Activities will include wagon rides to the Plummer family's neighboring dairy farm, ice cream-eating contests, face-painting and an ice cream-scooping contest. It will be a small operation as milk plants go with about two dozen milking cows, but Plummer's goal is to get fresh milk to consumers within 24 hours of it coming from the cow. The shop, located about five miles west of downtown Traverse City, quickly became a gathering spot as its reputation for high-quality homemade ice cream...

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There are homes, but they are tucked away following a plan that works at preserving the integrity of this three thousand acre ranch. RM: You buy a hundred acres, but the building envelop is anywhere from a half acre to three acres, then we fence it in and you maintain inside the fence and we manage the rest. We sit in the reception area in oversized leather sofas facing a thirty-foot tall hand-laid stone fireplace emblazoned with the Maytag branding iron logo. It s a long story, but they...

For the most part, feeder cattle prices have held up pretty well given the decline in beef and fed cattle prices. Cash fed cattle prices have slipped significantly over the last couple of week, largely reflecting seasonal supply factors. Feeder Cattle futures fell along with live cattle this week. At Oklahoma City this week, prices on feeder steers and heifers over 800 pounds were mostly steady; prices on 600-800 pound feeders were steady to $1 lower; and prices on stocker calves were...

Features: Blog . Contribute . Favorites . Forum Advertisement Advertisement. In truth Angus is a breed of cattle, not a part of the animal. The gist was that Angus sounded like something gross, and it came from the very back of the cow. In a lawsuit filed in federal court yesterday, CKE alleges that San Diego-based Jack in the Box is attempting to confuse consumers into thinking that its Angus burgers come from the rear-end and/or anus of beef cattle by creating phonetic and aural...

The farm, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, has an international reputation as a breeder of registered performing Angus cattle. Duffel has had a love of the livestock industry ever since his youth, when he would visit his grandparents' cattle farm in South Carolina. Duffell noted that Whitestone Farm does not use steroids to enhance the 1,200 head of cattle at the farm, which employs nine people. What was your first job on the farm? My first job out of high school in...