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.
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Steve Easton checks cameras in his calving barn from the comforts of home.
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Royce Erdmann enters a pen at the family's ranch near Leola, S.D.
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The Erdmann family works together to move cattle near Leola, S.D.
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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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With a good disposition, Lovey became a show heifer on the Erdmann ranch, winning reserve champion at the South Dakota State Fair.
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