Happy November! At least as happy as one can be in a generally dark and brown month around here. You know, I’ve lived in Vermont for roughly 39 of my 51 years on this earth and though I am fully smitten by our little state, this region generally, and its many seasonal rhythms, there will…
The past year has been challenging at times here at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm. Though having come through it all, we are grateful to find ourselves changed for the better and now dealing from a position of strength and clarity. Last fall, after several months of running the farm shorthanded, we concluded the search for our new…
We are thrilled to announce that Cas-Cad-Nac Farm LLC was just named the 2022 Futurity Huacaya Large Breeder of the Year! In addition to that accolade for our breeding program overall, CCNF Bataclan (CCNF Daliance x CCNF Elixir) won the 2022 Futurity Light Herdsire of the Year and Irish Meadow’s Elite Max (Ivy’s Honeysuckle x…
That was fun. Well, parts of it anyways. Look, we make no bones about the fact that we were intent on returning to the Futurity Show in Kansas City, MO, for the first time since 2019 (aka, the before Covid times), specifically to pursue the Large Breeder of the Year honors, as we have done…
The global Covid pandemic that first roared to life in the winter of 2020, canceling that year’s Futurity in Kansas City, kept us from running out a show team that, at that time, we considered far and away the deepest our breeding program had ever produced. It would have been a combination of 2018-born animals…
Those of you that have followed us for some time now will know that we have always preached quality and consistency as the hallmarks of our breeding program. The ability to create consistent results and finishes in both the halter show ring (insert your own pandemic-related gag here, as we haven’t walked in circles at…
