It's been a hard winter...and for some an even harder spring. But while the media attention has focused on the drama of flooding in the Red River Valley...ranchers in the Dakotas are also counting the cost. Hundreds of thousands of head of livestock perished with the cold and blizzards and now many farmers are faced with a late start in the fields Minnesota Public Radio's Cara Hetland reports: It's estimated as many as 400-thousand cattle and calves died in North and South Dakota this winter. Of that - 77-thousand died during the early April blizzard. Another ten-thousand cattle, sheep and hogs died in Minnesota from winter storms. It's difficult for ranchers to put a price tag on their losses but many estimate a thousand dollars per lost adult cow and five-hundred