Ep. 12: Gateway Simmentals - Jim and Logan Butcher
Jim Butcher is a 3rd Generation rancher who along with two of his sons, Logan and Brock, run Gateway Simmentals in Lewistown, MT. Jim grew up on their ranch in central Montana after his father relocated their ranch there from Winifred, MT. As many ranchers did in those day, they ran Hereford cows, which in the 70’s the began to breed to Simmental bulls and stuck with trough they many different phases of the Simmental breed. Through lots of trials and errors and being all in very early on collecting data, Gateway has become one of a big time operation for Simental genetics. Even developing their own style of Simmental hybrid, the Lucky Cross.
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