Adele Campbell is an unlikely Legend because her achievement has been recognized long after her death. The Khaki Campbell was a prolific egg producer and became the benchmark on which all other egg laying ducks were compared, quite often in side by side trials more...
The founder, James J. Warren, was born on October 10th, 1892 in Batavia, New York. His family ultimately moved to North Brookfield, Massachusetts from Batavia, New York and established a small dairy farm there. James Warren went to college at what was then...
As the name Hypeco-CPI-Bovans indicates the company was an amalgamation of three groups who began commercial breeding in the 1950’s and had origins in the Dutch and Belgium farming cooperatives. In 1951 five Dutch poultry specialists visited the U.S. to study the...
“There would be no Hy-Line chickens today if it were not for hybrid corn”, said Henry B. Wallace Jr. M.S.A. in London on 13th May, 1949 at a Special Poultry Breeding Conference Chaired by Dr Rupert Coles. Just over two years earlier his father Mr Henry A Wallace Sen....
The Hubbard homestead in 2000 Hubbard Farms Inc can trace its origins back to 1791 when Levi Hubbard settled in Walpole and built a homestead on Old Drewsville Road. In the early 1900’s his great-grandson Ira ran a general produce farm, Maple Hill Farm, there with the...
Dr Art Heisdorf began poultry farming in 1926 when he purchased 23 White Wyandotte chicks. He was employed as a geneticist in the Kimber organisation which operated only in California within the US. He started his own layer breeding company with his wife Mary on a 15...
