchers of South Dakota who lost storm, please let our words conso much in October. vey encouragement and hope and I know this cannot begin to support. purchase a cow that was lost in The men and women whose

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life’s work and lifeblood is the land, their noble “critters”—and the constant nurturing and protection of them both—have lost so much. It is impossible to imagine the financial and emotional toll this storm has taken on these fine people and their families. We know what they are made of, though…they couldn’t be in the business without possessing the grit, character and faith it will take to get through this storm and its aftermath.

May the enclosed check help in some small way to contribute to the relief of our fellow ranchers.

We pray for all of you—and for the community with their collective “arms” around you. We wish you strength and love and fortitude in all the days ahead.

Godspeed, South Dakota ranchers. God Bless you all.

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From a former rancher in the Union Center area in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. I remember how devastating it felt to see dead cattle in the pasture after some of the blizzards—and that was usually only four or five head. That seemed a big loss out of our small herd back then. It’s hard to even imagine how heartbroken these ranchers are feeling over such huge losses.

Best wishes and hopes for a better future.

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Being a rancher all of my life I know that feeling that goes with this loss.

Mother Nature can be a bad partner!

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Dearest Ag Brothers & Sisters, This isn’t much, but it comes with a ton of prayers, tears and best wishes. We lost “only” fences, corrals, forage, etc.—but our ranch did not lose animals from the Wallow Fire here in eastern Arizona. Our hearts ached when we heard about the South Dakota snow storm disaster. We pray you become stronger and are seeing just how many people care about you and love you.

May the Lord bless you, keep you loss that South Dakota had from that October storm, our hearts and give you peace. went out to all the ranchers that were affected.

Wishing the strength for these We heard about heifers for SD ranchers to pull through these and we talked about sending two hard times. Wish I had extra time replacement heifers down, so we to lend a hand. did. As a small operation, we still wanted to do more.

On our wedding day, we We have a small cow/calf oper- couldn’t have asked for a better ation north of Belfield, ND. After turnout or a better time. But I was hearing and seeing the devastating thinking of how we could do something to help out the ranchers. So, during the dance, I walked up to my new wife and asked if we could do the “dollar dance” and donate the proceeds to the Rancher Relief Fund. Without any hesitation, she said yes. We danced a LONG time, but we didn’t care how much our feet hurt because we knew it was for a good cause.

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We want you to know how truly very sorry we are over all that you are feeling. We pray that you have the strength you need to get through this tragedy.

You will continue to be in our thoughts and prayers.

We are farmers and we know the “punches” nature throws at us.

We are strong—like you. Have faith and persevere!

That’s why God made a farmer/rancher. Your Iowa neighbors.

Here on this Illinois grain farm, my family’s heart mourns for your hardship and for your losses. May our merciful God give you the grace and courage to forge onward. May He give you peace and comfort during this time of difficulty.

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Please accept the enclosed check as a contribution to the South Dakota Ranchers Relief Fund. It seems such a pittance, compared to the vast need, but as the saying goes, I guess “every little bit will help.”

I grew up on the family ranch Southwest of Fort Pierre (which was, thankfully, far enough east to avoid the October blizzard), still consider myself “west river” individual, and can certainly empathize with the ranchers who did suffer losses in the blizzard. I hope they will keep their heads up, and eventually be able to see “some light at the end of the tunnel.”

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Pardners— I apologize for being a bit slow with this but I’ve found that a few bucks late is far better than none at all. It isn’t much and it won’t save anyone from going off the cliff, but as an ol’ veterinarian of over 40 some years and a stockman for most of those years please accept this as a token of my understanding of what it means to lose a critter that’s in your care. The financial loss is one issue and we all know that Mother Nature calls the shots from the other side. Every critter dies his own death no matter how many are in the pile and that’s a tough reality for every crusty ol’ stockman to take with his heart.

Good luck for next year.

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When I heard the closing of Interstate 90…Got out the road map—that’s over 200 miles.

I am a retired dairyman with 80 years same herd Dad started in 1924. But never anything like this.

We are praying for you and your families.

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Our thoughts and prayers are with those dealing with the Atlas Blizzard. We have a small beef cow-calf herd in Minnesota and know the work and love that goes with raising livestock.

