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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511527382841340154</id><updated>2024-02-20T10:45:12.896-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thousand Hills Cattle Company</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thousandhillscattle.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2511527382841340154/posts/default?alt=atom'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thousandhillscattle.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Thousand Hills Cattle Company</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13340185020877498375</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511527382841340154.post-9031504699658336126</id><published>2013-10-11T12:54:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2013-10-11T12:54:46.862-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>
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  5. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;Re-tracing the steps on the winding path, through the hills
  6. and vales, leading to the founding of Thousand Hills Cattle Co. by Todd
  7. Churchill.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  9. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 8pt;&quot;&gt;
  10. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;Although Thousand Hills Cattle Co. began in 2003, the ideas,
  11. philosophies, and passions started long before that.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  12. &lt;br /&gt;
  13. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 8pt;&quot;&gt;
  14. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;I grew up on a farm in western Illinois, that transitioned
  15. from a diversified row crop and livestock enterprise (with a dozen annual
  16. crops, large vegetable garden, cattle, hogs, poultry, dairy cattle and beef
  17. cattle) to a corn, soybean, feedlot beef cattle enterprise. Most of our
  18. neighbors’ farms went through the same transition.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  19. &lt;br /&gt;
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  21. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;Only very faintly conscious of this change, I do vividly
  22. remember the summer I was fourteen – our family purchased a small 80 acre farm
  23. from a neighbor. The previous owner was in his eighties, and hadn’t kept up
  24. with the technological progress in farming – he didn’t use chemicals, he still
  25. had hedgerows and fences surrounding his fields, and his yields were much lower
  26. than ours. I watched (and worked) as we bulldozed all the hedge trees and
  27. fences, to make that eighty acres a flat bare rectangle so we could maximize
  28. the yield of corn and soy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  29. &lt;br /&gt;
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  31. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;This was disturbing to me in ways I didn’t really understand
  32. or express. With hindsight I now understand I was sensing the destruction of
  33. bio-diversity and abundance – measured in subtle, almost intangible, ways very
  34. different than simply counting the number of bushels of corn produced. I had
  35. sensed the incredible abundance in a myriad of life forms – soil organisms,
  36. plants, animals – wildlife, on that little oasis in a desert of ever more
  37. sterilized soils – devoid of anything but two plants, corn and soybean
  38. monoculture, year after year.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  39. &lt;br /&gt;
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  41. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;I couldn’t articulate it, but, for me there was no
  42. attraction to our family farm – nothing about it was beautiful, or compelling
  43. as a place to live, to work, to raise a family. So, I left. Like many of my peers,
  44. I left the rural Midwest to attend St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, and
  45. ultimately graduated with a BA in Speech Communication and Accounting. My first
  46. career was in larger CPA firms in Minneapolis, and from there to productive, enjoyable
  47. work as a free-lance CFO for small businesses. Over the next ten years, I
  48. served as a part-time CFO for over 90 companies throughout southern Minnesota.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  51. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;Happy and financially comfortable, I never imagined I would
  52. ever be involved in production agriculture or the food industry, even though
  53. several of my clients were in ag-related businesses. However, I did have a vague
  54. sense everything I had done up to this point was just preparation for the next
  55. chapter, which was about to unfold.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  56. &lt;br /&gt;
  57. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 8pt;&quot;&gt;
  58. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;In 2002, while working as CFO with Mike and Rob Lorentz,
  59. owners of Lorentz Meats in Cannon Falls, MN Mike gave me a story from the &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal;&quot;&gt;New York Times Magazine&lt;/i&gt; called &lt;u&gt;POWER
  60. STEER&lt;/u&gt;. This article would ultimately set the direction for the next ten
  61. years of my life. Michael Pollan, in this soon to be famous article, so good it
  62. was expanded into the industry-changing book &lt;u&gt;The Omnivore’s Dilemma&lt;/u&gt;,
  63. examined the life of a steer in the industrial feedlot production model.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;As I was reading this article, I just knew
  64. that somehow I had found my calling, my passion, my focus for the next chapter
  65. of my life.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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