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When Jeff Emerson started buying cattle in the early 1990's he was paying as much as $5,000 dollars a head when other farmers were only spending a few hundred dollars. That's because Emerson was buying a rare breed of Italian cattle called Piedmontese because, according to Emerson, the meat tastes better. That extra expense has cost him in recent years when some of Emerson's neighbors allegedly rustled, or stole, $100,000 worth of cattle off his farm, hurting his meat business for years to come.
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