When this Idaho-based rancher family’s six children reach the age of nine, they become bonafide cowboys and girls.
It was their third great-grandfather, Frank Carl Herman Bedke, who started ranching in 1878, and now their father, Ryan Bedke, a fifth-generation rancher, is working hard to carry on the practice the traditional way.
Thirty-nine-year-old Bedke lives with his wife, Jacquie, and six kids in southern Idaho. Bedke owns a herd of 1,500 and over 100,000 acres of ranch and says it’s not easy keeping things going in the current times.
“Input costs are a lot higher, and they continue to get higher with all the inflation that’s happening. Everything’s more expensive,” Bedke told The Epoch Times. “It’s too bad that there’s not more family ranches that are able to make it….