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<blockquote data-quote="faster horses" data-source="post: 1725698" data-attributes="member: 17524"><p>I'm the oldest here, at least on this thread. Turned 76 last September. Do I win a prize?<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p><p></p><p>Married young to a young rancher whose folks had a small place in WY.</p><p>We were in the right place at the right time and were able to lease a ranch</p><p>in 1965 by running cattle on shares. It was a good place, great irrigated hay meadows, and the years were good. It sold and we left there in 1973 and went to a grass and cake outfit in WY. 72,000 acres. The owner passed away in 1975 so we had to leave. It was either find a place or go to work for someone. We found a small place in SW Montana and left our family and friends and moved there. We were there until 1993 when we moved to SE Montana. Bigger place. We ran Hereford cattle at the first place (WY) because it was a Hereford Ranch. We moved those cows to SW Montana and in 1979 we bought our first Black Angus heifers. Eventually our cattle were all Black Angus. We ran 200 head in SE Montana. I became a Vigortone mineral dealer in 1994 and it was life-changing. So I'm going on 28 years as a dealer. What an education we got; learned so much we didn't know that helped us and helped our neighbors and friends there. We always put up hay except for the 2 years on the grass and cake ranch. The SE MT ranch had some land in CRP, so that helped make the payments. We paid that place off and retired in 2016 and moved back to WY where our family is. I say, after being gone for 40 years that "we came home to die." Good people and good friends in Montana for sure, we had just been gone from our family too long. So we still put up hay on our little place here, but have no cattle or horses; just one cat that is 19 years old. I have to mention, we always had good cowdogs and we appreciated them all. They sure made working cattle easier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="faster horses, post: 1725698, member: 17524"] I'm the oldest here, at least on this thread. Turned 76 last September. Do I win a prize?🤣 Married young to a young rancher whose folks had a small place in WY. We were in the right place at the right time and were able to lease a ranch in 1965 by running cattle on shares. It was a good place, great irrigated hay meadows, and the years were good. It sold and we left there in 1973 and went to a grass and cake outfit in WY. 72,000 acres. The owner passed away in 1975 so we had to leave. It was either find a place or go to work for someone. We found a small place in SW Montana and left our family and friends and moved there. We were there until 1993 when we moved to SE Montana. Bigger place. We ran Hereford cattle at the first place (WY) because it was a Hereford Ranch. We moved those cows to SW Montana and in 1979 we bought our first Black Angus heifers. Eventually our cattle were all Black Angus. We ran 200 head in SE Montana. I became a Vigortone mineral dealer in 1994 and it was life-changing. So I'm going on 28 years as a dealer. What an education we got; learned so much we didn't know that helped us and helped our neighbors and friends there. We always put up hay except for the 2 years on the grass and cake ranch. The SE MT ranch had some land in CRP, so that helped make the payments. We paid that place off and retired in 2016 and moved back to WY where our family is. I say, after being gone for 40 years that "we came home to die." Good people and good friends in Montana for sure, we had just been gone from our family too long. So we still put up hay on our little place here, but have no cattle or horses; just one cat that is 19 years old. I have to mention, we always had good cowdogs and we appreciated them all. They sure made working cattle easier. [/QUOTE]
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