In the annals of Silver Maple Dexters, few names resonate within our farm with the enduring legacy of SMD Octavia Certus #026256,...

Genomic testing  is transforming the beef cattle breeding industry. Breeders of major beef breeds are increasingly using genomic testing...

Breed Standards are critically important for the maintenance of breed integrity.

The ideal Dexter cow is characterized by its deep body structure, which is a key feature in the breed standard and specified in the...

We have been asked this question many times over the years, and we are pleased to provide our reasons for not using polled genetics. We...

Satire R Us Ranch is a bit perplexed. We keep hearing about folks that have posted an ISO advertisement for Dexter breeding stock on...

SMD Paycheck Ballan The breed is maturing. It is moving well beyond being the Livestock Conservancy’s threatened or endangered breed...

It was a small cattle show by modern Dexter standards at the 13th annual Nebraska State Fair Dexter Show in Grand Island but the quality...

A chapter from Claude Hinman's Dual Purpose Cattle, 1953 and how a book helped weaved a thread across generations in the art of cattle b

From the very start of our herd and over the many years since one of the traits we have insisted upon and continued to demand in our...