By MORGAN GARRISON
SHERIDAN, Mont. – As February wound to a finish in southwest Montana’s Ruby Valley, life remained more or less the same for the Mehlhoff family of 5L Red Angus. Which is to say, life remained busy as ever and cows were still calving.
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