Draft Horse Journal

Current Issue - Winter 2011-2012

Funk's Colts

Long before Midwestern corn growers ever heard of Funk’s G Hybrid seed corn, farmers in central Illinois knew the offspring of imported European draft horses as simply “Funk’s Colts.” Members of the innovative and influential Illinois Funk family imported and bred so many Percheron horses between 1870 and 1900 tha... Read more

5th Generation Logger

July 1, 2011, a ferocious windstorm attacked northern Wisconsin, killing one person, injuring dozens of others, and destroying trees on some 130,000 acres of land. In addition to mountainous piles of brush, the storm left an estimated two million cords of wood on the ground. Volunteers, the National Guard and loggers... Read more

STABLE TALK

Sponsors are one of the heavy horse community's most important assets. Many draft horse events would fold without sponsorship, for a lack of funding. It is essential that draft horse breeders and draft horse exhibitors recognize this. Exhibitors, in particular, need to thank event sponsors. In the heat of competition and/or the flush of victory, e... Read more

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