By RYAN CROSSINGHAM, Assistant Editor
LINTON, N.D. – Representing the third generation to farm the land and live on the homestead, Doug and Maria Bichler, owners and operators of Bichler Simmentals and Red Angus, continue a nearly 100-year family legacy of caring for their land and animals in south-central North Dakota.
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