CLICK HERE FOR STORY….As Far as I am Concerned, Minnesota Cattlemen can take a Hike! Right Back to wherever they came from…. Europe….
MENAHGA, Minn. — Ross Genoch walks through his small cattle herd on a cold, clear January morning. The cows, docile and trusting, approach him expectantly.
“They’re hoping for a corn cob. Well, they get treated like pets,” he says with a smile.
Genoch (pronounced guh no) raises corn and soybeans, sells crop seed, drives a school bus and runs a small custom woodworking business. But cattle provide his greatest joy — “I’d be lost without them,” he says — and his mission is keeping them healthy and safe.
That’s harder than it once was. When Genoch was growing up on this third-generation family farm along the Red Eye River on the edge of Minnesota lake country, the cattle were free from wolves. Since the late 1990s, however, his cattle have been threatened by the state’s growing wolf population. Genoch has lost a half-dozen animals to wolves, and worries about losing more.
He sees wolf tracks around his farmstead and hears wolves howling at night.
“It’s an eerie sound. It makes you shiver,” he says.
via Minnesota cattlemen angered by court ruling restoring wolf protection – TwinCities.com.
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I stand for wolves!!!