MADISON — As the sun begins to set on an August evening, Emma Mason strides onto a glowing pasture on her family’s farm near Mineral Point, Wisconsin, and shouts to her three younger siblings, “Who’s bangin’ buckets tonight?”
Ben, 14, jumps off his four-wheeler, grabs two five-gallon pails, and starts bashing them together.
“That’s the dinner bell for cows,” Mason says. Dozens of black Angus pureb...
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