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“I saw a lot of the industry
due to people being open and
transparent,” Sam explains.
These situations led Sam into
doing many things she never
thought she would do, like
spending spring break in Montana,
feeding cows in 4 feet of snow,
artificially inseminating cows and
even driving in the wrong side
of a car on the wrong side of the
road. Moments like these left her
thinking at times, “How did I even
end up here?” rented acres. They now sell over
700 bulls a year and run one of
the largest embryo transplant
programs in the US.
One family in particular, were
previous Kansas State graduates,
not born into a ranching ‘farming’
property. This family started with
one cow in 1977, and were at one
point selling 300 bulls from 300 It was at this farm, that Sam
was told that the day’s work was
inducting cattle, meaning they
needed to tag, tattoo, tail bleed,
vaccinate and drench each animal,
only to learn that she had done
none of these things before.
“With the combination of my
enthusiasm, their patience and
a lot of laughing, at the end of
the day, I had done it all.”
Sam remembers.
“I was so blessed to meet so many
people like this, who challenged
me more than I had ever been.”