Friday afternoon, I was sitting at my desk, working on calendar artwork for the ND Farm Bureau, when I noticed huge, chunky snowflakes falling out my window. Snow! It's always a bit magical. And in my opinion, if it's going to be below 32 degrees, it better be snowing! :)And this was good timing! We needed a few "snowy cow" photos for the Farm Bureau calendar, so I called up Whitney Vogel and headed out to her place Saturday morning to grab these shots...

Factory farm.

I hate that term. So you can imagine how startled I was when I stepped foot into Cactus Feeders, a business that feeds 500,000 cattle at a time, and heard someone say, “We’re proud to be factory farmers.”

Gulp.

And the tour began: