{"id":2343,"date":"2013-06-23T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T14:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2013-06-23T19:35:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T23:35:34","slug":"beef-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/beef-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Beef on the way…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20130623_091222_1\"<\/a>….starts with pulling the steers out of the main herd.\u00a0 They all come into the pen, and it’s up to me(far right) to\u00a0let a bunch out at a time checking tags and undersides.\u00a0 They’re held briefly in that alley until Wooz (far center in white shirt) okays the\u00a0return to the pasture.<\/p>\n

When we get a steer, it’s aimed to another pen where Kurt Volkert (left) is controlling the gate.\u00a0 Afterwards the steers are moved across the road to a large pasture with other cows awaiting shipment to farms that have purchased our seed stock.\u00a0\u00a0Tomorrow the steers will\u00a0be brought in for loading.<\/p>\n

We always try to keep the animals together and on grass until just before harvesting.\u00a0 Our aim is to hold the waiting time from pasture to kill\u00a0to less than an hour.\u00a0 Some of the steers we picked out today will be going to Elim Springs Farm near Petersburg, Virginia and the rest\u00a0will be for our\u00a0meat customers.<\/p>\n

One other note:\u00a0 if you have been a longtime reader of this blog, \u00a0you know that Kurt is an old friend, born in Germany, went to high school in nearby Rappahannock county, joined the Army and eventually became a CBS cameraman, and later a producer and bureau chief in Europe.\u00a0 We met in Viet Nam where I kept my head down while Kurt took the film.\u00a0 CBS correspondents are no fools!<\/p>\n

Kurt’s wife, Gisela, took this picture and others on this blog.\u00a0 She has to put up with us because I gave her the tip that cured her morning sickness 46 years ago.<\/p>\n

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….starts with pulling the steers out of the main herd.\u00a0 They all come into the pen, and it’s up to me(far right) to\u00a0let a bunch out at a time checking tags and undersides.\u00a0 They’re held briefly in that alley until Wooz (far center in white shirt) okays the\u00a0return to the pasture. When we get a steer, it’s aimed to another pen where Kurt Volkert (left) is controlling the gate.\u00a0 Afterwards the steers are moved across the road to a large pasture with other cows awaiting shipment to farms that have purchased our seed stock.\u00a0\u00a0Tomorrow the steers will\u00a0be brought in for loading. We always try to keep the animals together and on grass until just before harvesting.\u00a0 Our aim is to hold the waiting time from pasture to kill\u00a0to less than an hour.\u00a0 Some of the steers we picked out today will be going to Elim Springs Farm near Petersburg, Virginia and the rest\u00a0will be for our\u00a0meat customers. One other note:\u00a0 if you have been a longtime reader of this blog, \u00a0you know that Kurt is an old friend, born in Germany, went to high school in nearby Rappahannock county, joined the Army and eventually became a CBS cameraman, and later a producer and bureau chief in Europe.\u00a0 We met in Viet Nam where I kept my head down while Kurt took the film.\u00a0 CBS correspondents are no fools! Kurt’s wife, Gisela, took this picture and others on this blog.\u00a0 She has to put up with us because I gave her the tip that cured her morning sickness 46 years ago.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}