Dale Veseth is trying to adapt as best he can to all the changes and pressures impacting cattle ranchers.

That includes using remote-controlled collars to move his cattle up to 170 times a year across his 38,300-acre ranch in southern Phillips County, Montana.

At 63, he's been refining his rotational grazing system for 35 years, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather before him as a legacy Western cattle operation.

He’s also learned to adapt to the changing market for ranch land.

Competing interests now vie to buy ranches and acquire grazing acreage on Montana’s high northern plains, where this landscape was once a place families fled.

It’s now populated with a mix of conservationists and family ranches who largely work toward the same goals of preserving wildlife, o

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