With every step through the green pastures, Lexi Koelling talks cattle. “She was my show heifer,” she says, motioning toward the Black Angus cow by the hay ring.
Then she rattles off statistics about pedigree and progeny. Koelling knows this cow, and she knows her. In a wide-open field, the former show heifer, now a proud momma cow, extends her nose to greet her caretaker.
Koelling has spent much of her 18 years surrounded by cows. “My mom says when I was little, I would always try to do big things like blow out the big cows,” she says. “Cattle is something I’ve…
