A blogger discusses the math and logistics of ranching.

Questioning Cattle Deaths in South Dakota | Pretty Work: And you have to understand that moving them would have taken time. For instance, on our ranch it takes about 3 days to gather the cattle up from our summer pastures and to get them to the trail leading down to winter ground and then, in good weather, about 2 days to trail them down. So it takes roughly a week to move cattle from summer ground to winter ground. This isn’t something that you just run out and do in a few hours right before a storm. You need a significant amount of lead time. This storm was not forecast to be this severe a week out.