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It'll soon be semen ordering time and this crowd knows Shorthorns pretty well. Scenario: I have a handful of too-big high percentage Maine cows that I'd like to mate for potential replacement females. I've been using smaller framed, easy calving Angus bulls on these but my customers are...

Three Icon calves here. Two heifers and a bull. Two baldies and a black out of solid black cows. Best one is a Maintainer out of an unregistered Daddy's $ cow, but they're all pretty good. BW's were reasonable (80's-low 90's). I'll use him again.

Are these bulls really that old? A big chunk of my cows go back to Stout and Overload. K&A Amtrack was another we used. Big cattle and fertility was a problem with the Amtracks- at least here. Those cow families have weeded themselves out. If I remember correctly, these bulls were among the...

So this brings up a question. At what size of an operation does professional marketing start to pay? We'll never calve more than 20 cows and it'll probably be closer to 15 most of the time. Yes we try to keep the quality as high as we can, but in reality by the time you pull out some...

Herman Purdy was at Penn State from '54 to '72. I can't recall the year Troubadour was shown but can find out next time I'm in the office. I do recall that Henry Gruber took Troubadour on his national train tour following the show. Guess that was sort of a tradition for Chicago Champions in...

That part of Pennsylvania is not highly populated but you'll see some upland farm country around Mansfield and Liberty. Gettysburg and the Amish Country will be several hours away. So if you do those, it would probably be best to plan those stops on the way there or on the way back. The Pine...

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I've seen enough straight Angus calves from him to be impressed. Penn State's set has been uniformly complete, and his dam Libby was evidently something special though I never saw her. I have a couple too-big Maine cows bred to him and will use him on heifers this year. Bob

Here's the page for Mid-State Maines. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mid-State-Maines/367870663280098 Thanks for looking! Bob

I never thought I'd see the day, but so far this Facebook marketing thing is kind of fun. Talk about a brave new world.... Here are couple Mercedes Benz heifers I've had fun working with the last few weeks. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Mid-State-Maines/367870663280098 Thanks to all who...

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Mid-State Tuscarora (AMAA #400034). CMAC Tyson x NBH Polled Energizer. This guy is a super sound, moderate, problem-free bull. Reserve Champion bull at 2010 PA Farm Show as a calf Ten of his first 15 calves were from heifers. All births were unassisted. Calves are very uniform. Located in...

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Here's one out of a Maine/Sim/Angus cow.

The Legend dam (AMAA # 386925) is out of a BK Power Plus cow. Nice udder and milks pretty well. I've heard some negative reports about Legends not milking much, but this one's fine. The cow is probably a low frame 5. This calf looks like he might be a touch bigger framed but not much. He'll tip...

We haven't had a bunch of them here, but CMAC Tyson has been one of the most consistent sires I've used over the years. Here's a February 3/4 Maine calf we'll be showing this fall out of a OCC Legend cow. Wish I had a better profile picture, but haven't been able to get my finger on the trigger...

There certainly seems to be two schools of thought on the attractiveness of this critter  :) Cruiser, the other heifer is a 3/4 Maine Hard Core daughter. Bob

Thanks for all the comments! I just shake my head and grin every time I look at that thing. She really sticks out in a herd of black and baldy cows. The calf is actually a Wernacre's Off Road x 1/2 Maine x SimAngus. My daughter will show her as a 1/4 Maintainer. Out of the cow that producer this...

Were aiming for a blue roan - and got one.  ::) Can we send her back for a new paint job?