2025 Summer Tour

Tuesday, July 15

Little Falls, Minnesota

Hosted by the Mississippi Valley Cattlemen's Association & the Minnesota State Cattlemen's Association

Purchase your tickets today!

Early bird pricing ends June 24, so be sure to purchase tickets before then!

Additional Meal Tickets...................$10

Lodging Details

Country Inn & Suites by Radisson 

209 16th Street Northeast  

Little Falls, MN 56345  

To book in the Cattlemen's Summer Tour room block, call the hotel at (320) 632-1000, then refer to booking into a block. Name of the room block: MSCA Summer Tour. Block releases June 13th, so make sure to have your room booked by then!

Other lodging option (no room block):

AmericInn by Wyndham Little Falls

Click here to book a room online.

(320) 632-1964

306 Lemieur Street SE 

Little Falls, MN, 56345

Rice Creek Hunting & Rec

This is where the MSCA Quarterly Meeting and the MSCA PAC Event will be held the night before the tour (Monday, July 14). Limited lodging is available here.

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Call (320) 745-2232 to reserve a room 8 a.m.-4 p.m. T-F, 8 a.m.-noon Saturdays & Sundays.

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Questions? Contact Angie Ford at [email protected] 

2025 Summer Tour Stops

Home Base - Morrison County Fairgrounds

Barrett Petfood - Little Falls location - Develops premium pet food diets from emerging brands to market leaders in the industry. 

*Please note, close toed shoes are required for the Barret Petfood tour.

Kathrein Farms - Half of the cow herd registered charolais, half of the cow herd red stabilizers. Focus on feed efficiency, above average growth and breed leading marbling. Seedstock display as well.

Smude's Angus Farms - 150 cow/calf pairs. Feed out 150 steers. Sell direct USDA packaged to local restaurants and schools and calve out of a large hoop barn. Also run Smude’s Sunflower Oil and Midwest Sales and Construction (Sioux Grain Bins and Livestock Equipment).

Kaiser Farms - 80 cow/calf pairs. Currently finish out a couple hundred head. Late fall of 2024 constructed a 400-head deep pit slat barn. Run a trucking company where they haul livestock, hopper bottoms and some step deck work.

Caughey Cattle Co. - Calve out 160 cows. Finish 300 home raised calves and purchased calves. Sell beef directly to consumers. 

Zapzalka Farms - Converted their dairy barn to start 400 lb holstein steers. Finish 200 head in hoop shed and open lots. Grow and feed all their own corn. Remainder of tillable land is hay and soybeans. 

2024 Summer Tour - NW Minnesota

2024 Summer Tour Stops

Didrikson Farms

Didrikson Farms is a fourth-generation family cattle and grain farm in northwestern Minnesota. Didrikson Farms was founded by Norwegian immigrants and passed down with each generation adding to the ranch and learning to work with nature to produce a quality product and a sustainable enterprise. Didrikson Farms is still owned and managed by the current Didrikson generation – brothers Thor and Dana. 

DigiKey

DigiKey is recognized as a leading global commerce distributor, offering the largest selection of technical components and automation products in stock for immediate shipment. They have been a pioneer in the high-service distribution of electronic components for more than 50 years and continue to innovate to accelerate progress for every designer, buyer and builder.

Waage Farms

Waage Farms is a fourth-generation family farm in northwestern Minnesota. They grain farm corn, wheat, soybeans, and ryegrass. In addition, they have a 2,100 head feedlot with five hoop buildings and are a part of the Zehnder Waage Partnership which has a purebred Charolais herd and an annual bull sale at the end of March. 

Hanson's Dairy

Good-Vue Farms is a fourth-generation Ayrshire and Holstein dairy in eastern Pennington County. The dairy features a free stall facility built in 2016 and uses two Lely Astronaut Robotic Milking Systems for the 145 lactating cows. Unique to the facility is the crane and grabber Vector Robotic Feeding System which was the first one installed in the U.S. The farm uses beef on dairy via AI for approximately 40 percent of the herd. IVF and embryo transfer are used on the high genomic/type cows and heifers for showing, sale, herd replacements, and bull sales to the dairy AI industry. In addition to the dairy, Good-Vue farms 3,000 crop acres. The farm is owned and operated by Mike and Linda Hanson and their three sons, Steven, Matthew and David.

Northland Community and Technical College

Northland is a comprehensive two-year community and technical college located in northwestern Minnesota. Northland provides education that transforms lives and strengthens the communities they serve. Their Ag Food and Natural Resources program run by ADawn Nelson focuses on community engagement and partnerships to train future ag leaders through hands-on, real-world lessons. 

Greenbush Vet Clinic

I came to Greenbush in 1985 after 6 years in Milbank, S.D.  I purchased the practice of Dr. Allen Larson.  In the beginning, this was primarily a dairy practice, with beef work in the fall and spring.  There are now two dairy herds in the practice area.  I still do pregnancy checking of beef herds in the fall.  The spring beef work has changed dramatically.  Whereas in the past, there were a fair number of calving calls in the spring, I now see a small number of calving calls. This is primarily due to the improved breeding practices of the ranchers in this area.  I now do a significant amount of semen testing of bulls every spring.  To augment our seasonal cattle work business, we have expanded the amount of pet work we do in this area.  This expansion with the increased necessity for office space have led us to build a new office area which  should be opening in the spring of 2024.  We'd like to welcome the Cattlemen's tour and we hope you enjoy your tour of northwest Minnesota. (We do indeed have more than rocks and cows up here!)

Eeg Cattle

Eeg Cattle is a family show cattle operation, starting back when the kids were showing in 4-H and on national levels. They raise primarily Simmental and red angus genetics that go on to compete across the country.