4 shareables from May


Here are my top 4 things that I wanted to share with you from the month of May. It might be something I read, somewhere I’ve gone or the people I have been with … Just a few little somethings I feel are shareable this month.  Try Not to React – When PETA posted the billboards showing cattle drowning and […]

Blom Case Update


On May 13, Robert Lee “Bob” Blom of Corsica, S.D. pleaded not guilty in a North Dakota court case that involves writing bad checks. In South Dakota, Blom also faces charges for overdrawing bank accounts and frauding some 53 individuals in cattle related business ventures in North Dakota and South Dakota. Earlier this year, First Dakota National Bank became alerted […]

Heavy rains flood South Dakota cattle country

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The national drought monitor released May 21 shows every part of the state of South Dakota out of drought. This comes as no surprise to its farmers and ranchers who have been dealing with large snow totals and continuous rain since February.  Much of the state is saturated. Gravel and paved county roads throughout the state have been stressed. Turner, […]

Blom Case Update



  By CBW Staff On May 13, Robert Lee “Bob” Blom of Corsica, S.D. pleaded not guilty in a North Dakota court case that involves writing bad checks. In South Dakota, Blom also faces charges for overdrawing bank accounts and frauding some 53 individuals in cattle related business ventures in North Dakota and South Dakota. Earlier this year, First Dakota […]

Freeman, S.D. farm family blends faith, cattle, music and volunteering together



By Lura Roti for SDFU Standing in their pasture, surrounded by cows with their new calves, Michelle Friesen points to a shelterbelt off to the southwest. “My mother grew up on a farm over there, about a year after my parents were married, my grandparents bought this place for my parents and they moved here,” explains the fourth-generation Freeman farmer. […]

Heavy rains flood South Dakota cattle country



By Codi Vallery-Mills The national drought monitor released May 21 shows every part of the state of South Dakota out of drought. This comes as no surprise to its farmers and ranchers who have been dealing with large snow totals and continuous rain since February.  Much of the state is saturated. Gravel and paved county roads throughout the state have […]

News from the Rodeo Trail 5-28-19



PRCA 2019 Ram World Standings – Unofficial through May 28, 2019 All Around 1. Caleb Smidt, Bellville TX $83,412.48 2. Clay Smith, Broken Bow, OK $69,732.18 3. Tuf Cooper, Decatur, TX $61,984.45 4. Stetson Wright, Milford, UT $61,153.81 5. Rhen Richard, Roosevelt, UT $49,079.78 7. Steven Dent, Mullen, NE $34,749.59 13. Eli Lord, Sturgis, SD, $20,631.83 17. Chance Oftedahl, Pemberton, […]

Secretary Perdue visits his 50th State



  U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue stepped foot in Utah last week making it his 50th state visited since becoming Secretary just over two years ago. Since then, he has traveled more than 100,000 miles, held nearly 200 townhall discussions and visited nearly 100 farms across the country listening to America’s farmers, ranchers, foresters and producers. “It is my […]

To enhance sustainability, look at hay management



  By Mark Boggess, director, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center Over the last four years, I served as the director of the USDA-Agricultural Research Service’s U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center (USDFRC) in Madison, Wisconsin. There, a consistent focus was on producing the best forage possible for the cowherd – one of the top-ranked herds in the county. Many dairymen can […]

United States Cattle on Feed Up 2 Percent



Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.8 million head on May 1, 2019. The inventory was 2 percent above May 1, 2018. This is the highest May 1 inventory since the series began in 1996. Placements in feedlots during April totaled 1.84 million […]