Ranchers provide beef to local community

From Montana Farm Bureau Federation

The Producers Partnership in Livingston has to date donated almost 5,000 pounds of beef to local food banks, food pantries and other area community centers.

Park County Farm Bureau member Matt Pierson said the idea of giving back to his community spawned out of his idea to donate a cull cow for beef to those in need during the pandemic.

“It started with me calling area ranchers I know to see if they could donate a cull cow,” Pierson said.

What started as one rancher’s idea snowballed not only for cull cow beef donations, but in raising $12,000 for processing...