By SUE ROESLER, Farm and Ranch Guide
MILES CITY, Mont. – The first load of heifers through the Heifers for South Dakota fund-raising program has been donated to a Hermosa, S.D., rancher who lost half his herd in the October Atlas blizzard.
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