HH Southbend Farm is located in Southern Minnesota. They started raising shorthorns the spring of 2001. As a crop, cattle, and hog farm. Their kids, Andrea & Kelsey, have been active with 4H and FFA. The year of 2001 their oldest daughter's 4H dairy steers were lost in a fallen barn. To find a replacement show animal, Roger found a shorthorn heifer and so began their plunge into the beef/shorthorn breed. After that year they fell in love with shorthorns and continued to learn about and pursue quality genetics.

THeir first heifer, Cannondale Glster Ldy 125, received reserve champion shorthorn heifer at the MN State Fair in 2001.

In 2002 they purchased two heifers from the Anderson family in Spring Valley, WI. One of which went on to win first in her class at the MN State Fair 2003, and the other is a grandam to our 2009 Champion Shorthorn Plus Steer at the MN State Fair.

Click here to take a look at HH Southbend's new website!

Stay tuned on August 10th, EDJE will be hosting our annual company picnic where we'll be announcing the Design of the Year! Good luck to all designers!

Rainbow Ryders, Inc. Hot Air Balloon Company has been in business under the same ownership for 27 years, offering our hot air balloon ride experience in Albuquerque, NM and in Phoenix / Scottsdale, AZ. Rainbow Ryders offers balloon rides every morning at sunrise year-round, weather permitting. Sunset balloon flights are offered during the winter months.

In addition to thier daily year-round balloon flights, Rainbow Ryders offers flight packages for weddings, anniversaries, tour groups, conventions, company retreats, all types of special occasions, and they even have gift certificates.

Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair has been serving the community for over 50 years. Not only do the staff and Fair Board work hard to put on the popular September fair held Wednesday through Sunday the week following Labor Day, but the grounds are used throughout the year providing for community needs.

Congratulations to Show Me Farms for winning April's Design of the Month! 

You want beef that is tender, flavorful, and healthy, with no added hormones, steroids, or other growth stimulants.  Show Me Farms keeps our beef consistently tender by using only purebred, genetically proven cattle in our “Born Tender Omega Beef".  Our steers are raised in grass pastures and are also fed corn, oats, all natural protein, and ground flax seed.  We source identify every beef from birth to processing, so that you will know exactly where your beef comes from.

Check out Show Me Farm's new website!

Organic beef direct from our farm to you. At Damar Farms you will find the finest, 100% certified organic, dry aged Angus meats. They sell USDA certified organic beef, free of antibiotics, growth hormones and animal by-products, from animals raised only on our farm, directly to consumers via our online organic beef store. Simply the finest organic beef you'll find. Visit their online organic beef store to order your organic beef from Damar Farms and enjoy the best organic dry aged angus beef you'll find!

Their organic beef comes only from animals born and raised on Damar Farms in west central Wisconsin. When you buy Damar Farms Organic Beef you can be confident your getting the best dry aged, organic angus beef and some of the safest meat you can buy.

The organic certification program is a fully verifiable production system that collects information on the history of every animal in the program, including its breed history, veterinary care, and feed. No antibiotics, growth-promoting hormones, steroids or animal by-products are added to our organic forage or grain. This means they are never fed rendered animal by-products from slaughter-houses that could have been contaminated with BSE (Mad-Cow-Disease). (BSE is transmitted to cattle through feed containing animal by-products from contaminated animals.)

Take a moment to get to know them at www.damarfarms.com/store; learn more about Damar Farms and the organic practices they use to raise their beef; and how to order their certified 100% organic angus meats. 

Congratulations to Sunset View Farms for winning February's Design of the Month! 

SVF :: It's not just a prefix. It's a program.
For years Sunset View Farms has been producing quality Simmental Cattle.

SVF now has a brand new website to showcase their donors, sires, upcoming sales, showstring, success and more!  Please take a moment to browse through the pages of their new website!  Even more information will be added in the future!

At Kenner Simmental, they respect their customer’s needs and strive to produce genetics that help them to advance with the ever-changing demands of the beef industry. By carefully selecting genetics with both phenotype and EPDs, they are able to satisfy the producer and the consumer. This motivates them to always make a better product from pasture to plate.

Mark your calendars to join Kenner Simmentals for their 13th Annual Production Sale on Saturday, February 13, 2010 in Bismarck, North Dakota.  Cattle will be available for viewing beginning Thursday, February 11 and a Hospitality Party will be held in the Ramkota Hotel's Cannonball Room on Friday, February 12 at 7:30pm.  Lunch will be served beginning at 11:00am on Saturday, February 13 with the sale beginning at 1:00pm.  A social will be held at Farmer's Livestock following the sale and everyone is welcome! 

Check out the newly revamped KENNER SIMMENTALS site for more info on the Production Sale, as well as much more!

Denver Daines grew up just east of Innisfail Alberta Canada on a small farm where his family raised horses and cattle. At 28 years old, Denver competes in rodeo and has a budding country music career and also trains horses.

Denver has been plagued with many injuries, but that just makes for great song writing, along with his numerous trips around Canada and the USA.

You can listen to his three single releases, Seventeen, Big Ol World and Last Ride, free on his website, denverdaines.com. Be sure to check out the Music and Rodeo events to see if Denver is coming to your neck of the woods.