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Everything is early

September 2, 2010
 I can never remember having the oats combined in August and the straw done the 2nd day of September. Usually we are struggling to get finished by the third week of September. The weather has been fantastic, almost to good as this week has been incredibly hot with humidex's up to 40 C. I know that other parts of the country are knee deep in water but we might be joining them this weekend as Hurricane Earl is on his way.

Congratulation to Nicole Booth and her family on winning Grand Champion Female with Worth-a-Bit Annie K 5U and Grand Champion Male with her son sired by Worth-a-Bit In Focus 12U at St Mary's fair last week! Great to see customers do so well. This heifer was purchased from us at the 2009 Angus in Action sale. This year we will be consigning 4 bred heifers to the sale which will be held Oct. 16 in Nappan, NS.

The Lobster Barn Pub and Eatery is now serving East Coast Angus Beef!! Head out to Victoria to visit the Myers girls for the best burgers on PEI.


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Fall is coming!

August 16, 2010
You know fall is just around the corner when we start to wean calves to get them ready for the fall shows. Five calves made the cut and after a few days to adjust the training will begin.

    Another sign of changing seasons is harvest time. We combined our organic spelt yesterday and are quite happy with the yield. This crop was not underseeded but the clover is unreal! Soybeans are planned to be put in this field so at least it will be a nice plowdown.

    I have had some bad luck with the na...
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July

July 22, 2010
As usual trying to do dry hay here is torture like no other! Very rarely do you seem to get three good days in a row. We have managed to get it down to just 15 acres remaining so all in all not too bad. The summer has been warm and we have had rather cool summers for the last couple of years so we won't complain. The soybeans have really taken off and so has the price. The navy beans are cultivated and are close to filling in the rows.

The show season has started (at least for some people) We ...
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June is a busy month!

June 26, 2010
I have gotten a little behind in my posts this month. Life sometimes gets in the road!

Congratulations to all the exhibitors at the Maritime Angus Field Day in Pictou the weekend of June 10. A record number of exhibitors were in attendance. The future is bright for the Angus breed!

The following week we were pleased to have visitors from Alberta tour our herd before they took in the Canadian Angus Assoc annual meetings in Halifax. Hats off to Betty-Lou Scott for organizing a great conference.

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Rain Rain go away!!

June 6, 2010
You should never complain about the weather. We were actually very dry for the first time in years and now we are getting an inch a day it seems for the last week. Only have a half day of planting left so this is a real nuisance. Spraying and cultivating is at a standstill.

This weekend is the Maritime Angus Field Day and Junior show to be held at the Pictou, NS fairgrounds. There are 30 heifers entered and Kirk Wildman, President of the Canadian Angus Assoc. will be the judge. The following w...
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May stuff

May 23, 2010
 Picked the first asparagus on May 12. This is about a week earlier than normal. Put the cows out on May 18 and this is about a week earlier as well. We could hardly get the trailer door closed as they put their heads down and started eating as soon as they came off.

I used some of my air miles and ordered a kodak pocket video camera. I will practice using it before I post videos of the calves we will have for sale this fall.

I once said that I would never use face book because it was just a p...
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new look!!

May 11, 2010
I just changed the look of the site. I thought the burlap background had more of a "farm" feel. What do you think?

It's been while since I updated as the spring work is in full out mode. The fencing is 3/4 done, wormed the cows today and vaccinating and castrating to be done tomorrow. We like to do this about a week before we put them on grass so we can keep a better eye on them in case of any complications.

Field work is well underway and will start sewing on Thursday. This year we are growing...
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Buy local and CSA's

April 25, 2010
Jen and Derek Campbell have successfully started a CSA. That stands for community supported agriculture. They have allowed us to partner with them to supply beef for this venture this year. To learn more about CSA's click on this link, www.peistuffonline.com/jdcfarm/




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April happenings

April 17, 2010
I took a little road trip earlier this week. I delivered organic spelt and milling wheat to the Speerville Flour Mill just outside of Woodstock, NB. I then attended the Carleton County Steer Show held in Florenceville, N.B. It was a great show with the top 5 steers being top notch. The Parkinson family took both Grand and Reserve on the day.


Speervillle Flour Mill                                           Tracy MacIntosh showing her steer at the Carleton County Steer show.




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Visitors, flu, fats, asparagus, tiles and heroes (???)

April 10, 2010
Monday started off with shipping cattle to Atlantic Beef Products in Albany and the bulls we were boadring for the winter left as well. Thanks to Lindale Angus, Dale and Linda Lackie and Jim MacFarlane for their business. This allowed us to move cattle around in the barn so we could make a pen for our replacement heifers and put a bull in with them to start breeding.

Monday must have been "the official day for visiting the Dixon's" as we had 8 visitors plus the contractor who was putting new w...
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