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Final stop….
…on our “magical, mystery Devon tour”: Mike Scannell’s Harrier Fields Farm. He’s pictured with Dee Dee King, a new friend we met along the way. 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. 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. Tragically, most of the embryos were in a canister lost in the fire but Dundee,…
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Third stop….
….on our Devon summer tour: the famed Rotokawa herd in Hardwick, Massachusetts. Few breeders could be under more pressure than Henry Hauptman. For the past few years he has owned the famed Rotokawa…and his first big decision was to withdraw the animals from the marketplace while he worked to restore their luster. We think Henry’s “there”….he thinks it will take at least one more year. There are imitators, but Henry’s are still the original genetics imported by Ridge Shinn, Gearld Fry and Chuck Lacy. And Ken McDowall remains in close contact with Henry on all the breeding decisions. After being transported from New Zealand….and then trucked around the countryside here in…