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Located 12 miles north of Watford City, resides KD Angus, a registered Angus breeding program that focuses on quality with a genetic selection goal of maintaining traits above the breed average. KD Angus focuses on docility, performance, natural thickness, and ease of fleshing ability while maintaining calving ease. The program utilizes the breeds top A.I. sires that Dragseth knows will enhance his breeding program while improving multiple traits including carcass traits that will add value to...
Prewitt & Company LLC has been the area's cattle marketing headquarters since 1996. The company has been involved in all avenues of the cattle industry including cattle buying, selling, and relocating. "We buy and sell cattle all over. We buy cattle off a lot of ranches in Montana and North Dakota and relocate them to feedlots in the Midwest," said Tim Larson, Prewitt & Company cattle buyer/seller and Sidney Livestock manager. The company also feeds its customers' cattle at their own feedlots th...
Stroh Hereford Ranch will be holding their 32nd Annual Ranch Ready Production Sale at 1 p.m. MST, Thursday, Feb. 3, at the ranch located 1.5 miles east of Killdeer Roundabout or 5 miles west of Dunn Center. This year's sale will feature 30 registered Horned Hereford Bulls, 3 commercial Horned Hereford Bulls, 10 commercial grade heifers bred to registered Black Angus Bulls and 20 Blue Ribbon Quality F1 Baldy Heifers. Stroh Herefords was established in 1950 by Tony (Anton) Stroh, Killdeer, ND....
Howard Rambur started his herd as a youngster with two crossbred Charolais heifers and a purebred Charolais bull. "I got a small loan from the local bank and was on my way to having my purebred business. Of course, I've been borrowing money ever since," said Rambur, who raises purebred Charolais cattle near Sidney, MT. Even though his father was primarily a sugar beet farmer, young Rambur's interest in livestock was piqued when he began working with cattle as 4-H projects. He wanted to own...
Drought brings many nutritional and animal health-related challenges. Cow performance issues during the grazing season may result from reduced forage quality and quantity. It is possible that cows will enter the fall and winter in lower than desired body condition score and with other potential nutrient deficiencies that may not be noticeable. Vitamin A deficiency is one potential challenge that may arise when feeding drought-affected forages, according to North Dakota State University (NDSU)...
Bozeman — Registration is now open for the 2022 Montana and Wyoming Sugar Beet and Malt Barley Symposium, which will be held Jan. 12-13 at Billings Hotel and Convention Center, Billings. The event is hosted by the Mountain States Crop Education Association, or MSCEA, which is comprised of industry representatives as well as Montana State University Extension faculty members. The first day of the event will focus on barley production. Presentations will cover topics including precision agriculture and disease, nutrient and weed management. F...
Robert "Bob" Stortz started what is now known as Stortz Angus Ranch when he returned from the Korean War in 1953. The ranch ventured into both polled and horned Herefords along with F1 crosses before ultimately landing on the Black Angus breed. Bob and his wife, Carla Jeanne, had seven children together. Their only son, Ted Stortz, now heads the Stortz Angus Ranch. Ted and his wife, Tarena, have four children; Chelsea, Robbie, Tate and Ben. Ted bought the ranch's first registered cows in 1989...
Farmers in the western Dakotas and eastern Montana will have the opportunity to hear nationally-known speakers address topics affecting agriculture in the region during North Dakota University (NDSU) Extension's Diversity, Direction and Dollars agricultural forum. It will be held Tuesday, Jan. 11 at the Roosevelt Grand Dakota Hotel, Dickinson. The forum will provide ideas for improving productivity and decreasing costs while providing high quality food produced in a sustainable manner....
Agricultural producers should do tax planning before the end of the year. “It is that time of the year again to think about year-end tax planning,” says Ron Haugen, North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension farm management specialist. “Generally, all or most of the government payments that farmers and ranchers received during the year must be reported as income in the year it is received,” says Haugen. “When tax planning, it is best to start with year-to-date income and expenses and estimate them for the remainder of the year,” says Haugen...
Regency Acres Angus Ranch is located on the eastern plains of Montana owned and operated by Russ and Jill Thiessen and their son, Tyler. Located south of Lambert, the ranch is a diversified dryland operation with registered Black Angus, hay, wheat, barley, oats, corn, peas, lentils, and canola being raised. The ranch is comprised of land that both of Russ's great grandparents homesteaded in the early 1900s. Russ's grandparents, C.R. and Ailee Thiessen purchased the ranch headquarters in 1944....
