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Famed Devon breeder a stroke victim….
Gerard (Jerry) Engh of Lakota Ranch has been stricken by a serious stroke. Son Jeremy Engh tells the American Devon Cattle Association (ADCA) that the stroke occurred several weeks ago and Jerry is recuperating at the ranch in Remington. Jeremy says it may take a few months before there is a full recovery. The senior Engh played the key role in keeping the Devon breed going through the dark days of the feed lot craze. There was a time when an Association meeting would draw only a handful of breeders. Today, with the merger of ADCA and its offshoot NADA in the offing, there are several hundred Devon farms in…
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Do we know what we’re doing….
….from our unintended (and intended) consequences file. The mad scientists experimenting with gene modification have come up with the next generation: changing the molecules in wheat to change it’s carbohydrate content. The process is called “silencing” the genes but it apparently not only silences wheat genes but may match human genes and silence them, too. That could be potentially deadly for children and lead to serious illness in some adults. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/04/23/gm-wheat.aspx