America's Heartland - Episode 317 Summary

Episode 317

On this special edition, we spend the day with a North Dakota farm family to discover the rewards and challenges of life in the Heartland. Host Paul Ryan introduces us to Don and Sarah Nordby who...along with their two sons and a daughter...share the realities of rural life from "Dawn to Dusk".
	6:58 AM The work starts early at Seven Hat Ranch near Amidon, North Dakota. Don and Sarah Nordby run the 4000 acre ranch with their three children, Hannah, Ty and Tate. Morning means chores in getting out the horses, feeding stock and getting the youngsters ready for school
	7:46 AM Donald Nordby gets help from his neighbors in rounding up 175 head of cattle from ranges nearby. He’ll bring them in for inoculations and pest management. Sarah, Hannah and Ty put together school lunches and head off to the one room schoolhouse in nearby Amidon. It’s a school with only four students.
	8:38 AM Donald...on horseback...brings in the cattle. Sarah, home from the schoolhouse, gets help from young Tate in cleaning the barn for the cattle operations.
	2:28 PM Donald and Tate head out with the family dog to mend fences on a distant corner of their 4 thousand acre farm. Sarah heads to Amidon to pick up the youngsters from School.
	4:34 PM It’s back to the barn, welcoming 4-H members who are buying lambs for youth projects. Then Donald along with Hannah and Tate visit a neighboring ranch where they will give the cattle hormone implants to get the cattle ready for artificial insemination.
	5:50 PM Sarah and the youngsters head to some high country on Seven Hat Ranch for an impromptu picnic. Tate brings along his violin and gives concert playing, “The Wabash Cannonball.”

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