This fresh 4-year-old Flashback daughter exemplifies how our dual-purpose cows put on flesh when dry and milk it off to provide plenty of milk for the calf and for the farmer. Updated 12/1/2022 Breed history “The Breed That Fills Every Need” was the tagline for...
By Kenneth and Winifred Hoffman Bestyet James was our first homebred Bestyet A.I. sire 35 years ago who started us on the path of providing a wide range of quality genetics from this rare breed that has been otherwise bypassed by the commercial dairy...
Mericrest Kewpie, five years old in this photo, is one of many excellent Peerless daughters. She is the dam of Mericrest Picasso and full sister to Meriville Outstanding-P’s sire. By Kenneth Hoffman This history of one of our most influential bulls is told in...
About forty years ago, the Dutch Belted breed was perilously close to extinction. This was when my father, Kenneth Hoffman, discovered Dorothy O’Neill Hornback and her herd of purebred Dutch Belts that he ascertained were the oldest continuously registered purebred...
Update: Finocchio semen is sold out, but we have semen available from his son Cantagree Duca Daosta N P as well as Cantagree Felipe N P, a promising young bull from Finocchio’s excellent cow family. The information in this 2019 post will still be useful for...