God bless them all and everyone helping.

The Bible says we should help our neighbors and would like to do this in a small way. Our pastor at Hosanna Free Lutheran Church, St. James, MN, had an insert in our church bulletin and encouraged donation. May God bless the ranchers.

Our hearts go out to the ranchers in South Dakota that lost livestock in the Atlas storm.

We hope that this donation will find its way to a cow-calf operator that was impacted by the storm.

God bless all those fine ranch families. From your Idaho neighbors.

zards, but never seen anything like that. My heart and prayers go out to all those people, I hope this can help some.

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Enclosed please find a check to help you—it isn’t much but we’re thinking of all of you. We realize that you had a terrible loss. We

May you all be wrapped in I have been a rancher my whole know what it is to go through a loss. the arms of angels during this try- life, am somewhat retired now. Last year our crop was very low ing time. We are praying that God Have been thru some BAD bliz- and this year it’s very good.

“Our cattle are a part of who we are, not just what we do.” will grant you comfort and solace now and in the coming years as you are rebuilding your herds.

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Thank you for collecting $ for the ranchers. We have seen the tragedy on the TV. We are so sorry. We raise longhorns and horses, once we lost 7 head of horses when they fell through the ice on the Little Sioux River. This blizzard affects not only ranchers but also truckers, sale barns, etc.

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So God helps out. tional toll has got to be overwhelm Hope this check will help a lit- ing. The Bible talks about the sheptle as well as our prayers. herd and his sheep. Here we have the rancher and his cows. Some he likes, some he hates, but he feeds Brought my cows home from and cares for all of them and when grass today. When I looked over the they die some of him or her dies pairs I thought what it must be like too. You are in our thoughts and to see half of them dead. The emo- prayers!

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• GLASGOW, MT

GLASGOW STOCKYARDS, INC.

P.O. Box 129 • Glasgow, MT 59230 (406) 228-9306 E-mail: gsi@nemont.net www.glasgowstockyards.com Linda & Mark Nielsen, Owners Iva Murch, Manager Field Representatives Dean Barnes: 406-263-1175 Ed Hinton: 406-893-4462 Representatives for Northern Livestock Video Auction Sale Day Every Thursday

DIRECTORY • PLATTE, SD

Call today to list your Sale Barn in the Tri-State Livestock News

1-877-347-9100 • FT. PIERRE, SD FT.

PIERRE LIVESTOCK AUCTION, INC. Cattle Every Friday

Computerized Ring Scale Special Sales as Advertised

800-280-7210

Sale Barn: 605-223-2576

Dennis Hanson: 605-223-2575 Willie Cowan: 605-224-5796 Jack Carr: 605-259-3613 Brian Hanson: 605-280-1283 Chad Heezen: 605-870-0697 • KIMBALL, SD

KIMBALL LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE Selling Fat Cattle the Auction Way

605-778-6211 • 800-859-2346 Cattle Sell Every Tuesday

OWNER: Wayne Tupper 605-778-8211 Eddie Houska: 605-234-5633 • (C): 605-680-0666 Dick Deffenbaugh: 605-680-1324 Check out our website at: www.wesellcattle.com

• GORDON, NE

• BOWMAN, ND

BOWMAN AUCTION MARKET P.O. Box 58 Bowman, ND 58623 877-211-0600 Regular Sale Every Monday

Marketing Cattle, Horses, Sheep & Hogs

Dick Minor 308-282-2655 • 308-360-0427 www.gordonlivestock.com

Regular Cattle Sales Tuesday Special Feeder Sales In Season Horse Sales As Advertised Home of Frontier Stockyards

10519531ROffice • 406-234-1790 800-755-5177 Harry Kerr, Mgr.JC Heiken Angus Bart Meged • 406-421-5377 701-523-5922 Cell 406-951-3005 701-523-5666C=1 (h) M=1 Y=1 OtherRob Fraser • 406-234-2066 Wayne Miller Sarah Swenson, 1SD09 Cell 406-853-2066

Field Rep 701-523-6885

• RUSHVILLE, NE

Sheridan LiveStock auction co., inc.

