Great pic's Path. I see why you wished you still had it.
It wasn't all rosy - sad thing is, you can't turn a profit on it, too small (quarter section) and we had droughts for a couple of years - not consecutive, though. The creek would dry up too, meaning you had to haul water. However, we did put in a nice garden until the GF let it get away from her and it filled with weeds. The house was poor (a 25-year old single wide trailer), and for storms, the cellar was 100' from the door. Water was crappy for people, so for drinking we had to haul from town - or pay 10 grand for access to the pipeline (the pipeline would have to go under 2 roads and the Burlington tracks).
After I sold the herd pictured, I thought of raising feeder calves, but the prices of cattle at the time had jumped from $700-$1100 for a cow-calf pair, to $1450 for a bred heifer (young female cow that has never had a calf). Now, of course, the prices are in the toilet again, but alas, I sold the land.
On the plus side, wildlife was extensive - muleys and pronghorn, coyotes on occasion, skunks, raccoons, weasels and mink, muskrats, even a fox family on the hills. And pheasants - this area is the heart of the ND pheasant country. No turkeys, though.

And I could literally walk out on the porch and shoot into the hills directly to the south (not pictured) - about a 150' tall natural berm about 200 yards south.