Hayley discusses how she explained to an animal activist 4-H.  Why allow children to raise, care and get emotional when the animal leaves for market.  Her answer may surprise you and teach a life lesson.

Teaching the family and seeing whats involved in the cattle process.

Romey’s explains his hand trick to cooking a perfect steak without a thermometer.

Hayley talks about the Ranch Round Up.  Cooking and feeding the ranch hands including branding of the cattle.

The challenges:  rotational grazing, rainfall and the reintroduction of the wolf population puts a serious strain on cattle losses.  How compensation for a wolf kill isn’t nearly enough for the actual cost of raising the cattle.

Hayley explains the pure joy they get out of ranching.  The family participates in ‘All Around Cowgirl’.

The concerns about the future of rural farming especially in Apache County.