Mike Filbin, standing, keeps watch at the gate to a pen where calves await their turn in the arena for branding, tagging and inoculations while J.L. Schaffner prepares to rope the front legs of the next calf in line for services in order to render it immobile. About 80 calves from Filbin’s 450-head herd were taken care of April 10 due to the efficiency of friends and family gathered at the Tygh Ridge arena, who were treated to a barbecue afterwards. On Saturday, April 30, ranchers from the Lane County Livestock Association are visiting Wasco County to learn more about the “urban/rural divide” that exists in Oregon. The group will visit with Mike and his wife, Kitty, at their Dufur Gap Road ranch and then tour the Maupin ranch of Randy and Jeanne Warnock and the holdings of Ed and July Hagen at Criterion Pass near Shaniko. “We have a lot more problems with regulations out here than they do in the Willamette Valley,” said Filbin. “So, I think it will be good to show these folks what is going on out here and how tough it is to find grazing land and run cattle. I think it is a good thing they want to understand what we’re going through and, maybe if we stand united, we can get some things changed.”
Mike Filbin, standing, keeps watch at the gate to a pen where calves await their turn in the arena for branding, tagging and inoculations while J.L. Schaffner prepares to rope the front legs of the next calf in line for services in order to render it immobile. About 80 calves from Filbin’s 450-head herd were taken care of April 10 due to the efficiency of friends and family gathered at the Tygh Ridge arena, who were treated to a barbecue afterwards. On Saturday, April 30, ranchers from the Lane County Livestock Association are visiting Wasco County to learn more about the “urban/rural divide” that exists in Oregon. The group will visit with Mike and his wife, Kitty, at their Dufur Gap Road ranch and then tour the Maupin ranch of Randy and Jeanne Warnock and the holdings of Ed and July Hagen at Criterion Pass near Shaniko. “We have a lot more problems with regulations out here than they do in the Willamette Valley,” said Filbin. “So, I think it will be good to show these folks what is going on out here and how tough it is to find grazing land and run cattle. I think it is a good thing they want to understand what we’re going through and, maybe if we stand united, we can get some things changed.”
Mike Filbin, standing, keeps watch at the gate to a pen where calves await their turn in the arena for branding, tagging and inoculations while J.L. Schaffner prepares to rope the front legs of the next calf in line for services in order to render it immobile. About 80 calves from Filbin’s 450-head herd were taken care of April 10 due to the efficiency of friends and family gathered at the Tygh Ridge arena, who were treated to a barbecue afterwards. On Saturday, April 30, ranchers from the Lane County Livestock Association are visiting Wasco County to learn more about the “urban/rural divide” that exists in Oregon. The group will visit with Mike and his wife, Kitty, at their Dufur Gap Road ranch and then tour the Maupin ranch of Randy and Jeanne Warnock and the holdings of Ed and July Hagen at Criterion Pass near Shaniko. “We have a lot more problems with regulations out here than they do in the Willamette Valley,” said Filbin. “So, I think it will be good to show these folks what is going on out here and how tough it is to find grazing land and run cattle. I think it is a good thing they want to understand what we’re going through and, maybe if we stand united, we can get some things changed.”
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