Ed, a daredevil, macho type, has arranged for them to spend two weeks on a real cattle drive out West.

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Authentic ranch is framed by the Snowy Range Mountains, pasturelands with real cattle, and cabins dotting the shore along the Little Laramie River.

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In the 1980s and 1990s he invested with Walter (Jay) Hoyt III, who was convicted in 2001 of defrauding investors with a tax shelter scheme built around phantom cattle and overvalued ranch real estate.

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But even if the VMD grants a licence for BCG to be used in cattle, field trials still need to be held to prove that it works under real farm conditions as well as experimental ones.

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The stronger Brazilian real in relation to the dollar has made Brazilian beef a little less competitive overseas and U.S. cattle country is one of its benefactors of that exchange rate.

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