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Mike Gale faces many challenges as a cattle rancher—climate change, shrinking pastures and increased competition—but after 20 years of selling grass-fed beef directly to customers, he remains committed to his cows.   Braden Cartwright

Mike Gale never planned on being a rancher. From a life as a champion football player at the University of Southern California to volunteering for the Peace Corps in Venezuela and later working as a civil servant in Hawaii, he travelled a long road to his Chileno Valley ranch. Once he arrived, he was quickly humbled by the challenges of raising cattle, but you wouldn’t know it today. 

After 20 years raising grass-fed beef, Mike…