In Minnesota’s north country, a former kindergarten teacher-turned-rancher carefully walks forward on muddy, thawing ground ...
Soon cattle grazed on Little Timber Farms. “We had really good markets in 2014 and then everything crashed,” said Gray, who does custom calving and raises heifers that are shipped around the ...
Rancher Rachel Gray moves cattle between pens for calving at her family’s Little Timber Farm in Blackduck, Minn., on Feb. 21. (Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...
Since 2002, Minnesota has lost roughly 25% of its beef cattle farms, dropping to around 11,700 farms in the latest U.S.