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Adding Value All the Way Around
by Miranda Reiman
The first time Brandon Peterson heard “value-added” applied to agriculture he was just starting his college career at South Dakota State University (SDSU). It was the fall of 1995 and he decided an Angus seedstock operation was one way to do just that on his family farm near Alcester, S.D.
Today he and his dad, Mike, manage registered and commercial Angus cows in addition to a small feedlot and alfalfa enterprise. On paper, the registered herd is Brandon’s and the rest belongs to Mike, but they share the workload and divvy up tasks based on their respective areas of expertise. They weaned around 250 purebred calves this fall. ...
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