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...help him and his wife Marie raise his cattle, 2,800 head of Angus and Hereford. But such is the state of ranching economics today that family operations like Riverside are dying. "You have to says in a lot extra of everything these days to make a profit," says Hanson...
Like his parents, Hanson still butchers his own meat for family meals, heats herd house with wood, and uses cowboys on horseback to trail his herd down a the summer ranges. But now he rides in a Ford pickup, with a CB radio crackling away. He relies on machines - swathers, balers and stackers - to get the hay in. He is constantly on the phone to his accountant in Helena, and spends hours hunched over the kitchen table with his pocket calculator. "Ranching is a lot, lot more than raising cattle nowadays," says Hanson. "It involves accounting, mechanics, sophisticated farming...
...beef market has not kept pace with inflation over the past several years, despite what those who buy steak at more than $3 per lb. might think. While his choice steers brought 80? per lb. last year, Hanson expects to get only about 71? per lb. this year...
...same time, the cost of almost everything involved in raising cattle has soared. In 1972, for example, Hanson paid $10 to plant one acre of alfalfa; today the price...
...game dominated by strong defensive play on both sides, the only score came late in the second quarter. A Bruce Hanson interception of a pass from Eliot quarterback Dave Gessner, compounded by a spearing against Eliot in the same play, gave SoHo possession of the ball on the Eliot...