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    CHERRY COUNTY PRIDE - By Steve Moreland, June 21, 2019

    CHERRY COUNTY PRIDE By Steve Moreland – June 21, 2019 Cherry County is wonderful cattle country in the heart of the Nebraska Sandhills, and has more mother cows than any other county in the nation. This has always been a source of pride for those of us who live here. Bovine residents number...
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    BIRTHDAY BUST By Steve Moreland, April 20, 2019

    BIRTHDAY BUST By Steve Moreland, April 20, 2019 The year was 1980, and the day was November 8th. It was my 29th birthday. Carol and I were ranching on our first “Spearhead Ranch,” which was located 20 miles south of Merriman, Nebraska. My folks ranched eight miles northeast of Merriman, and...
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    A TALE OF WOE IN THE SNOW By Brock Moreland, February 24, 2019

    A TALE OF WOE IN THE SNOW By Brock Moreland, February 24, 2019 Recently I have been a little depressed, as nine months ago I made the really poor decision to kick bulls out with my cattle to calve the last half of February. Frigid temperatures haven’t been conducive for vigorous baby calves...
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    SOMETIMES THINGS DON’T TURN OUT QUITE AS PLANNED By Steve Moreland, February 17, 2019

    SOMETIMES THINGS DON’T TURN OUT QUITE AS PLANNED By Steve Moreland, February 17, 2019 Back in the 1970’s in the RAPID CITY JOURNAL, there was an accident report of interest. A man was driving down the highway on a very dark night. Ahead on the road, he saw two jackrabbits. He sped up his...
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    Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef

    Does anyone have any thoughts on the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef? I think it's a scary proposition. Listen to some of Dr. Jason Clay's ideas on life. He is with the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), which seems to be tied in with the GRSB. His philosophy is quite scary also...
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    MEMORIES OF THE MARTIN LIVESTOCK AUCTION By Steve Moreland, 1-24-2019

    MEMORIES OF THE MARTIN LIVESTOCK AUCTION By Steve Moreland, January 24, 2019 As of January 2019, the sale barn in Martin, South Dakota has changed hands. I wish the new owners well, and hope their step-of-faith carries on to be very successful for them, and that this livestock auction is a...
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    UTILIZING THE SERVICES OF A COW CAT By Steve Moreland, January 22, 2019

    UTILIZING THE SERVICES OF A COW CAT By Steve Moreland, January 22, 2019 A fun event to attend each year is Jake Clark’s Mule Days in Ralston, Wyoming. It is a several day extravaganza of mule-related events culminating with an auction of some of the premier saddle mules to be found anywhere...
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    MEMORIES OF C.G. (GAIL) AND CECIL AVERY By Steve Moreland, January 18, 2019

    MEMORIES OF C.G. (GAIL) AND CECIL AVERY By Steve Moreland, January 18, 2019 Recently while visiting with a few friends, our memories turned to C.G. (Gail) Avery, well-driller supreme. Gail married Cecil Johnson. Their names always seemed to me to be in reverse, because Gail was the man, and...
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    Telling it like it was

    A few days ago I was walking out of the local gas station and saw my friend Rob Cook replacing a wheel bearing on a truck axle. He was elbow deep in grease, and looked somewhat uncomfortable doing the task at hand. I congratulated him on his work ethic and ability. He grinned, said he wasn’t...
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    WINDY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JAUNT THROUGH THE HILLS, by Steve Moreland, January 17, 2019

    WINDY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JAUNT THROUGH THE HILLS By Steve Moreland, January 17, 2019 It was mild for that time of year but a very windy day back on Wednesday, February 18th, 1986. Carol and I, and our three-year-old son, Will, were ranching about twenty miles south of Merriman. We lived on...
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    MY DAD’S JACKRABBIT SALES in 1956, by Steve Moreland, January 13, 2019

