Young Stockgrowers Host Billings Cattle Crawl

Young Stockgrowers Host Billings Cattle Crawl

By Lacey Sutherlin, Young Stockgrowers Chair

The Montana Cattle Crawl was a fantastic event hosted by Young Stockgrowers and the Montana Beef Council. The sponsors of this great event were Bank of the Rockies, Northwest Farm Credit, Yellowstone Cellars & Winery and the Montana Beef Council.

We began the evening at Yellowstone Cellars and Winery with appetizers highlighting beef in four different dishes paired with wine from the Yellowstone Cellars. These delicious treats were prepared by Chef Nick Morrison. Chaley with the Beef Council did an introduction and an update on the Beef Council.

Then we hopped on the bus and headed to The TEN at the newly restored Northern Hotel in downtown Billings. On the bus ride the attendees were equipped with boas, Viking helmets and be dazzled glasses just to make sure the Cattle Crawl did not go unnoticed in downtown Billings! We were greeted there by the owner himself, Mike Nelson along with his Restaurant Manager, Patrick. He gave us a quick presentation on the history of the Northern and the remodeling journey. They served us a tossed salad topped with a specially prepared flank steak, pairing it with a red wine.

Next, we took a walk through the beautiful downtown Billings and made our last stop at the Rex. Chef David and his team, served us a sirloin steak dressed with a mushroom sauce, paired with a red wine. After this we jumped on the bus and headed back to the Winery for dessert!

The dessert of choice that evening was Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream. Most of the Cattle Crawl attendees got to take part in preparing this delicious dessert. It was a mixture of cream, half and half, eggs, sugar and vanilla. Once everything was well mixed the nitrogen was added and we had ice cream!

We completed the evening with a cattle auction fundraiser to go towards sending additional participants to the NCBA’s Young Cattlemen’s Conference. We auctioned off a prize herd consisting of a Texas Long Horn, a Hereford and of course an Angus cow. It was a fun time had by all and an event I would plan on attending in the future! I would like to give one more big THANK YOU to our sponsors: Bank of the Rockies, Northwest Farm Credit, Yellowstone Cellars & Winery and the Montana Beef Council. And a HUGE thank you to everyone that decided to attend the Cattle Crawl and support the Montana Youngstockgrowers.