Bill Elkins

I grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania, but left for heavy education, winding up with an MD and going on to a 30 year career in biomedical research. But I retained my love for farm life, and when it came time to move on, it was back to my first love. In 1985 my wife, Helen, and I were lucky to acquire 350 acres of grass pasture that had been purchased forty years earlier by the King Ranch of Texas for their cattle en route to slaughter in New Jersey. Over the years our Angus herd has been bred and selected to do it all on grass. In 2008 I attended Greg Judy U.on the Devil's Washboard rd in Mizzou, and have been trying to graze his way since then. I'm trying to understand some of the fascinating biology that goes on in my pastures, so I read bio-medical literature and blogs like this one.