Farming and Ranching: It's in their blood

It seems an invisible force, perhaps like gravity, or maybe something more like a Jedi force, tugged Jody Manuel into the stratosphere of the rancher farmer life his father and grandfathers have lived, despite his intent to stray from the family business.

"I can't imagine doing anything else," he said.

Jody went to Montana State University in Bozeman and then Montana State University-Northern and earned a civil engineering and technology degree.

But the agricultural producer in him wouldn't have it.

Jody said that one day in 1991 his uncle sat down with him and said, "You know, you should be d...