Beef Month: Let’s head to PVF Angus in Illinois to see what their operation is all about

Cattle farming does not come with days off!

We are celebrating National Beef Month with the Illinois Farm Bureau. They introduce us to a farm family as they take us behind the scenes of their working cattle farm, where chores do not wait and the livestock come first, rain or shine.

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