Fair season is here for most of us in Indiana. This year we have calves in Carroll, White, and Greene county. It has been a success so far with a Champion banner at Carroll county and a reserve champion banner at Greene county with White county left to show tomorrow. The kids really have the calves tuned in and looking the part. It's a great sight to see all the hard work paying off for them.
With fair week, comes rain and it couldn't have come at a better time. The pastures were torched, the corn was dead, and the beans were heading in that direction as well. Since fair weeks have started two weeks ago we have received a much needed 3.5" at the home farm with it all coming in a nice 1"-1.5" rains. It has really perked up the beans, the hay ground, and the cows can actually graze for the first time since April! We are praying that the rains keep coming to stretch our hay crop and salvage the pastures so we won't have to liquidate as many.
After county fair we have a couple weeks to regroup and then its State Fair time. This year we are taking our herd bull, AA HRD Chuckwagon 0138, back to the State Fair. You are definately going to want to check him out if you will be at the state fair this year. We pulled him from the pasture right after Junior Nationals and have been amazed at his fleshing ability. He was with cows from April 29- the middle of July and I think he gained weight even without pasture available! We are extremely excited for the show season to see what he will do. We will have semen available for pickup at the State Fair on Chuckwagon, so give me a call or shoot me an e-mail and we can get you hooked up!
I hope everyone is having a great summer and wish everyone an amazing fair season!
Alex
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