South Dakota cattle producer Todd Wilkinson says rainfall earlier this year changed the direction for his operation.

“If you would have talked to me in April of this year, I wasn’t sure where my cows were going to go because our pastures weren’t growing and it simply wasn’t coming on,” he said. “Now, things are looking pretty good in our area that way.”

He tells Brownfield the outlook for many in the cattle industry has changed significantly.

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