Northview Diary

The boss and the kids went shopping yesterday and brought this guy home. He is a milking shorthorn from a nice herd near here. We like s...

Or at least the habit of eating it along with cooking our food helped us grow larger and more complex brains.

With a H/T to Chuck Jolley, who posted the link on Facebook Taste for meat aided human evolution .

I hope that it's shining on you....." Well, actually it's a waxing gibbous and it's raining and it's NY, but I still l...

Was in fact not a tax and was never intended to be one. It was a checkoff program. Checkoffs are producer funded and driven generic adverti...

A mix of red and black Angus too ...but what are they crossed with that gives them those dangly things on their chests? They feed baleage fr...

The kids stumbled upon a large and prosperous looking beef farm a couple of hours from here. Saturday they took me to see. Miles of fences,...

Not Beef Black Duck From Jeffro Jeffro explains all about growing beef from calf to feedlot

HT to Chuck Jolley on Facebook for this story about the meat lab at SUNY Cobleskill . Alan took some classes there, which made our venison p...

If you've been reading here a while you know about Checkerboard Magnum's Promise , a milking shorthorn bull we bought to breed hei...