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...Darrell Wood is proud of his cows--and he wants us to know it. As they chomp through the bitterbrush of California's high desert, their ears waggle a plastic ID tag adorned with a tiny American flag. And when steaks from Wood's 1,500 Angus are sold in markets out West, they sport a bold red-white-and-blue label: BORN & RAISED IN THE USA. "American ranchers raise the safest and best-quality cattle in the world," says Wood, a fifth-generation cattleman. "Consumers deserve to know where their meat comes from...
...years ago, Wood, 49, was deeply in debt...
...took a second job as a car salesman. "It was slow death," he recalls. "I couldn't offer my kids a life in ranching." But today, together with a handful of other California cattlemen, he sells his certified American beef to specialty grocers and restaurants at a premium. Says Wood, scattering jackrabbits as he steers his pickup past neatly fenced meadows: "Now I feel more confident of the future...
...follow the Model T of the small man in the over-worn sweater and slight facial hair down to the only other thing he has available: “the hut.” It has two lovely single beds, a gas stove, sink, fire place and stacks of wood. I run my hands over the walls to be sure the mischievous late afternoon sun hasn’t camouflaged a light switch, but no luck. The cabin lies on a small man-made lake filled with fish bred by the owner, Booker, a German man who immigrated...
...solid numbers should come as no surprise considering how well Mann swung a wood bat last summer in the Alaskan Summer Baseball League before his season was cut short due to a broken clavicle...