Regular Sales Wednesday Office (308) 327-2406

Horse Sales Every Month As Advertised Hogs Sell at 9:30 a.m.

Weigh-ups & Bulls Sell at 11:00 a.m.

Stock Cattle Sell at 1:00 p.m.

Owner: Dan Otte Fieldmen: Wayde Bolden, Kirk Otte Link Thompson • Galen Voss

• TORRINGTON, WY

626 West Valley Rd. Torrington, WY 307-532-3333

308-282-1171

• MILES CITY, MT

MILES CITY LIVESTOCK COMMISSION

All Classes – Every Friday Yearlings & Calves – Wednesday Bred Cow Specials Go to www.torringtonlivestock.com for current listings, sale schedules & results

Shawn Madden 307-532-1575 Lex Madden – 307-532-1580

www.frontierstockyards.com

www.milescitylivestock.com

• CRAWFORD, NE

Sales Every Friday Office: 308-665-2220 Fax: 308-665-2224

Toll Free: 866-665-2220

Horse Sales As Advertised Owners: Jack & Laurel Hunter: 308-665-1402 • Cell: 308-430-9108

www.crawfordlivestock.com e-mail: clm@crawfordlivestock.com • HERREID, SD

HERREID LIVESTOCK MARKET Regular Cattle Sales Every Friday Special Sales by Appointment 605-437-2265

Owners/Managers Hermann Schumacher Joe Vetter J.R. Scott

PLATTE

LIVESTOCK MARKET

800-337-2655 Cattle Sale Each Wednesday Feeder Pigs Monday 12:30 pm Butcher Hogs Monday 1:00 pm Sheep Sales Every Monday 1:30 pm Co-Owners: Scott Kirsch, Sheep & Cattle Rep. 605-337-2616 Marshall Ringling, Sheep & Cattle Rep. 605-243-2328 Alvie Timmermans, Auct. & Mkt. Rep. 605-243-2235 John Dean: (C) 605-680-1972

• PRESHO, SD

PRESHO LIVESTOCK AUCTION SALE EVERY THURSDAY

Presho, SD is located on Interstate 90, 175 miles east of Rapid City, SD Toll-Free: 800-753-6455 Ronald Volmer Res.: 1-605-895-2378 • 605-381-2501 Cody Volmer Res.: 1-605-895-2393 • Cell: 1-605-222-9270

www.presholivestock.com • BILLINGS, MT

BILLINGS LIVESTOCK COMMISSION

Cattle Sales Every Thursday Monday IN Season Northern Livestock Video Auction Horse Sale the 4th weekend of each month For Information or to Consign Call: 1-800-635-7364 or call: Ty Thompson 406-698-4783 Dan Catlin 406-671-7715 Bill Cook 406-670-0689 website: www.billingslivestock.com

• BASSETT, NE

Bassett Livestock Auction, Inc. 402-684-2361 Regular and Special Feeder Cattle Sales on Wednesdays Owners: Arlen (Bim) Nelson • 402-684-3922 Donnie Painter • 402-684-2221 Office Manager: Jeri Nelson • 402-684-2361

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raising cattle, horses and sheep and cannot fathom how heart wrenching this is for the producers. Good luck and God speed to everyone as they start to recover.

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I want to help too. In Dec. 1964 I and husband lost 45 cows—froze to death. 25 below zero. Wind blew 30 hours straight.

We survived the loss. I pray these ranchers too will.

Although a resident of western South Dakota, I really don’t have any direct contact with the ranching community but I know hurt when I see it. Hope this small contribution can help.

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Please use these funds where needed the most. We are so sorry for the great loss and we continue to pray for everyone affected.

Proverbs 3:5,6

Wish we could give more— Our thoughts and prayers go out to these people. A small donation from another rancher. Wellington, Nev.

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I am 93. Have been in the cattle since 1960. Bought cattle from a ranch S.W. of Winner for many years.

Had a blizzard in Jan. ’70. Had load to go on Tues. Took to a week to get there and back. Lucky no deaths. Lost calves in April storm.

