Now That's Branding!

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Sometimes, when you’re searching for branding stories you find the most interesting things. My mom was raised on a cattle ranch in the sandhills of Nebraska, so I came pretty close to living an entirely different kind of “branding” life.

This is a news story about taking a bunch of foreign exchange students to a working cattle ranch and showing them the ropes, so to speak. They branded and castrated calves and learned about an important part of Americana.

Here’s a key quote:

Naoko Okano of Japan ate a Rocky Mountain Oyster, as the cuttings from the males are called when cooked. There was a grill along the back fence at the corral to the northeast of the Dunphy exit off Interstate 80.

“It was good. It’s just meat, you know,” she said.

Elko Daily Free Press