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George Henry Peck established Clear Echo Farm in 1867. George Peck took a sack of gold pieces from an old trunk and walked across several fields to purchase the farm’s original 97 acres. George’s son, George Hiram Peck and wife Anna, who added 145 acres of forestland, later owned the farm. Along with farming they did some logging, firewood and ice-cutting activities. In 1933, George Hiram Peck died suddenly and his son Fred Peck took over the farm. Fred married Esther Baker and together they increased the cows from 14 to 40 in a new tie-stall barn in 1957. In 1976, their son Larry, along with his wife Jean, took over the operation of the farm. Larry graduated from Cobleskill College and built a herd of registered Holsteins. The herd consisted of 150 cows and 130 replacements in 1992. His wife, Jean Peck, graduated from Albany Business College with a degree in nursing and is now keeping the books for the farm. Their son Kevin graduated from Cornell University in 1991 with a Bachelors Degree in Animal Science. When Kevin returned from college he completed a major expansion project that provided a new freestall barn, milking parlor, and increased the milking herd to its current number of 350. Kevin’s wife, Carrie, graduated from Springfield College in 1993 with a Bachelors Degree in Physical Education and received her Masters Degree from SUNY Plattsburgh in 1997. Kevin and Carrie have two sons, Matthew and Ryan.

	Clear Echo Farm, LLC is a purebred registered Holstein herd with 350 cows, 270 replacement heifers and 40 bulls.
	The cows are milked 3X with a RHA of 24,500 3.9%F and 3.1%P. The cows are housed in a 6-row insulated freestall barn with headlocks, mattresses and alley scrapers. The cows are milked in a double-10 herringbone with computer ID.
	Cows are fed corn silage, haylage and high moisture shell corn that is grown from the 500 owned acres and 300 rented tillable acres.
	Expansion is complete, 440-stall barn with tunnel ventilation.

For over twenty years we have bred from the top bulls in the breed. In the past we emphasized high milk production with good percent tests. However, since moving into a confined, competitive freestall barn, we have placed more emphasis on good udders, sound feet, legs and strength.