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New ranch group forms
By Gazette News Services
Billings Gazette
March 22, 2007
CASPER - A group of ranchers is creating a new organization of cattle producers in Wyoming.
The Independent Cattlemen of Wyoming, or ICOW, met Tuesday and appointed an 11-member steering committee to form the organization, according to organizer Judy McCullough, who runs a ranching operation at Moorcroft in northeast Wyoming.
McCullough said ICOW would be a state affiliate of the Montana-based R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America, which takes on national ranching issues such as mad cow disease and trade issues.
But ICOW would focus more on Wyoming issues, including land and water issues, she said. "Whatever affects the ranching industry we'll probably be involved in," she said.
McCullough said ICOW is temporarily based out of her ranch home.
McCullough said she and other ranchers had been talking for several years about creating the group.
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By Gazette News Services
Billings Gazette
March 22, 2007
CASPER - A group of ranchers is creating a new organization of cattle producers in Wyoming.
The Independent Cattlemen of Wyoming, or ICOW, met Tuesday and appointed an 11-member steering committee to form the organization, according to organizer Judy McCullough, who runs a ranching operation at Moorcroft in northeast Wyoming.
McCullough said ICOW would be a state affiliate of the Montana-based R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America, which takes on national ranching issues such as mad cow disease and trade issues.
But ICOW would focus more on Wyoming issues, including land and water issues, she said. "Whatever affects the ranching industry we'll probably be involved in," she said.
McCullough said ICOW is temporarily based out of her ranch home.
McCullough said she and other ranchers had been talking for several years about creating the group.
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