Schooner Creek Cattle Co.: From 'hobby' to business
LINCOLN CITY, Ore. â After several years of raising beef on their âhobby farmâ for their own table and for friends, the Thompson family decided to make their cattle a business. Mick and Norma Thompson and their son, Scott Thompson, made the change two years ago. Now the Schooner Creek Cattle Co. features a herd of 35 mother cows and two bulls. âThe pets are all gone,â Mick said of the 10 or 12 cows that used to graze the pastures along Schooner Creek on property that years ago was a dairy farm. Mick, now 71 and a full-time rancher, had been a timber faller and a gener...
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