(In case you missed it, check out the first part of this series about my introduction to feedlots as a kid to learn where my interest for feeding cattle began.)
During the next few years, my interest in the cattle business grew even stronger. I focused on college courses in nutrition and managing feedlot cattle. The semester of graduation, I secured a job with JBS Fiver Rivers Cattle Feeding. I would be working in their feedlot in Dalhart, Texas with 60,000 head of cattle. That is like have 60,000 kids to feed and look after each day.
I was hired on as a management trainee, working in the cattle department. During my time there, I was charged with managing the receiving and shipping operations of the feedlot. I looked over the care of cattle as they walked off the truck, arrived in the pens, went through the processing barn to…
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