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Rancher finds new way to market beef: Gas stations

Sue Roesler
Sep 14, 2020
Sep 14, 2020 Updated Sep 15, 2020

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Lacey Block on her ranch near Havana with some of her cattle in the winter.

Here is a mother cow with her calf on Lacey and Drew’s ranch near Havana.

Rancher’s Rebellion Beef Company beef can be purchased at Kwik Stop in Forman and at One Stop in Gwinner, N.D., and some SD locations, as well. She stops in Fargo once a week.

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Sue Roesler

HAVANA, N.D. – Sixth-generation farmer/rancher Lacey Block was not just concerned with making money for her own family and her family’s ranch when she started Rancher’s Rebellion Beef Company, LLC.

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