Ritzville rancher delivers beef to doorstep

Katie Teachout, The Journal | Last updated Aug 13, 2020 5:27pm0

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Peyton Curtis, a 2018 Lind-Ritzville graduate and fourth generation rancher, has started a boxed beef business called The Herd.

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RITZVILLE – A local rancher found a silver lining around clouds of COVID-19 restrictions, and is spinning it into gold.

Peyton Curtis, 20, was studying animal science on a pre-veterinary track at Cal Poly in San Louis Obispo when the campus sent everyone home in mid-March.

"I remember sitting in biology class with my roommate, and we were saying, 'There's no way they're going to send us home. This isn't going to get bad,'" recalled Curtis Wednesday, Aug. 5. "And then, within 24 hours, they said, 'Everyone pack up and go home.' I left at three in the morning, did the 17-hour drive, and made it...