By DALE HILDEBRANT
Farm & Ranch Guide
MEDINA, N.D.-The calf numbers are a bit like a revolving door at the Schmidt operation. Some more steers were shipped out of the Schmidt feedlot operation on Jan. 15. But he also recently agreed to take in some heifer calves to background for a couple of months until spring.
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