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Reluctant ranchers: Tax benefits keep landowners herding cattle, haying


Editor s Note
This is the first in a two-part series examining how Wyoming tax code motivates land owners to raise livestock or grow hay to escape skyrocketing property tax bills in Teton County. —Eds.
Upon hearing Laura Meadows utter their names, Norman and Handy pushed off toward the Linn family’s small pasture pulling a sleigh full of hay.
The two stout, blond Haflinger horses knew the drill, easily jerking forward hundreds of pounds of cured grass cut off the Serenity Ranch last summer. The hay was bound for the rumens of nine Salers cattle and a handful of rescue donkeys and llamas that hang with the herd. On this Wednesday in late January, Norman and Handy were cooperative and obedient as they went about their afternoon routine. That’s not always the case. ....

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