We arrived home at midday today to find that all was more or less calm on the farm. This after being away at the Priority sale in Las Vegas since Wednesday of last week. I’m now sitting here contemplating the weekend that just was while the snow quietly falls outside (they’re saying we could get…
Though we always miss the mountains of Vermont when we’re on the road, I can’t say that we’re missing the cold back home one iota! We heard that the temperatures topped off at -13 yesterday at CCNF, so even though it was only in the 50s when we landed here, it felt downright balmy by…
It’s that time again, when we look back at the previous year’s show winnings and howl at the moon for just a moment or two. 2012 marked Cas-Cad-Nac Farm’s 15th anniversary and as one might reasonably expect of a program that has been around that long, our winnings reflect the cumulative effect of careful and…
Why we waited to do the 3rd round of weaning for the 2012 birth class until the coldest day yet in January was perhaps lost on all of us but oh, well. There were some monsters in this group too, with several of them near or over the 100 lb. mark. Of all the criticisms…
I’ll admit that writing this post is very bittersweet for me. On the one hand it’s not every day that one gets the opportunity to essentially cherry pick animals from one of the best and most respected breeding programs in the country. On the other hand, we are seeing — and through our actions aiding…
Mud season has temporarily arrived about 10 weeks early this year. Last week I literally shoveled soggy hard pack out of our garage because our snow tires were creating virtual speed bumps as the mud sloughed off whenever we parked the cars. Even by typical January thaw standards this feels rather prolonged. I have to…
