Platte Livestock Market HELPS COMMUNITY DURING TRYING TIMES
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BY MACKENZIE JOHNSTON
he spread of Covid-19 has caused profound hardships on our rural communities.
Platte Livestock Market owners, Mary and Marshall Ringling and Scott and Chantelle Kirsch recently got together and decided it was time to help their community. Both families have growing kids to feed and realize the importance of
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nutritious meals. With that in mind, they decided to sell ground beef at cost from the purchase of cull cows at the livestock market. “Scott and I were talking about the toll COVID-19 has taken on our local communities and ag producers. We have never been big believers of handouts, so we decided selling ground beef at cost would be