    MY DAD’S JACKRABBIT SALES in 1956 By Steve Moreland, January 13, 2019 During the winter of 1955-1956, my dad enjoyed rabbit hunting when ranch work wasn’t too pressing. Some evenings after supper, Dad would drive out through the pastures with a spotlight and get what he could with his old .22...
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    THOUGHTS ABOUT A BORDER WALL, by Steve Moreland, January 9, 2019

    THOUGHTS ABOUT A BORDER WALL By Steve Moreland, January 9, 2019 Back in the days of the open range, cattle ran more or less unrestricted. Cowboys on round-ups in the spring and fall gathered these herds, calves were branded, and cattle designated to be sold as beef were sorted and trailed to...
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    Memories of the ALL-AMERICAN CATTLEMEN’S DAY Saturday, June 9, 1973

    ALL-AMERICAN CATTLEMEN’S DAY Saturday, June 9, 1973 Memories of that day, by Steve Moreland, as of December 31, 2018 This was in the May 1973 issue of THE NEBRASKA CATTLEMAN: Beef Breeds Field Day at Whitman Ready for June 9 The appearance of country western singing star Leroy Van Dyke...
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    SLIM, by Steve Moreland, December 10, 2018

    SLIM By Steve Moreland, December 10, 2018 On a summer day a year or two after the 20th Century slipped into the 21st Century, my eleven or twelve-year-old son Brock and I headed out with a load of salt and mineral to distribute to cattle in several pastures. Carol must not have been home, and...
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    ONE OF MY BETTER DAYS OF COWBOYING, AND I DIDN’T EVEN HAVE A HORSE

    ONE OF MY BETTER DAYS OF COWBOYING, AND I DIDN’T EVEN HAVE A HORSE By Steve Moreland, November 17, 2018 The exact year escapes me, but it would have been sometime in the late 1980’s. I had about 200 yearling heifers that had spent the winter on the Ries Brothers Ranch south of Wood Lake...
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    THE BLIZZARD OF 1956

    Stan Moreland was my dad, Bob Moreland's brother. Stan died in 1999. From the book SHORT STORIES BY STAN, by Stan Moreland, Merriman, Nebraska, published in 1995. THE BLIZZARD OF 1956 Early in the morning of November 2, 1956, we woke to a howling blizzard at the ranch. My cousin’s son, Joe...
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    HAPPENINGS OF OCTOBER 9th, 2018 - by Steve Moreland

    HAPPENINGS OF OCTOBER 9th, 2018 By Steve Moreland Lately here in the northern Nebraska Sandhills, we have had several days of unseasonably cold wet foggy dreary days. On Tuesday, October 9th our ranch hand Bryce Weisser and I moved a bunch of cattle first thing in the morning. Poor visibility...
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    VISIT WITH AN OLD NEIGHBOR, by Steve Moreland, originally written October 22, 2003

    VISIT WITH AN OLD NEIGHBOR By Steve Moreland, originally written October 22, 2003 We rolled through town about noon today with horses on a trailer, pulled with one pickup, and a portable loading chute hooked onto a Hydra-Bed pickup which also hauled two big round bales of hay. We stopped at...
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    AN INTERESTING AUCTION 40 YEARS AGO, by Steve Moreland, September 19, 2018

    AN INTERESTING AUCTION 40 YEARS AGO By Steve Moreland, September 19, 2018 For many years I was a regular subscriber to THE DRAFT HORSE JOURNAL, billed as: “The World’s Foremost Heavy Horse and Mule Publication.” The magazine was started in 1964, was published quarterly, and I thoroughly...
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    INTERESTING ENCOUNTER AT THE SALE BARN, by Steve Moreland, September 8, 2018

    INTERESTING ENCOUNTER AT THE SALE BARN By Steve Moreland, September 8, 2018 This past Thursday, Brock and I sold 22 open yearling heifers at the Valentine sale barn. They had been ultra-sound tested the week before, and with Labor Day being last week, it was Tuesday before I could consign them...
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