MEDORA, N.D. — The worst thing Chad Hammerstrom ever witnessed was the sorrow on his mother's face when she saw the piles of dead cows and calves in snow-blinded herds pushed off creek banks on their ranch in South Dakota.
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Ranchers reach out to ranchers hit by blizzard cattle deaths
These bred cows in a pasture west of Medora, and others like them, will be worth more in the market as ranchers start replacing the tens of thousands of cattle that perished in the Oct. 5 snowstorm in northern South Dakota and parts of southern North Dakota.
North Dakota’s state and federal officials are moving forward on recovery efforts from the early season winter storm that pounded the southwes…
MILES CITY, Mont. – Donations of bred heifers, cows up to 7-years old and new heifer calves are increasing daily that will go to northwestern …
Aberdeen, SD --- In an effort to help ranchers who suffered tremendous loss of livestock during the October 4-7 blizzard, Wheat Growers is sup…
RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Michael Scuse announced today that conservation assistance is a…
Cambridge, Mass. — As farmers in Colorado deal with serious flood damage and ranchers in South Dakota dig out from an early blizzard that kill…
There are times in this world when we all need to stop, take a deep breath and reflect. Death on the prairies is never easy, but it is all too…
Some producers in southwestern North Dakota lost livestock due to last weekend’s unseasonal blizzard.
As of Oct. 1, the federal government officially went into a “shutdown” mode, meaning that all government services deemed as “non-essential” we…
A major storm the first weekend in October brought widespread rain across North Dakota, with heavier rain amount in the south central region a…
The first heavy snowfall of the year arrived the first weekend of October, and hit South Dakota harder than North Dakota.
Progress on new farm legislation took a big step forward on Oct. 12 when the House of Representatives finally appointed its members to the con…
The United States Cattlemen's Association (USCA) said today that winter storm Atlas, which struck the northern plains over the weekend of Octo…
Dean Meyer said he slept a little better Thursday night, after getting cattlemen at Stockmen's Livestock on a roll that ended more than $3,600 later.
North Dakota Farmers Union has donated $2,500 to the Rancher Relief Fund to help those affected by cattle loss in the October blizzard.
