(Joey Schamber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Twenty 800-pound steers were stolen from a farm near Stratford, west of Wausau in central Wisconsin, and the farm is looking for help locating the livestock.
According to Joey Schamber with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the thieves took off with the cattle sometime between 8 p.m. July 7 and the morning of July 8 from the farm on Highway 97 between Highway N and Blueberry Road, according to a Facebook post July 11 by Premier Livestock & Auctions LLC.
Andrew Seubert, patrol captain at the Marathon County Sheriff’s Office, said the case is being treated as a threat and an investigation is ongoing. The stolen herd consists of Holstein and Holstein-Angus cross steers. They have white ear tags with labeled numbers ranging from 100 to 300.
Premier Livestock & Auctions asks people who were traveling on Highway 97 or surrounding roads that night and noticed anything unusual to contact the company or local law enforcement, and to share information with anyone in the cattle industry throughout Wisconsin and neighboring states.
Cattle rustling is a relatively rare occurrence, even in the dairy state, with the last notable case in 2024, when Jackson County authorities recovered $20,000 worth of cattle stolen from a farm in Alma.
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