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Richton, Mississippi - Shawn Mercer choose stocker calves over trees when he took over the family farm.  Mercer has a full-time, off-farm job, but he decided at this point in his life, the stockers were a better deal than planting pine trees.
Reporter:  Leighton Spann.

Beef Magazine article on Shawn Mercer