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Advertise
your Livestock
'For Sale' items in our free classifieds
at the HBC Marketplace
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New Article
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Garden
City, Kan., missed out on the suburban building boom of the postwar
years. What it got instead were sprawling subdivisions of cattle. These
feedlots -- the nation's first -- began rising on the high plains of
western Kansas in the 50's, and by now developments catering to cows
are far more common here than developments catering to people.
...If I was going to continue to eat
red meat, then I owed it to myself, as well as to the animals, to take
more responsibility for the invisible but crucial transaction between
ourselves and the animals we eat. I'd try to own it, in other words.
So this is the biography of my
cow.
read more...
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Caring for the World's Heritage Breeds
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The Heritage Breeds Conservancy,
is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation working to conserve
historic and endangered breeds of livestock and poultry.
By preserving rare breeds and their genetic resources,
we sustain biodiversity in agriculture and offer important
options for farming and humanity in the future.
Through breeding programs, education and farmer assistance,
we promote farming where Heritage Breeds flourish and
where animal care, quality products, and a way of life
are the priorities. Our new programs include the following:
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HBC@ Program
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The HBC@ Program
works with museums, historic villages, zoos, and interpretive farms to to promote
conservation of heritage livestock and to educate the public about caring for the
world's heritage breeds.
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Heritage Farms Program
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The Heritage Farm Program
helps member farms to establish and maintain production herds of heritage breed livestock,
and produce quality goods from these historic breeds.
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About HBC:
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Breeding Programs:
HBC is currently working in our state of the art breeding
center to establish production herds of registered heritage
breed livestock. Currently we are focusing on Beef and
Milking Devon, Kerry and White Park cattle, Tamworth and
Gloucestershire Old Spot hogs, Karakul, Cotswold and Navajo
Churro sheep and Bourbon Red and Narragansett turkeys.
The intent of these breeding programs is to provide livestock
resources for dissemination and reintroduction of endangered
breeds to small farms throughout New England.
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Education
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Education:
Through seminars, our
HBC@ Programs,
Fall Event, fairs
and other educational initiatives, HBC works to educate
the public, farmers, and consumers about livestock genetic
conservation, the many advantages of caring for the world's
heritage breeds, and the importance of biodiversity in
agriculture. For younger readers, the curriculum
"Farm to Table"
presents entertaining and informative lesson plans to teach the
connection of agriculture to our everyday lives.
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Farmer Assistance
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Farmer Assistance:
Though our Heritage
Farms Program, HBC is assisting farmers in the acquisition
of heritage stock, and providing them with continuing
resource information, placement services, and marketing
assistance. We also offer farmers networking opportunities
which result in production advantages such as the use
of common processing facilities.
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Marketing Alternatives
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Marketing Alternatives:
HBC has begun working to develop profitable market niches
for farmers, where they can receive premium prices from
consumers who appreciate the quality of their specialty
products -- ensuring that small New England farms will
forever remain a part of the landscape, and a viable home
for rare and endangered breeds.
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