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Welcome to Northern Divide Highlands!
Northern Divide Highlands is our small hobby farm located in Blackduck,
Minnesota
, about 70 miles south of the Canadian border, and is operated by Larry &
Vicki Brittain
, and our daughter and son-in-law Gina & Gary Palmer.
We became involved with Highland Cattle after visiting the National
Western Stock Show in
Denver
,
CO
January 1997. We went to
Denver
with our neighbors who were showing
Highlands
to help them with the driving. While
we were there I saw that the breed was very unique looking with gentle
dispositions and learned of their positive characteristics including being very
hardy, great maternal instincts, and disease resistant.
My husband, Larry, knew he was in trouble when I spent all my time
combing and grooming a large white bull that our neighbor had taken out to show.
About a month after returning home our neighbor,
Zea
land Farms, called and said they had something I had to see, so off we went to
find a little white heifer calf and that was the beginning of our herd.
After that we purchased some cows and heifers from Kiyiwana Farms in
 New
York
, which was a great addition to our herd. We
joined the American Highland Cattle Association and North Central Highland
Cattle Association and began showing our beautiful
Highlands
. In 1998, Larry, decided he wanted
to try his hand at artificial insemination.
He took a class and went through some training and is now our AI
technician. He felt being able to
use more than one bull a year would be beneficial to us and would give us a
variety of calves every year. We
could pick and choose characteristics that we liked and try to improve the
animals. We have semen from a few
bulls and try to AI some of the cows each year.
The semen that we use is from Gusgurlach of Windrush, GOF Broadstone 13B,
Broadstone 18th of Stonecliffe, and Jock of Glengorm to name a few.
In our herd we have had or have about every color of Highland Cattle,
although I tend to be partial to the whites.
We can usually be found showing
our
Highlands
at the Beltrami County Fair, the two North Central Highland Cattle Associations
Shows (Gopher State Classic & Badger State Highland Classic) and the
National Western Stock Show. We love
working with our highlands and find them to be very relaxing and enjoyable.
Visitors are always welcome to stop by the farm for a visit.
Thank you for stopping by and visiting www.northerndivide.com
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last updated 06/14/2005
visitors since May 13, 2005
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