Moreno Dohlman Cattle Co.

01/13/2023

Timeline photos

It all starts in the sandbox...

📷 : Erika R.

10/14/2022

Brought a horse to pasture and Willard came to say hi…. His ears are so jammed up with weeds I don’t think he can hear!!!! 😂😂

10/14/2022

National Pumpkin Month: Did you know?
Most pumpkins are grown for processing, not ornamental sales.

10/12/2022

10/06/2022

Famous!!!

09/26/2022

Watch out!!!! Restock!!!

09/22/2022

Might add some corn shocks tomorrow, what do you think????

09/22/2022

Look at this whopper! Stephanie Swieter

09/21/2022

Holy smokes!!!! Look at these melons!!!!

09/21/2022

Feels like fall!!

09/20/2022

Restock alert!!!!

09/15/2022

Thanks to Jack for the pumpkins!!! I’d like to say I’m supporting a…. Small business owner 😂😂

08/30/2022

🤯

Dale Marshall broke his own record and set a new state record with this 2147.0 pound giant pumpkin!

08/26/2022

Lots of fresh stuff!

08/23/2022

Welcome to our farm Donny and Walter!!!

08/21/2022

Fresh!

08/18/2022

Everything freshly picked! Jackie Dohlman has the best!

08/10/2022

Well it’s officially open!!! Small selection, but hopefully it will be full soon!!!

08/07/2022

That’s a big one!

07/28/2022

Jackie Dohlman rode along to help me find calves…. I don’t think this is the one we were looking for!!!!! 😂😂

07/07/2022

Thanks to domestication and the ensuing genetic alteration over five millennia. Also, thanks Monsanto!

06/22/2022

Our sweet baby Suzy Bob had her first baby!!!! A beautiful little girl!!! Welcome Bobby Sue!!!

06/20/2022

Well I cut that one close…. No hay pun intended…. 😂😂😂

05/29/2022

Nothing Stopping Us

🙄

04/16/2022

Twice in a week…. She was brand new too…. ☹️

04/12/2022

Mama and mama Goose…. Love them Duckers

03/29/2022

What could have been!

America was facing the prospect of a serious meat shortage in 1910. The rapidly growing population was outpacing the country’s ability to raise meat animals. Techniques for the mass production of hogs and chickens had not yet been invented. Overgrazing was destroying pastureland and the number of beef cattle in the country was falling by a million per year, as beef prices soared. It seemed that the country couldn’t continue to rely on its dwindling supply beef cattle. What then to do?

Frederick Russell Burnham, a then-famous adventurer, mercenary, and explorer had an idea, and he persuaded Congressman Robert Foligny Broussard of Louisiana of its wisdom. The idea? To import hippopotamuses to the swampy Gulf coast and raise them for food.

Burnham’s idea was particularly attractive to Broussard, a Cajun planter who saw hippos as the potential solution to a problem plaguing his state. In 1884 Japanese delegates to an international cotton exposition had brought water hyacinths from their country to distribute as gifts. By 1910 the hyacinths were clogging Louisiana rivers, destroying the livelihoods of fishermen and impeding or blocking river navigation. Broussard imagined herds of hippos eating up the hated hyacinths, while simultaneously ending the nation’s meat shortage and bringing wealth to hippo ranchers. It seemed to him to be a win-win.

So, Broussard introduced a bill in Congress for the importation of hippopotamuses, and the proposal was met with acclaim. The New York Times called the idea “practical and timely.” Newspapers around the country enthusiastically endorsed it. President Teddy Roosevelt gave it his hearty approval. According to The Washington Post, it was “a question of only a very few years now when large shipments of hippos will be made to America.”

But as much as Americans loved meat, convincing them to eat hippos would not be an easy task. Then, as now, Americans almost exclusively ate only four animals, imported originally from Europe—cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry, with beef being the predominant meat by far in 1910. Undeterred, a New York Times editorial insisted that hippo meat was tasty and should be called “lake cow bacon.” The general public remained skeptical.

Alas, Broussard’s vision of hippopotamus herds grazing happily on hyacinth flowers in the swamps of Louisiana was not to be, and there would be no hippo steaks on American dinner plates. The Department of Agriculture never bought into the notion, insisting that the solution to the meat shortage was simply to drain the swamps and turn them into grass pastures suitable for beef cattle—a proposal that had the advantage of not requiring Americans to acquire a taste for hippo meat. No hippopotamuses were ever imported to the U.S. and there were never any hippo ranches in the Gulf states.

Congressman Robert Broussard introduced House Bill 23261, to appropriate $250,000 for the importation of hippopotamuses into the United States, on March 24, 1910, one hundred twelve years ago today.

Today the state of Louisiana spends over $2 million per year spraying herbicides on water hyacinth.

03/05/2022

🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

03/02/2022

Beautiful day with a beautiful girl! Lilianna M Dohlman

01/08/2022

Join us for a fun FarmChat with Midland Co.on Friday, January 14th at noon via Facebook live. Midland Co. is a shrimp farm here in Iowa! They are going to be teaching us about shrimp farming.

01/08/2022

Hell yes!!!!!!! Wookie took them to number 4!!!!! Woooooo!!!!!!!!

Iowa kids did us proud! 4th place finish!!

12/18/2021

Got everything home and safe! If you see some characters hanging around don’t worry… as long as they are not on the highway!!!

12/02/2021

Weaned Carl today… he had other plans!!!!

11/28/2021

Sheep form a heart tribute as farmer misses aunt's funeral

Sheep form a heart tribute as farmer misses aunt's funeral

11/27/2021

Lilianna M Dohlman and the girls always seem to find the biggest tree!! Check out these custom hand stitched ornaments!!

11/05/2021

Hey if you can’t duct it….???

11/01/2021

Cheating Scandal | Short Stuff

So much drama on the farm!!