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A love for cattle is ingrained in every cattleman’s soul

Michael Rosmann
Feb 2, 2017
Feb 2, 2017 Updated Nov 15, 2017

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Raising cattle was one of the best parts of farming for me. In particular I enjoyed producing and contributing to high quality beef animals in our registered Simmental herd for quite a few years, but not for as many years as I would have liked.

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