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> Brad and Melody Cowan and their son have been to NZ and now graze
> 800 cows NZ style and have built a rotary.
We actually have 2 sons and 2 daughters. In birth order they are:
Aleia, Nathaniel, Julian, and Marika. Aleia is a registered nurse and
lives close by. Nathaniel is married to Lori and have 2 little
grandsons for us. Nathaniel is my outside genius, can run any piece
of equipment he sees to pro skills within a half day seeing it along
with stepping in to care for cows and do AI. He is always figuring
out how to do every job we do in the quickest and efficient way there
is. Julian is the cow man. Last spring he self taught himself to do
our AI and bred most of the cows and heifers last year after spending
the previous 18 months working in NZ and traveling around visiting
the top jersey herds. This winter He took a course on embryo transfer
and has successfully flushed several cows. Marika is a half year out
of high school and is taking classes at the local college. She is
Oregon Jersey Queen and ran for national last fall in Kentucky. She
wants to run for Oregon state dairy princess this year. After this
she is planning to go to U of Minn. and study dairy with emphasis on
genetics. The farm we are on is a 3rd generation dairy and our family
is the start of a new name for this farm. Our landlord and his wife
are adopted family to us. To me the biggest success a farm can claim
is an enthusiastic next generation to multiply the successes.
Brad Cowan
Astoria,Oregon
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