Producer Profiles

If you’ve ever put together a jigsaw puzzle, you know that once you get started joining a few pieces together and begin to get a glimpse of the total picture, it motivates you to keep working on the project.

You know the feeling you get when you put on a fresh pair of blue jeans and stick your hand in your pocket only to find a crumpled-up dollar bill?

There is a flame of passion burning strong in Jim Kopriva despite candidly admitting the reins of Kopriva Angus near Raymond, South Dakota, are split with his son.

“It’s important to note John Wayne never made a movie about rotational grazing. There’s nothing sexy about it,” said Brent Fry at the 2017 Arkansas Cattlemen’s Association convention in Fort Smith.

Wanted: ranch hand

• $25,000 salary
• Housing provided
• Cow-calf experience required

Ranching is deep-rooted in some folks and, for the Griffin family in west Texas, it goes back five generations with their hope of a sixth generation growing the passion they have for living on the land.