MITCHELL, S.D. – The snow’s blowing sideways, the heavy stuff. It’s one of the few winter storms this year and it happens to fall on the first days of March, calving season.
Steve Easton checks cameras in his calving barn from the comforts of home.
Royce Erdmann enters a pen at the family's ranch near Leola, S.D.
The Erdmann family works together to move cattle near Leola, S.D.
Spectrum is a bull with promising numbers, prompting the Erdmann family to buy straws of semen with which to breed their cows.
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