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Beef Business Booms in Jaffray

South Country food producer grows skilled jobs and local food
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With support from the Trust’s Food Producer Wage Subsidy program, Bolen Livestock has been able to hire and train three local employees in the butcher shop. CBT photo

Submitted by Kathleen Hart, CBT

At dawn’s first light, a rooster crows from high on a fence post at Brodey Bolen’s ranch, announcing the arrival of a new day and awakening the rural community of Jaffray, BC. Cows join in, their mooing reverberating across the calm pastures: a sound Bolen has heard all his life as a third-generation rancher.

“I’ve loved cows for as long as I can remember,” he says.

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Carolyn Grant

About the Author: Carolyn Grant

I have been with the Kimberley Bulletin since 2001 and have enjoyed every moment of it.
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