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December 15, 2004
Vermont Journal feature article "Randall Lineback: Vermont's Agricultural Heritage" by William Graves
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A feature article about Randalls and their place in Vermont's agricultural past, present and future. The Vermont Journal is a weekly central-Vermont area newspaper.
December 3, 2004
Agri-Guide feature article "A Original American Breed", by Judith Dumke-Emery
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A short introduction to the Randall breed. Agri-Guide is an agricultral publication in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana and Iowa, and has a circulation of 40,000 farms and ranches.
December 15, 2004
David Randall travels to the original Randall farm in Sunderland, Vermont
A trip was made to Sunderland today to talk with family, friends and haying help of Everett Randall. We learned much about the events and environment which influenced the Randall Lineback breed as we know it today. Photos of the farm and excerpts of the interviews will be posted here at a later date.
December 2, 2004
Channel 3 News, WCAX-TV Burlington, Vermont
Reporter Anson Tebbetts traveled to Kinship Farm in South Kirby, Vermont to tape a segment on the Randall Lilnebacks. The piece was aired on December 2nd and was met with great enthusiasm and interest; the response has been wonderful. Among the issues discussed were the importance of conserving the Randalls and the goal of having the Randall Lineback designated the Vermont State Heritage Breed.
October 10, 2004
Cooperative effort to return Randalls to a commercial dairy herd
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Hamilton Rare Breeds Foundation, David Randall and Kinship Farm are working together to incorporate Randalls into the milking herd at Kinship Farm, a Vermont Dairy of Distinction in South Kirby, Vermont. Daisy, a bred Randall heifer, will be on official DHI test when she calves in Feb-March 2005.
Daisy was delivered to Kinship Farm by Debbie and Pat of HRBF on October 10, and immediately started to show her "feral Instincts." She is now in a small pasture with a few Holstein heifers, and has integrated well. When the Holstien heifers are inside eating hay and grain, Daisy chooses to remain outside eating grasses and plants that the others have left behind.
This experiment will benefit the breed by seeing what Randall cattle are capable of producing in a grass-based dairy. We plan on making cheese, butter, and ice cream to experiement with the taste and quality of the Randall milk and milk products. Kinship Farm welcomes visitors, and is located in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. We would like to thank Mary Kay and Dennis Wood for participating in this endeavor, and for providing a wonderful home for Daisy.
August 2, 2004
Message from David Randall
For some time I have been on a quest for information on Randall Lineback cattle. Through Internet searches and personal contacts I have found some information and met a lot of nice people, but the search hasn’t been easy.
As my search progressed, I myself began to receive requests for information on Randall Linebacks. So I was not alone. As I continued to receive inquiries, I realized that the information is just not readily avaliable. Not only does this breed need promotion to save it from extinction, but the people who are interested in them need an easily accessible source of information. So this web site was born.
Although I am focusing on promoting this breed in the state of Vermont, I want to include anyone who is interested regardless of location. So if you have questions, answers, observations, suggestions, photos to share, animals for sale, please use the forum or email us. Breeders, if you would like your contact info added to our site, please send it along.
This service is provided at no cost to anyone. We are providing this web site purely for the benefit of the Randall Lineback breed.