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others who have come to the Beaver
Valley for the view and solitude and
are happy to rent out their land for
environmentally -friendly pasture and
hay production.
There are 450 brood cows in the
Top Meadow Farms operation. "We
calve January, February and March
and again in September," Geddes
says. "We started the fall calving
program to get a little more age on
our bulls. We're finding with an extra
four or five months on our fall
yearling bulls, they're able to go out
and handle more cows for the
commercial cattlemen. Sixty per
cent of the calves are spring calves
and 40 per cent are fall. We'll
increase that over time to 50/50."
Of the cow herd, roughly 175 are
commercial cows used as recipients
for embryo transplants. There are 275
purebred cows.
While word of mouth is the
farm's top marketing tool,
it also is working to
establish the Top Meadow Farms
name more widely through
advertising, sponsorship of events or
trade shows.
"Presence is important," Geddes
says. "Presence via marketing, via
trade shows (and) livestock
exhibitions. You still have to get out
there for people to see your product.
Geddes has been with Top
Meadow through some of its most
rapid growth in the past five years. A
Kincardine native, he was a ruminant
nutritionist with Purina when Darryl
Saunders, the cow herd manager with
Top Meadow told him the farm
needed a hand. "When I started there
were 60-65 commercial cows and 30
papered cows," he says. "The last
five years have been rapid expansion,
physically in land -base and
buildings. On the business side we've
spent a lot of money on improving
the genetic base. Going to Europe is
a very costly procedure."
Geddes says they wanted to
import embryos on a large enough
scale to have some to offer to North
American customers. A portion of
the implants just won't work and a
portion is needed for their own herd
so they figured they had to bring 450
embryos to make their plans work.
"Right now we have the' North
American rights on seven of the most
proven European bulls.