Every three days, Kathleen Sullivan Kelley hauls water from the town of Meeker to fill a 500-gallon tank at her ranch in Rio Blanco County. Kelley’s horses used to drink from ponds on the property, but there’s no longer any surface water, and she and her husband, Reed, sold the last of the 200 cows […]

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23-year-old auctioneer Jace Thompson from Billings won the 2026 World Livestock Auctioneer Champion, carrying his family's legacy forward as a third-generation practitioner serving rural America.