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Just wanted to give a quick update – lately we’ve been focused on marketing this fall’s farm wares, but we have also been busy on some farm improvements. One that I’ve been working on into the evening for several nights over the past week is winter grazing. This year will mark the first year that [...] First, Ivy is 100% grass fed. Her milk has benefits similar to meat that is grass fed. The milk fat is healthy. Ivy is not fed “preventative” or sub therapeutic antibiotics. We’re changing some of the direction of our herd and I wanted to keep our readers informed. We’ve concluded that our herd bull and first registered Dexter, Shome Breaburn, just doesn’t have he beef genetics that we need. So, although we still love smaller cattle, Braeburn is for sale. We will be keeping some Dexter [...] Two years ago I couldn’t imagine saying the kinds of things that I say all the time now. Things like “The forage was trampled SOO well today.”, “Honey you should see the way the clover is coming back”, “I think (so and so) is in heat”, “(So and so) is bagging up”, and “Moving the [...] If you were to drive by our farm this afternoon, two things might stand out – one would be the fact that our cattle are all packed into a small space on a large pasture, and the other would probably be the “oreo” cattle mixed into the bunch. The reason that you might notice the [...] |
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