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Old 07-03-2021, 03:52 PM
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That herd was offered to Stu Paquatte (I-H Formal Tractor Museum) in Leesburg. He's the guy that paved all the roads in Spanish Springs. He turned down the herd because he was thinning out his own herd of buffalo and didn't have the room. Seems the two herds were bought together by old man Schwartz and Paquette when they were friends in the 90s. Last he told me, that herd was sold to another cattle raiser in Florida. Could not be used for food because The Villages was not USDA approved farmers.

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