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Highland Cows
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“I had horses at the time, and then I decided to start a backyard beef project. I was thinking of getting Herefords, and brother Jack had been in the second world war and when he was stationed in Scotland, waiting to go in on it with the 101st Airborne on D-Day, he rode a bicycle around and he talked with some of the farmers that had the Highland cattle, so he was all interested in 'em. And my dad, being from the Eastern states, he saw the DuPont's had a herd of 'em, so they talked me into . . . well they were trying to talk me into it, and just then I got a National Geographic and on the front page of it was a red Highland cow looking over a stone, so I says, ‘Well, we gotta find these things.’ We found some down at Wapakoneta, Ohio, and brought a couple old cows and a bull home. And then they went out to Illinois, and picked up four more and then they went out to Colorado and got a few more. So we had a nice little herd of 'em going.”
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Phillip Urbank, who grew up In Cuyahoga Falls, describes how he started his highland cow operation.
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Phillip Urbank
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