I feel for the ranchers loss of long time breeding. Life goes on! City folks don’t know what it takes to put food in the store. The no rain in our area but still better crop than I expected. Hope you get a good response.

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10525179R Orwig’s Livestock Supplements Inc. C=1 M=1 Y=1 OtherSarah Swenson, 1SD09

From an old cattle feeder. I bought my first cattle in 1957 in the Piedmont area. My sons have expanded the feed yard 100 fold.

Good luck to all the ranch folks that were hit by the storm.

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Please accept this donation to use towards recovering from the Atlas blizzard. We are ranchers in Buffalo, Wy. and are heartbroken for the loss of cattle, horses and sheep that you experienced. Please know that many people are praying for you and support you.

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We farm in south central Minn.

The early snowstorm in S. Dakota sounded bad—hope for the best recovery possible. God has blessed us—may he bless you folks also.

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Please use this donation to help those who were badly beaten up by the October storm. I myself run cattle and realize how devastating this is for many of these independent producers I know as well as those I don’t know. The lifestyle these folks represent and the values they have and live by every day must not be forgotten and we must not lose it as a society.

I am thankful I only lost one calf as a result of the storm, but for those who were hit so hard, my thoughts and prayers are with those families and I hope they will recover and persevere.

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My son and I and our families hearts break for what you are going through. When I got out of high school my father asked me what I wanted to do with the rest of my life and I said, “I just want to stay in the cattle business.” He advised me “you better find a damn good job to pay for it.” I have often thought how fortunate I was to have taken his advice, but when Mother Nature deals a blow to you like this, it can be almost impossible to overcome. I realize this is not much, but it came from the heart and our wishes that in time this will be overcome and life will have some normalcy again.

Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you. Clovis, Calif.

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We read with sad hearts about the loss you experienced. We’re a small dairy farm and remembered back to a similar storm in 1977 in which we were more fortunate. We wanted to help and will be praying for you ranchers and farmers in SD.

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Advertiser Index 5L Red Angus.......................................... 8 Bovalink / Garth Waletich.................116 Common Sense Mfg............................ 81 Agri-Best Feeds.................... Back Cover Bridger Steel........................................... 5 Country Pride Coop............................. 82 Arnold Realty........................................ 75 Butler Machinery Co............................ 40 Cowbos/Penny Newman.................... 73 Assman Implement........................64, 93 Butte Co Equipment..........................114 Cross Diamond Cattle Co..................... 7 Bejot Feed Lots..................................... 47 Cammack Ranch Supply..................... 97 Crystalyx................................................. 67 Bieber Red Angus.................................. 1 Carls Trailers.......................................... 86 Dean Odden & Sons........................... 87 Bill’s Volume Sales..............................101 Cattle Range.......................................... 83 Diamond D Angus............................... 59 Black Hills Stock Show......................... 10 CHS Nutrition........................................ 95 Dikoff Ranch........................................118 Divine Concrete.................................... 49 Farm Credit Services............................ 16 Farmers National Company............... 51 IntroducIng the newest, most InovatIve websIte for cattlemen

Fawcett’s Elm Creek Ranch...............119 FMG Feed & Seed................................ 30 Forgey & Graesser Angus................... 99 Forster Red Angus.............................107 Genex Hawkeye West.......................... 30 Goldies Auto & Trailer Sales............... 18 Green Mountain Angus....................... 79

• Browse through our cattle classifieds listings

Hersruds of Sturgis............................106

• Search for registered cattle by breed and/or location • View photos, videos & EPDs

Hewitt Land Company........................ 23

• Stay updated with sale dates and sale results

High Plains Genetics............................ 89

• Find semen in our advanced sire directory

Hipke Welding...................................... 77

• Easily link to producer’s websites, catalogs, and online sales

HL Brunner & Sons Feedyard............. 22

10522967R Bovalink / Garth Waletich C=1 M=1 Y=1 OtherSusan Cable, 1SD05

Hutchison Western............................... 41 Jamison Herefords & Quarter Horses.... ..............................Inside Back Cover JC Heiken Angus................................111 Jenner Equipment.............................105 Johnson-Rose Angus........................... 63 Kay Dee Feeds....................................112 Kennedy Implement............................ 31 Kyle Gilchrist......................................... 96 Liewer Enterprises..............................105 Lindskov Implement......................88, 92 Livestock Market Directory...... 109, 110

