Steve Teichert comes from a four-generation ranching family. He now lives at Mackay, Idaho, where he raises efficient cattle he calls Blackfords — half Angus, half Hereford. “I grew up in ...

He manages 600 EU-accredited self-replacing cattle, with an even split between the two breeds. They were purely spring-calving, with Angus cows mated to Hereford bulls and black baldy cows mated ...