Source: MODERN FARMER, 9/15/17



Jackie Allenbrand first conceived of PHARM Dog USA—the acronym stands for Pets Helping Agriculture in Rural Missouri, though the company isn’t constrained to the state—in 2005, at a farm show. There she met a farmer with a story: “He had a partial leg amputation, and he was telling me about his Border Collie named Weasel,” says Allenbrand. “He said, 'I can send Weasel out to get my cattle and all I have to do is sit at the gate and close it behind me, and that really saves me a lot of time.'” Allenbrand, a cattle farmer in northern Missouri, near the Iowa border, suddenly realized that farm dogs had so …

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