Although June is Dairy Month, many dairy farmers feel that every month is dairy month.
- Amy Hadachek
The beloved memory of a U.S. Marine from Nebraska is living on through his family’s generous scholarship offer.
- Melisa Goss
Sarah Nohr has her sights set on gold. The 23-year-old Sioux Falls woman is heading to Orlando, Florida June 5-12 to compete in equestrian events during the Special Olympics USA games.
The late Walter Gibbons once described his ancestors as “more horsemen than cattlemen.” In his lifetime, he attained prominence in both.
Rodeo was a way of life on the Phillipps’ Calamus River Ranch. Both parents, Dale and Elizabeth Bell Phillipps were active rodeo and horsemanship people.
Editor’s Note: The Sandhills Cowboy Hall of Fame is inducting 11 new honorees with a ceremony June 11 in Valentine, Nebraska. Each week through mid-June, we’ll meet the inductees.
Rodeo was a way of life on the Phillipps’ Calamus River Ranch. Both parents, Dale and Elizabeth Bell Phillipps were active rodeo and horsemanship people.
Bill Manning has mentored many young people into championships in the rodeo arena as well as their chosen walk in life.
Editor’s Note: The Sandhills Cowboy Hall of Fame is inducting 11 new honorees with a ceremony June 11 in Valentine, Nebraska. Each week through mid-June, we’ll meet the inductees.
- Jane Henderson
He’s one of those therapists who doesn’t say much, really. No probing questions about one’s mood or concerns.
- By Ruth Nicolaus, Courtesy of the Adams County Ag Society
This past spring, the seniors among the Nebraska State High School Rodeo athletes exchanged cowboy hats for mortarboard hats, and several of them graduated at the top of their classes.
There’s a help wanted sign out on the gate for the 2021 National High School Finals Rodeo.
- By Lura Roti for South Dakota Farmers Union
“Most farmers, when they retire, they buy a boat and they go out in the middle of a lake with a cooler of beer and fish. I will take my beer cooler and go sit in the middle of a pasture and just watch my cows. Then, when I’m done, I head home and I don’t have any fish to clean.”
There’s a pretty special horse in Dane Pokorny’s barn.
- Amy Hadachek
Navigating their way through the pandemic has been a rougher ride than getting bucked off a wild bronc. That’s the take of a group of young women on the bronc rider circuit who had been having the time of their lives learning within a team sport, growing in confidence.
Rich Reinert has a part in the Buffalo Bill Rodeo that fans never see.
It’s been since the 1940s when a cowgirl, riding a bucking bronc, came out of a chute at the Black Hills Roundup.
- By Ruth Nicolaus, courtesy of the Adams County Ag Society
Faith Storer loves the idea of working in the ER. “It’s fast paced and more action,” she said.
- Amy Hadachek
“Reining teaches discipline, and competence in a person’s ability.” The athleticism of the horses is startling, Cindy Johnson said. That’s what got her addicted.
Nine cowboys from the Nebraska Panhandle are being honored with an induction into the Nebraska Sandhills Cowboy Hall of Fame.
The U.S. Targhee Sheep Association (USTSA) is offering a free registered Targhee starter flock to a deserving youth. It will be awarded at the association’s national show and sale this summer in Redfield, South Dakota.
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