Central Idaho sheep ranchers persist amid change
On a recent Friday morning in September, rancher John Peavey stood waiting outside Wood River Welding on Main Street in Bellevue. His flock, the 2,800 ewes of the Flat Top Sheep Co., was waiting, too, 10 miles south of town. Peavey's trailer broke an axle hauling the metal piping of a portable corral to meet them for shearing, an annual rite of fall.
