What's new at RAD-ical
1/10 - Come visit us during convention!
RAD-ical Genetics would like to welcome everyone to come see the sights and sounds of RAD-ical Genetics on Tuesday June 29, from 11 to 3, during our open house. Come enjoy good cows, good people and have a good time! Snacks ande refreshments will be served. This open house is in conjunction with the 2010 National Brown Swiss Convention.
1/10 - Nominations are in!
RAD-ical Genetics is very excited about our 4 All-American Brown Swiss Nominations!! What a great year we had! Congratulations to everyone else on their nominations!
RAD-ical Agenda Cheesecake - Spring Calf
Top Acres Agenda Roxett - Fall Calf
Hoodstead Starsky Betsy - Fall Yearling in Milk
Top Acres Legacy
Gypsy - Junior 3-yr-old / 1st Junior
11/09 - Great trip to Louisville
A trip to Louisville for the Southeastern National Show was a successful end to an outstanding first show season for RAD-ical Genetics! Several of our showstring stars shined at the show, including North Lanes Mailman Apples, who's pictured above after being named Senior Champion of the Show. She was later named Honorable Mention Grand Champion. Other highlights of the open show are Southern Acres MrSnick Dimples, first place Summer Yearling. Four other entries were second and we also exhibited the second place Junior Best 3 Females.
11/09 - Showgirl does it again!
Showgirl has been catching the eye of judges all year long and did again of Judge Brian Garrison at the Southeastern National Junior Show. After winning the Fall Yearling Class, Judge Garrison named Showgirl Junior Champion of the show. This marks two shows in a row that RAD-ical has exhibited the Junior Champ of the youth show!
The night didn't end there though as North Lanes Mailman Apples was later named Grand Champion of the Junior Show! We also had three other class winners in the show. RAD-ical's junior show exhibitors definitely made some noise!
10/09 - Roxett earns the Rosette!
Top Acres Agenda Roxett continued a successful fall show season with another 1st place junior show ribbon at World Dairy Expo. Only this time, she was also selected as the Junior Champion! Roxett also placed 2nd open in a very competitive Fall Calf Class.
Another RAD-ical highlight at World Dairy Expo was our new purchase Hoodstead Starsky Betsy who placed 1st and Best Udder in the Fall Yearling in Milk Class. Other Expo highlights include:
Cheesecake - 4th place Spring Calf / 1st Junior
Gypsy (Legacy x Gredel) - 4th place Jr. 3-yr-old / 1st Junior
9/09 – Showgirl makes a name for herself at Harrisburg!
Kulp-Terra TA Showgirl ET made a big name for herself at the All-American Dairy Show by being named Reserve Junior Champion in the Eastern National Brown Swiss Show. Earlier in the week, she 1st Fall Yearling and Honorable Mention Junior Champion in the Premier Naitonal Junior Show. We're anxious to get her out to Madison for World Dairy Expo. Other results from Harrisburg include:
Premier National Junior Show:
Cheesecake - 2nd Spring Calf
Roxett - 1st Fall Calf
Charm - 6th Summer Yearling
Dimples - 3rd Summer Yearling
Eastern National:
Cheesecake - 5th Spring Calf
Roxett- 4th Fall Calf
Charm- 4th Summer Yearling
Dimples- 6th Summer Yearling
9/09 – Win RAD Gear!
Be sure to look for our ad in this month’s Brown Swiss Bulletin for your chance to win FREE RAD gear. We have hats, t-shirts, sweatshirts, and clipping jackets up for grabs if you can guess all the "Legendary Ladies" at the bottom of our September advertisement. E-mail your responses or visit us on Facebook today!
8/09 - Great start to the show season!
RAD-ical Genetics had a wonderful day at the KY State Fair with 4 heifer class winners and the 1st place Junior Best Three Females. Pictured on the left are the 1st and 2nd place Spring Calves, both from RAD-ical! We are anxious to get our animals to Harrisburg and Madison to see how they stack up!
7/09 – Classification Results!
RAD-ical Genetics is now home to two new EX-91 cows, both of which now are EX-93 in the mammary system. North Lanes Mail Apples and North Lanes Mail Carisma are both Mailman daughters purchased at the North Lane Farms Sale.
Other highlights include three Very Good 2-year-olds with high udder scores: Southern Acres M Flicka ET VG-88 EX-92MS, Shen-Val BC Cameron VG-86 EX-90MS, and Southern Acres M Fascy VG-86 VG-88MS. RAD-ical Genetics is a fairly young herd and we’re excited by the results. Of the 18 scored 2-year-olds, 12 went Very Good and none were lower than +82.
6/09 – International Winner!
Lindsey Rucks was the winner of the dairy judging contest at the Royal Highland International Show in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was high individual in reasons as well as the high individual overall. Lindsey, and her Florida dairy judging teammates earned this chance of a lifetime trip by being a member of the 2nd place 4-H team at the National Dairy Judging Contest at World Dairy Expo 2008. While on their trip, the girls visited England, Scotland, Germany, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Last fall, Lindsey was the winner of the Invitational Youth Dairy Judging Contest at the All-American Dairy Show before placing 2nd in Madison at the national contest. She was high individual in oral reasons at both contests.
5/09 – Sensational Starmark Purchases
Top Acres Premium Stacy and Top Acres Premium Sheen were RAD-ical Genetics recent purchases at the very pleasing Snapshots of Starmark sale. Stacy and Sheen are full sisters, Premium draughts from the great Snowstorm family. Both calved in June and went Very Good recently fresh.
4/09 – KY National Sale Show and Sale.
Top Acres Agenda Roxett was our purchase at the KY National Show and Sale this spring. She is an Agenda daughter of Round Hill Mist Rockie 3E-92 and will show as a Fall Calf in 2009.
In fact, Judge Lisa Gibson made her 1st place Fall Calf and Junior Champion of the Kentucky National Show! To quote Judge Gibson: "This heifer needs to go home and continue growing because she has a bright future ahead in the months to come." We think she’s right!