Working Ranch Magazine March/April 2025

Feeding cows, fixing trucks, lambing, and praying for good news.

e are Darrell and Angie Holden, and we live and ranch in Vernon, Utah. We are a cow/calf oper

BY DARRELL HOLDEN

ation and we also sell finished beef direct to customers. We raise stock show lambs and fat lambs for freezers too. Both Angie and I work day jobs as well. She is an administrative assistant at Tintic School District and I am a high-voltage power lineman for the Air Force. We are generation number five out here in the desert, our kids are the sixth generation. My cousin and her husband run the cow herd that came from my grandparents. We help ‘em as often as we can and run heifers together on

occasion. We added some sheep to the land when my daughter started raising her own lambs in 4-H. Now we sell lambs to kids for stock shows as well. We have five head of horses too. We ranch on the high desert of Utah and drought is just a way of life. But we’re too stub born to quit. I serve on the Utah Cattlemen’s Association board as a Second Vice President. I enjoy

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