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I’m currently researching and writing a history of the National Western Stock Show’s Catch a Calf program to mark its 90th year. The program began in 1935 with a group ...
Today, the whole Zerbe family provides help. His three brothers still participate in farming the land and helping around the ...
At their celebration on August 21 at the fair, they were given the celebrity treatment: giving a speech to a young group showing cattle, and signing autographs for family and friends. The three ...
A pair of stave silos offer a hint at the dairy farming that once went on at the Don and Sylvia Colby farm near Milnor, North Dakota. Mychal Wilmes says the old ways of rural life and farming ...
In 1931, William Stroeh’s farm in the Upper Hixon Forest was purchased by the federal and state departments of agriculture for $9.000. The 160 acres were purchased to act as ...
STORRS — In the heart of Storrs is a farm made up of multi-generation families that run one of the biggest dairy farms in the area. Mountain Dairy Farm was started by the Stearns family in 1772 when ...