Montana Cowboy Airlifts Herd to Russia, Hopes Appetite Follows

Darrell Stevenson eats a minimum of eight pounds of beef per week at his family’s cattle ranch in Montana. Feeding that appetite in Russia, which he compares to America’s old West, can be tough.

“The only steaks I’ve had in Russia have actually been imported,” Stevenson, who is transplanting a 1,400-head ranch, complete with horses and cowboys, to the Voronezh region in southern Russia, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. Local cuts, he said, are “maybe a step above shoe-leather.”