Producer Profiles

Riding the ups and downs of weather and markets can be a trying proposition, but for Sanders Ranch in the Buffalo Gap Grasslands of South Dakota’s Black Hills region, the key to it is balance – in managing the land and the commercial cow-calf operation of terminal Charolais-Angus crossbreds and the purebred Charolais bulls they have been breeding for generations.

“Let’s try it and see what happens” is the motto at Mark Diederich Family Farms in Greenleaf, Kansas. Mark Diederich is a fifth-generation rancher with an operation located an hour north of Manhattan.

Christmas is a special time because this is when we pause in our daily busyness to remember God’s greatest gift to us – in the birth of his Son, who showed us that we are all children of God and that we are loved by our Father.

It’s been almost two years since the flames came to the Texas-Oklahoma panhandles, stretching into Kansas and Colorado.

“First of all, duty to our country and God, and secondly to our traditions and our culture,” says Carlos Chacon, northern New Mexico rancher and Vietnam-era veteran. Chacon, like many ranchers in the industry, had his values instilled in him from the very beginning. These values led him to enlist in the Army and serve our country for four years.

Tyson. ConAgra. Cargill. They’re some of the biggest names in the meat business. Bow Creek Farm and Cattle Co. is a small name that’s beginning to make a big statement in central Pennsylvania.