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representative at a stock sale in San Salvador. At the sale, a monstrous bull weighing 3,000 pounds was purchased by Nicaraguan dictator Antonio Somoza from a Canadian breeder. “There are rumors of a tremendous price,” Parrish said. Reports he heard had the animal going for anywhere from $100,000 to $1,000,000—a lot of money for a lot of bull. “He looked very good,” Parrish added.
The super bull of San Salvador sparked Parrish’s interest. Later, while accompanying four plane loads of dairy cattle to a sale in Costa Rica, he met a fellow Angus breeder. “That’s unusual in Costa Rica,” Parrish explained, noting that heat and ticks combine to make the country’s low lands fit for practically nothing but Brahma cattle. “He believed ChianinaAngus was the best crossbreed for today’s world,” Parrish said. The stranger, on his way to a Chianina convention in Brazil, sold the Castleton farmer on his idea.
Parrish returned to Virginia, convinced to give Chianinas a try. “1 thought I’d have to go a long way to find a bull but I lucked out,” Instead of a trek to Italy, the breed’s native country, or to Canada or South America, where Chianinas have recently become very
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