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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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How now, indeed. Ranchers are feeling the effects of the closures and reduced capacity of meatpacking plants. The bottleneck occurring is forcing feedlots and ranchers to hold on to cattle at a time when they need to sell, before the cattle weigh more than the maximum allowed at a processing plant or when ranchers need to sell to feedlots. Prices for producers have nosedived in recent months, while at the same time, grocery stores and consumers are seeing a shortage in available meat and...
CEO of First Community Bank in Glasgow Sam Waters wanted to find a way to give back to the community. As a bank in northeast Montana there were a number of opportunities for them to do just that, but Waters was looking for something different. Waters decided to reach out to the Glasgow Stockyards, the Valley County Food Bank, purchase a bull at auction, pay Treasure Trail Meats to butcher and process it and then donate the nearly 1,000 lbs of hamburger to the local food bank. According to FCB's...
Floyd "Sonny" Nelson, Jr., a lifelong rancher from the Tampico/Glasgow, Mont., area, died of natural causes at his home the evening of Saturday, April 25, 2020, surrounded by his family. He was 85 years old. Bell Mortuary of Glasgow is in charge of arrangements; with memorials, funeral services and burial dates to be determined. Sonny was born on the Stensland homestead west of Glasgow on Jan. 27, 1935, as the first of three children to Bertha (Stensland) and Floyd Nelson. He attended grade scho...
Future Farmers of America students from across northeastern Montana gathered in Hinsdale Oct. 1 for the Big Muddy FFA District Livestock & Agronomy Career Development event. Varsity and JV students competed individually and collectively in agronomy and livestock. FFA organizations from Lambert, Richey, Bainville, Culbertson, Plentywood, Opheim and Hinsdale competed in the event. FFA members can join as early as seventh grade and middle school students make up most of the JV teams, while varsity...
The 2018 Ranch Rodeo was held at the Valley County Fairgrounds July 28. Six teams competed in six events, and Team Buck Naked (Chante Weeding, Trevor Saylor, Walter Phipps, Courtney Phipps and Tucker Harmon) emerged as the overall winner by the end of the evening, followed by Wittkopp Angus (Curt Wittkopp, Clay Nagel, Flint Hance, John Hubing and Stacy Harris) in second place. Also competing for the cash prizes were Glasgow Stockyards, Inc. (Dakota Gaustad, Sterling Brown, Josh Halko, Chance...
The annual Valley County 4-H & FFA Livestock Sale will be taking place on Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at the Northeast Montana Fair Grounds. A pre-sale viewing will start at 3:30 p.m., with the sale beginning at 4 p.m. At present count, this year will see 27 market beef, 16 market lambs, 8 poultry, and 47 market swine up for auction. This year's auctioneers will be Ed Hinton, Myron Malnaa, and Virgil Nelson. Beef superintendents will be Justin Fuhrmann and Jeremy Tihista. Superintendents for sheep...
Mary Lou (Molvig) Eide, age 91, of Glasgow, Mont., passed away Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in Glasgow. A Celebration of Life for Mary Lou will be held on Wednesday, June 27, at 10:30 a.m., at Bell Mortuary in Glasgow with Pastor Bonnie Novak officiating. Burial will follow at the Highland Cemetery. A luncheon will be held following burial at the Cottonwood Inn. She was born Mary Lois Nell Molvig to Susan Walde Molvig and Ole Christopher Molvig. Mary Lou was raised in the Tampico area where she attend...
Aldon Charles Bergtoll, 86, passed away peacefully on Monday, July 31, 2017, at the River Stone Hospice House in Billings, Mont., from complications of a massive stroke. A brief graveside service will be held Wednesday, Aug. 16, at 2 p.m., followed by a luncheon at the Senior Citizens in Glasgow. He was the the oldest son of Chas and Anna Bergtoll. He was a long-time resident of Opheim and Glasgow. He was a farmer and rancher. In his later years, he loved going to auctions and was a regular at...
Linda Lou (Mullen) Olson was born in Glasgow on April 12, 1947, as the youngest of four children born to James and Olive (Hopstad) Mullen. They lived on the family farm until 1956, when they moved into Glasgow. In her younger years, if you saw Linda, you also saw Susie and Maryann at her side, causing trouble. They were cousins first and sisters second. She met and married Darrel Synan in Glasgow. Through this marriage they were blessed with three children, Terry, Wayne and Charlene. After 17...
Donald Ray Watson Donald Ray Watson, 79, went to meet the Range Boss on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. He passed peacefully at home. He was born on April 6, 1937, in Malta, Mont., to Ray and Laura Watson. He grew up on the family ranch in the Content Community, attending the Tallow Creek School. He left school early for the cow camps, taking riding jobs for the various neighboring ranches and working for Glasgow Stockyards. He enjoyed playing music with his brothers for country dances and events throughout his younger years. He was a skilled...
