About our Writers meet the winter cattle journal contributors
Carrie Stadheim - Editor
Carrie Stadheim and her husband raise cattle, sheep and kids on the western North Dakota-South Dakota border. Now the editor of Tri-State Livestock News, Carrie previously served as the Executive Director of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association and freelanced for a number of livestock publications including Range, Hereford America and the Angus Journal.
Maria Tussing Assistant Editor
Before coming aboard with Tri-State Livestock News in April, Maria worked in marketing at Prairie Berry Winery and did freelance writing for ag publications. She grew up on a commercial cow-calf ranch in western Nebraska, and now lives with her three kids in western South Dakota.
Jennifer Garreau
Jennifer Garreau is a freelance journalist from Lodgepole, South Dakota, where she lives and works on a commercial cattle ranch, farm and feedlot. Her articles have appeared in local, regional and national publications. Educated in animal science and ag journalism, agriculture has been her lifelong passion. Visit her blog at mtranchgirl. wordpress.com.
Colette “Koko” Gjermundson Heather Hamilton-Maude
Writer and photographer Heather HamiltonMaude is a fifth generation rancher raised in northern Niobrara County on a cattle and sheep ranch. Today, she and husband Charles own a cowcalf, small grain/forage and farrow to finish hog operation 35 miles southeast of Rapid City, South Dakota on the Cheyenne River.
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Colette “Koko” Gjermundson is a wife, mother and North Dakota freelance writer. Her work with the Tri-State Livestock News began in college, using a Brother memory typewriter and mailed film, which publication employees wound and developed in-house. (But she’s really not that old.) She has essays published in anthologies Woven on the Wind and Crazy Woman Creek.