Problem solved….

Our friend Tom Neal has considered the problem we’re grappling with—the demand for Thistle Hill Devon beef out-pacing the supply— and he has come up with the answer.  He calls it:

                    Tom’s Jim Dandy Devon Cow Stretcher

and the prototype seems to work pretty well.

We  particularly like that the length added is in the higher-priced loin area.  We’re hoping that, in future upgrades, Tom will be able to custom enlarge the cow to meat customers’ particular desires.

But now we hasten to add that, of course, this is a Photo-shopped picture.  Our fellow Devon breeders take all this pretty seriously, so we want to make it clear this cow is not for sale.

And actually, we haven’t solved the problem at all.  The list we put up to reserve meat from the next animal was fully “subscribed” in just a few hours.