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Wilsondale Farm is a
One of the cows that the Wilsons inherited when they purchased the farm from Karl Merrill in 1961 was named Trina Redstone Marvel, or "Old Trina", which began the family line of Trina cows.
Merrill owned the "Springdale" herd, and his family had farmed with registered cattle since 1881. Advised by Merrill to never sell that particular brown cow, Mike Wilson learned that the cow traced back sixteen generations to one of the first cows imported into the United States from the Netherlands."New England Holstein Convention Shows Off Maine Farms"
– Lancaster Farming, November 3, 2017 There are thirty generations of Trina Holstein offspring today.
The farm has gone on to become one of the leading
– Cowsmopolitan, June 15, 2021 He had worked with Pineland Farms, in an advisory capacity, after their purchase of his farm in 2001.
dairy farm
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in Gray
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, Maine
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, United States. It is notable for its introduction of a specific breed of Holstein cow. It was originally known as Springdale Farm.
The farm, of , was purchased by New Gloucester's Pineland Farms in 2001. It is run by the Wilson family, as it has been since 1961.
The street on which the farm stands, Bull Run, is so named because of the bulls that George T. Merrill and his son, George E., used to have at the farm.
As of 2011, the farm had thirty cows.
Trina breed
One of the cows that the Wilsons inherited when they purchased the farm from Karl Merrill in 1961 was named Trina Redstone Marvel, or "Old Trina", which began the family line of Trina cows.
Merrill owned the "Springdale" herd, and his family had farmed with registered cattle since 1881. Advised by Merrill to never sell that particular brown cow, Mike Wilson learned that the cow traced back sixteen generations to one of the first cows imported into the United States from the Netherlands.– Lancaster Farming, November 3, 2017
Holstein
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breeders in the country.
Over a thousand embryos from the Wilson's Trina family of cows have been exported to the United Kingdom, initially to sell to farms in the 1980s and 1990s to build up their stock.
Recognition
In 1975, the farm won the New England Outstanding Young Breeder Award. In 1999, it won the New England Master Breeder award. As of 2021, the farm was a 20-time winner of the Premier Breeder at the Maine State Show.Mike Wilson
Mike Wilson, founder of Wilsondale Farm, died at the facility on June 5, 2021. He was 79."Mike Wilson of Wilsondale Farm Obituary"– Cowsmopolitan, June 15, 2021 He had worked with Pineland Farms, in an advisory capacity, after their purchase of his farm in 2001.
References
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