On July 19th, Fred Barrett of Oceanbrae Farms in Belmont, Prince Edward Island served as host for the Canadian Milking Shorthorn Society Field Day and AGM along with the rest of the Barrett family. What came as a surprise was that he would also be presented with the Distinguished Service Award, the Society’s highest individual…
2025 VIRTUAL NATIONAL SHOW of the CANADIAN MILKING SHORTHORN SOCIETY ENTRIES CLOSE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th, 2025 Entries to be submitted by email to milking.shorthorn@gmail.com JUDGE: To be announced RULES & REGULATIONS 1. The current rules and regulations including the ‘Standard Exhibitor’s Agreement’ of the Canadian Dairy Breeds are in effect. 2. Exhibits per exhibitor are restricted…
Oceanbrae Farms in Belmont, PEI is planning to host the CMSS Field Day this year on Saturday, July 19th. As PEI is a very busy tourist destination, we wanted to give lots of notice for breeders that are interested in travelling to PEI to make travel plans. To get to PEI, there are: 3 direct…
The Canadian Milking Shorthorn Society is excited to share that Lynmark Farms has been named as a Master Breeder herd for 2025. Lynmark Farms, owned and operated by Tim Shearer and Irene Vietinghoff of Norwood, Ontario, is the third Milking Shorthorn herd to be recognized as Master Breeder since this honour was created in 2008.…
Dear CMSS members, On March 18th, the CMSS office was informed that the Milking Shorthorn sire Oceanbrae Generator ET (MSCANM40011851), marketed by Semex under the CMSS Syndicates program, was not in fact sired by Ovensdale Jenny’s Tribute after receiving results of microsatellite DNA testing. The true sire of Generator is the Australian sire Treeton Pingerly.…
