Lightning I Ranch

Idaho farmer and rancher Tristin Weininger recently told me: “With farming, We are kind of disconnected from the whole quarantine because we're out here working because we have to we don't have a choice. And it wouldn't matter if it was quarantine or not. We would be out planting, branding, doing everything that farmers and ranchers do just to get the job done, because for us, timing is everything and everything has to be done on time and done right. And I think that society has disconnected a lot from where their food comes from.”

Mike Ingersoll, owns Lightning I Ranch, located between Plummer and Saint Maries. “We have 65 cow-calf pairs right now on the ground. And we have four bulls, 13 steers, and 11 replacement heifers.  More and more people are going directly to ranchers for their beef?

That customer has the opportunity to visit the ranch where the animal is raised and see the format in which they finish the animal, and that way they can choose at that time if they want that animal or not, by the way, the rancher takes care of the cattle.”