The calves know its time to eat, and seem as though they can’t wait for Phoebe Blt
ler to finish pouring the allocations.
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“We sell 20 to 30 head a year
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young cows. We’re satisfied with
that type of program.”
The couple does classify; and a
person who does animal analysis
stop by a couple times a year and
analyze some of the calves through
the AAA program.
“And,” David said, “I fish for
information from any semen jock-
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Phoebe said she has always been
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switched to, after Cuming at his
parents farm for a couple of years,
before buying into Phoebe’s home
farm and going into partnership
with her brother, who sold his
share to them several years ago.
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pens and then there is an area for
springers to ran,” David said.
The two are involved in numer
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but appear to be under control.
And happy.
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