North Dakota cattle go abroad: Kazakhstan hiring Great Plains ranch hands, sends some of its own for training

BISMARCK — Transplanted North Dakota cattle are thriving in Kazakhstan’s cold climate, but many of the former Soviet republic’s cowboys are still greenhorns, so it has hired Great Plains ranch hands to help out and is sending some of its own to the U.S. for training, a state trade official said.

By: James MacPherson , The Associated Press