• A piece of cake….

    ….the folks at North American Breeders wondered if this young English Devon bull had the experience to mount a bigger steer in the middle of a barn…no restraints for either.  They needn’t have worried. Traditional Devon’s™ Highwayman acted like he could do it all day….but it only took several times to gather enough semen.  And a billion per whatever and almost no malformed semen!  It’s what grass fed bulls can produce.  Corn fed bulls can’t match that performance. Highwayman is headed for South Carolina and our partners, the Walkers, after breeding several test cows here at Thistle Hill.  Their calves are due in a few more months.  We want to…

  • As we were saying….

    ….we’ve been warning that you’re making a mistake if you buy pork or chicken these days at a restaurant or supermarket.  Most likely it was “Made in China”…although it’s not required to carry a label. The Chinese simply don’t have the same health standards as our own (a pretty low bar) and Big Ag and our government care more about protecting Chinese imports than your well-being.  Here’s only the latest story: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-24/china-meat-scare-adds-foreign-suppliers-to-food-worries.html