Some young men’s thoughts turn to love in the spring, but for Otto Kienitz, during this period of his life, his thoughts centered on the “Land of Opportunity,” which was the vast prairie land of Montana. It was none too soon, as three years before, this territory was thrown open to homesteading and the days of the one-open range were quickly drawing to a close. Anyway you look at it, this planned adventure, from Minnesota to Montana, took the courage of rugged individuals. The succeeding years proved this definitely was the “survival of the...
Mary Abrahmson, stock hand at the Glasgow Stockyards and resident of Wolf Point, set out this past weekend on an old fashioned wagon train. Abrahamson accompanied by friends Hannah Ferguson and Troy Melum met up with Bridger native Duncan Vezain in Bridger, MT to set off on the trail over the Prior Mountains through the "prior gap" and down into the town of Prior, MT. The total expedition aincluded 40 to 45 other riders and 5 covered wagons. "There were people from all over the world. Some from...
Agriculture isn't all about crops and livestock, it's also about the people who choose to pursue it as a career. Working at the Glasgow Stockyards is tough, and their established, experienced staff work all year long, in and out of all kinds of weather. To find out more about the people working at one of Glasgow's linchpin businesses, the Courier talked to some of their yard hands to get a better feel for their day-to-day lives. We caught up with Mary Abrahamson at Doc Z in Wolf Point on March...
Jim Uphaus, left, and Bob Walden, right, along with man's best friend, lead 110 head of Uphaus' cattle to the Glasgow Stockyards Tuesday morning. Keeping an eye on things from behind were (L-R) Josey Uphaus, Cal Shipp, and Bill Murch. After growing up and working cattle on his folks' ranch, Uphaus has been running his own herd for approximately 30 years....
June Corrine (Leach) Ziemke Farr will be interred at the Greybull Cemetery in Greybull, Wyo., at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at a family service. Anyone who knew her is welcome to share memories, food and fellowship at a luncheon following at the Greybull Elk's Club. She was born in Tracy, Minn., June 28, 1918, to Winnie (Olsen) Leach and John Beatty Leach. Her parents later divorced and her mother remarried Ernest Ziemke, a farmer, who June always considered her father. After this second...
Several head nods and greetings could be seen at the Glasgow Stockyards on Thursday as the first bull sale of the season took place. It was packed enough to leave interested parties standing wherever they could fit. It seems that the interest in what bulls might go for may have brought several spectators to the Wittkopp Angus bull sale. Reports coming in from analysts say this would be the year for the bull. The cow industry will see another year of high numbers with the worldwide herd down and...
Movie stars, drug deals and Santa. As I get ready to look through all the top stories in the last year at the Glasgow Courier, I can’t help but think what an interesting year it’s been. I moved to Glasgow and officially spent a year working here at the Courier in November. I didn’t know exactly what to expect when I arrived here, but I have found that there’s rarely a dull day. Some of the people I’ve met and the things I’ve been privileged to write about in Valley County I think are incredibly notable. Several businesses and residents w...
The bull sales have seen record prices at the Glasgow Stockyards. Beef prices are soaring and right now it's good to be in the cattle business. In the month of April, at the Big Dry Angus Ranch bull sale, the McRaes of Jordan, sold a bull at possibly one of the highest prices ever seen locally. The top bull brought in $16,000. The top 10 bulls averaged at $9,825. The average for heifers was $1,410. The top seller at the sale that took place on Thursday, April 17, went to Spring Cove Ranch, of...
John and Mary Fahlgren held their sale of Black Angus bulls at the Glasgow Stockyards on May 9. Fahlgren Angus has been using AI since 1995. The six AI sires used were chosen to meet long term goals of maternal traits, calving ease and growth. Ed Hinton called the auction of 18 bulls, which brought an average price of $3,189. The top five averaged $4,650. The top selling bull was Lot 479, sired by Rito 6EM3. This bull sold to FL Robinson, LLC of Malta for $5,000. Lot 479 had a birthweight of 68...
The Nelson family, Floyd and Deanna Nelson and Don and Sheila Nelson, held their annual bull production sale on May 2 at the Glasgow Stockyards with Ed Hinton as auctioneer. Their bulls are black and red Simmental/Angus composites. The 71 bulls averaged $2,615. The top 10 sold for an average of $3,650. The six top bulls all sold for $3,750. Four of them were red, three sired by the Red Angus bull Code Red. Travis Nelson of Richland took home three of these top bulls. Lot 62, a half...
Lee Humbert celebrated 25 years of bull sales at the Glasgow Stockyards on the 25th day of April. With auctioneer Roger Jacobs at the microphone, Humbert sold 44 Angus bulls from his Scobey area ranch for an average price of $4,119. The top 10 averaged $5,350. The high-selling bull this year was Lot 24. HAR Program 2829 is the son of HA Program 7337 out of a New Design/Rito dam. This bull sold to Larry Roberton of Opheim for $6,250. His EPDs were birthweight -2.8, weaning +51, milk +27 and...
