{"id":3639,"date":"2014-08-07T11:46:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2014-08-07T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:25:36","slug":"final-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/final-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Final stop…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20140719_109\"<\/a>…on our “magical, mystery Devon tour”:\u00a0 Mike Scannell’s Harrier Fields Farm.\u00a0 He’s pictured with Dee Dee King, a new friend we met along the way.\u00a0 Mike probably holds the world’s record for Devon prices…..$36,000 for a cow-calf at the NADA sale a few years back.<\/p>\n

Mike and Joan Harris are still recovering from a devastating fire that destroyed an historic barn on their property a few years back.\u00a0 However, that certainly hasn’t slowed them down.<\/p>\n

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Their new herd bull, Dundee<\/em>, (think Crocodile), is an embryo bull from the Tiranna herd in Australia.\u00a0 Tragically, most of the embryos were in a canister lost in the fire but Dundee, alone,\u00a0will certainly further elevate this already top-drawer herd.\u00a0 Mike has two young, polled bulls coming along as well, \u00a0which also are bound to add to his reputation.<\/p>\n

Harrier Field animals are known for their handling-ease as well, and that’s due to the patient work of Joan.\u00a0 And Joan, herself, is also known as a talented artwork.\u00a0 Her studio was a must-stop for Wooz, who again came away with some Harris artwork which required careful care all the way home.\u00a0 But she says she left a few beautiful paintings of Devon you may wish to check out<\/p>\n

Again, with Mike Scannell, as with Don Minto and John Forelle, we go back to the founding of NADA and long hours devoted to the Board.\u00a0 Those days are over but we’re grateful that all the friendships live on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…on our “magical, mystery Devon tour”:\u00a0 Mike Scannell’s Harrier Fields Farm.\u00a0 He’s pictured with Dee Dee King, a new friend we met along the way.\u00a0 Mike probably holds the world’s record for Devon prices…..$36,000 for a cow-calf at the NADA sale a few years back. Mike and Joan Harris are still recovering from a devastating fire that destroyed an historic barn on their property a few years back.\u00a0 However, that certainly hasn’t slowed them down.       Their new herd bull, Dundee, (think Crocodile), is an embryo bull from the Tiranna herd in Australia.\u00a0 Tragically, most of the embryos were in a canister lost in the fire but Dundee, alone,\u00a0will certainly further elevate this already top-drawer herd.\u00a0 Mike has two young, polled bulls coming along as well, \u00a0which also are bound to add to his reputation. Harrier Field animals are known for their handling-ease as well, and that’s due to the patient work of Joan.\u00a0 And Joan, herself, is also known as a talented artwork.\u00a0 Her studio was a must-stop for Wooz, who again came away with some Harris artwork which required careful care all the way home.\u00a0 But she says she left a few beautiful paintings of Devon you may wish to check out Again, with Mike Scannell, as with Don Minto and John Forelle, we go back to the founding of NADA and long hours devoted to the Board.\u00a0 Those days are over but we’re grateful that all the friendships live on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harrier-fields","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","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=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}