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Hoven Farms

August 17, 2010

Hoven Farms is a 100 year old Alberta Family Farm that grows certified organic beef. You can try some at the Kingsland Farmers Market. I’m Tim Hoven, welcome to Hoven Farms. Hoven farms has been in Alberta for 100 years, as Matthias Hoven and his two songs began raising cattle on this land near Eckville. [...]

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Quick Pic: Tasty

August 2, 2010

I took the camera out for some pictures yesterday and I kind of stumbled onto this shot.  The focused dandelion with the out of focus cows in the background really got my attention.  It looks like all the cattle are staring down at a very tasty morsel and are all debating who is the lucky [...]

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Swath Grazing on Hoven Farms

November 5, 2009

Every fall we start our swath grazing.  It allows us to feed our animals top quality feed over the non-growing season without starting a tractor.  You can see the swaths of second cut alfalfa here.  We just moved the electric fence wire allowing these cows to enter a new part of the pasture.  They stick [...]

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Reading the Ear Tag

November 29, 2008

This is a Joey using the Gallagher Smart Reader to record the information on the RFID eartag.  Simple enough an 8 year old can do it. After the day’s work was done, I connected the Smart Reader to my desktop, compiled the information and sent it off to the CCIA website.  Voila!!  Our calves were [...]

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Eartagging Cattle today

November 29, 2008

Eartagging Cattle on Flickr – Photo Sharing! It was a beautiful November day today.  We had planned to ear tag our calves with the CCIA ear tags today so we were extremely pleased. Mike has an ear tag in the ear tagger and is tagging the calf with his/her permanent ear tag.  The tag is [...]

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