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SeedStoCk ProduCerS: Contact us to learn more about our program

M & J Auto............................................. 70 Matt Lowery........................................... 71 Meyerink Farm Service........................ 55

Midwest Auction Pages.....................100 Midwest Liquid Feeds......................... 72 Mountain View Metal Works............... 78 Multimin...............................................108 National Western Stock Show..........117 No Bull Enterprises.............................. 65 Orwig’s Livestock Supplements Inc....... .......................................................113

10521763R Platte Power Sports C=1 M=1 Y=1 OtherSusan Cable, 1SD05

Palmer Cap-Chur Equip...................... 55 Parasal Manufacturing......................... 15 Pieper Red Angus.................................. 2 Platte Power Sports............................117 Premier Equipment.............................. 45 Pyramid Beef........................................... 6

We Have Something for Everyone East Highway 44 • Platte, SD 605-337-2110 Visit us online at: plattepowersports.biz

Quality Liquid Feeds..........................103 Ranchers Livestock Equipment.......... 91 RangeMate..........................................120 Raven Angus Ranch............................. 66 Real Tuff Inc.........................................115 Red Angus Assoc of America............. 85 Redland Black Angus.......................... 32 Rice Honda.............................................. 4 Rowse Rakes Inc.................................100 Saint Onge Livestock Co..................... 60 Sinclair Cattle Company........................... .............................Inside Front Cover Sioux Nation Ag Center....................104 Sonstegard Cattle Co.......................... 44 Split Diamond Ranch............................. 3 Stuart Concrete...................................115 The NILE................................................ 80

10519552R National Western Stock Show C=0 M=0 Y=0 OtherSarah Swenson, 1SD09

Tri-State Livestock News................17, 61 Vermeer................................................. 14 Wenzel Construction........................... 64 West River Industries.........................100 Westway Feed Products...................... 94 Willrodt Motors...................................108

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CED 14 BW -2.4 WW 52 YW 95 Milk 25

CED 12 BW -1.2 WW 51 YW 92 Milk 36

10522236R Dikoff Ranch C=1 M=1 Y=1 OtherChris Effling, 1SD03 CED 12 BW 0.4 WW 57 YW 106 Milk 34

CED 12 BW -0.3 WW 51 YW 92 Milk 25

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CED 6 BW 2.0 WW 61 YW 109 Milk 29

CED 12 BW 0.7 WW 63 YW 107 Milk 26

ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Selling 125 Hereford and Angus bulls, commercial females and registered females

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Fawcett’s Elm Creek Ranch Keith, Cheryl, Matt, Kris and Erin Fawcett • Daniel, Kari, Hollis and Ivy Fawcett • Robert Fawcett 21115 344th Ave. • Ree Heights, SD 57371 605-943-5664 • kcfawcett@hotmail.com • www.fawcettselmcreekranch.com • Daniel 605-870-6172

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RANGEMATE LIQUID LIVESTOCK SUPPLEMENT • Contains 16 to 40% protein and 5 to 12% fat • Vitamins A, D, and E • 100% chelated SQM minerals • Made from corn, soy, and vegetable products • Can be custom-blended to fit any program from the ranch to the feedlot

WITH SQM POLYTRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY, TRACE MINERALS GET USED, NOT WASTED, UNLIKE INORGANIC MINERALS SUCH AS OXIDES AND SULFATES Created from a custom blend of polysaccharides, PolyTransport technology forms a protective escort around SQM trace minerals. This escort shields the minerals from digestive damage until they can be absorbed and used by the animal.

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Thanks to PolyTransport Technology, SQM trace minerals are protected from damaging antagonists that can prevent or hamper absorption of minerals and diminish their benefits.

The only organic recommended for 100% inclusion, SQM trace minerals benefit microbes in the rumen and target tissue in the animal.

SQM Released mineral Antagonists Microbes

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10522218R Jamison Herefords & Quarter Horses C=1 M=1 Y=1 OtherScott Dirk, 1SD21

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