Moving cattle to a new pasture before weaning/shipping day.
Convoys of cattle trucks will soon be trundling loads of cattle along Highway 141 and Highway 200, moving cattle from mountain pastures to home ranches and hauling weaned calves to feedlots across the Midwest.
Selling calves marks the fall rotation of cattle ranching in the Blackfoot Valley and throughout ranching country in the United States. It's payday for ranchers as they ship off their main commodity - beef calves - to feedlots.
Cattle receipts of $1.8 billion dollars in 2021 rank cattle as the highest ranking Montana commodity since 2013, according to 2021 United States Department of Agr...
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