Arethusa Farm LLC

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Arethusa Farm was established in 1999 when owners, George Malkemus and Anthony Yurgaitis, purchased a horse farm across from their Litchfield, Connecticut home. The original plan called for starting a dairy farm and bottling milk for sale to the local community. However, as new barns were built, and old ones remodeled, a new plan started to take shape. George and Tony were introduced to "show cows". They attended The Royal Winter Fair in 2001 where they introduced themselves to Ernie Kueffner. He had just exhibited both the Grand and Reserve Grand Champions and they were interested to learn how he became successful at the top level. They wanted him to join them in building Arethusa Farm. Kueffner was hired as a Marketing Consultant in the spring of 2002. At the same time, Arethusa purchased two promising young cows, Ernest-Anthony SC Vivian and Brigeen Skychief Rose, and a group of ten open heifers from Ernie. Three of these deep-pedigreed heifers were flushed, resulting in the first seven heifer calves to carry the Arethusa prefix. Sammy and Ariel were the highest scoring two-year olds to come out of this group. Ariel was named Supreme Champion of the Kingsmill Futurity at World Dairy Expo in 2004. Sammy and Ariel are now EX94 and EX93, respectively, as 5-year olds. This purchase gave Arethusa Farm an outstanding group of deep-pedigreed young cows to build on. Now these cows are filling the barns with daughters of their own...

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