As you can imagine a great deal of our interaction with Jersey owners and industry partners and suppliers relates to people who live in Canada. However, many days we have the privilege of working with and assisting folks who are from other countries, "foreign lands", if you will. Here is a sampler of international people who we've communicated with on Jersey topics during the early part of this week-and it is only Wednesday morning!
From Jersey Island - Suzanne Le Feuvre; Rob Perchard; Derrick Frigot
From the USA - Erick Metzger, Paula England, Sally Stine and Dan Bauer at the AJCA; Bill Maness in Tennessee; Melissa Hart in Michigan-Melissa is a very active farm press writer who works with Holstein International; Dairy Agenda Today and has her own neat blog at http://knolltopfarmwife.blogspot.com. She and her farming family have a Holstein herd and in the latter part of 2008 added two milking Jerseys to the mix! Everyone gets smart sooner or later! :)
From Wales in the UK: Ffiona Jones reported that her sons had become local TV stars while showing their daughters of Canadian sires Bridon Jamaica and Pine Haven Senior. They had had to contend with competition from a descendant of Canadian-born supercow Huronia Centurion Veronica, Ex-97%.
Wikus Van der Merwe from Jersey South Africa sent us a photo of a great young cow that he had seen and photographed in recent days.
Raewyne Collins from one of the New Zealand Jersey groups forwarded a question about the pedigree of a bull - who happened to be from the USA so we sent that on to the AJCA.
Richard Brown from New South Wales in Australia forwarded news about his new role with a local Jersey group. He also commented on the pioneering work that he and his family had done in bringing semen from Canadian Jersey bulls Brampton Sixth Generation and later Meadow Lawn Bright Spot to Aussie. This provoked reflection about the influential Brampton herd at Brampton, Ontario. And we also mused about the Meadow Lawn herd at Markham, Ontario where Bright Spot was born and Wendybrook Farm in Quebec's Eastern Townships where the bull was bred. Then we wandered (on an internal mind trip) over to Prince Edward Island where Edison Mutch had bred a number of the females in the direct line between Bright Spot in his River North herd.
Yes, much of our energy and time is directed to helping Canadian dairy folks with a focus on domestic breed growth. We also have the privilege of working with a bevy of enthusiastic and capable Jersey/dairy people all over the globe-and that is icing on the cake!
From Jersey Island - Suzanne Le Feuvre; Rob Perchard; Derrick Frigot
From the USA - Erick Metzger, Paula England, Sally Stine and Dan Bauer at the AJCA; Bill Maness in Tennessee; Melissa Hart in Michigan-Melissa is a very active farm press writer who works with Holstein International; Dairy Agenda Today and has her own neat blog at http://knolltopfarmwife.blogspot.com. She and her farming family have a Holstein herd and in the latter part of 2008 added two milking Jerseys to the mix! Everyone gets smart sooner or later! :)
From Wales in the UK: Ffiona Jones reported that her sons had become local TV stars while showing their daughters of Canadian sires Bridon Jamaica and Pine Haven Senior. They had had to contend with competition from a descendant of Canadian-born supercow Huronia Centurion Veronica, Ex-97%.
Wikus Van der Merwe from Jersey South Africa sent us a photo of a great young cow that he had seen and photographed in recent days.
Raewyne Collins from one of the New Zealand Jersey groups forwarded a question about the pedigree of a bull - who happened to be from the USA so we sent that on to the AJCA.
Richard Brown from New South Wales in Australia forwarded news about his new role with a local Jersey group. He also commented on the pioneering work that he and his family had done in bringing semen from Canadian Jersey bulls Brampton Sixth Generation and later Meadow Lawn Bright Spot to Aussie. This provoked reflection about the influential Brampton herd at Brampton, Ontario. And we also mused about the Meadow Lawn herd at Markham, Ontario where Bright Spot was born and Wendybrook Farm in Quebec's Eastern Townships where the bull was bred. Then we wandered (on an internal mind trip) over to Prince Edward Island where Edison Mutch had bred a number of the females in the direct line between Bright Spot in his River North herd.
Yes, much of our energy and time is directed to helping Canadian dairy folks with a focus on domestic breed growth. We also have the privilege of working with a bevy of enthusiastic and capable Jersey/dairy people all over the globe-and that is icing on the cake!
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