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Havin' A Cow: In the midst of calving season, ranchers talk about the business of cattle production
A calf stands in the sun at the Northern Agricultural Research Center south of Havre in mid-March.
After 2016, when cattle prices dropped to as low as half the prices seen the previous two years, cattle producers are working their way through a typical weather-diverse Montana winter and spring to get calves on the ground safely and start the progress to the sale market again.
Though calving season most often starts in January or early February for the purebred cattle breeders, Klint and Lori Swanson of Shipwheel Cattle Co. south of Chinook wait until March, calving their herd of 350 registered black Angus cows along with their 1,000 head of commercial cows.
Klint Swanson said March 26...
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