Are you ready for Growing Season?! We’re not talking about the actual growing season of our crops, this Growing Season is a yearlong documentary mini-series about the Bartak family from Anselmo, Nebraska and their job of growing a crop for this year’s harvest. Although a few of these guys look like they could be straight […]
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Celebrating ag week…calving-style!
Happy National Ag Week! I got to celebrate, calving-style, this past weekend at my in-law’s farm. They have baby calves and baby lambs everywhere! See these two cuties? They are actually twins. One red, one black. The really random thing is that the neighbor had the exact same thing happen, both out of black momma […]
#FarmVoices – It’s our turn
Farmers feed this entire planet. And it’s time the world paid attention. This is what motivated young farmers and ranchers to launch a campaign with the purpose of getting farmers to tell their stories, rather than having farmers stories told by special interest groups outside of farming. I’m super impressed by the work of these […]
“Exceptional” moisture
I’m feeling grateful this Friday. Despite the cold and bitter winter conditions, the ranch received some much needed moisture this week. The ranch in Eastern Colorado is where the green star is on this map – right in the middle of the dark red, Exceptional Drought. We like to view our ranch as “exceptional”, but […]
Dodge Super Bowl commercial giving back FFA-style
An update to my blog post last night. If you didn’t see or hear about the Dodge Ram “So God Made a Farmer” Super Bowl commercial, it is creating quite the conversation. The video features Paul Harvey’s voice sharing the poem with “tear-jerking with pride” images of the people across our country who raise our […]
New app let’s McDonald’s customers “TrackMyMacca’s”
This is pretty aus-some. Consumers want to know where their food comes from, and – in Australia at least – McDonald’s is utilizing technology to tell them. In Australia, McDonald’s is commonly called Macca’s, so McDonald’s has launched a free iPhone app called TrackMyMacca’s that can be downloaded via Facebook or iTunes. It uses the […]
“WE in agriculture.” A response to HSUS.
The following letter was written by my father, a rancher in Eastern Colorado, in response to the HSUS’s CEO Wayne Pacelle’s letter to the editor in Feedstuffs Magazine, December 31, 2012. Dear Editor: Pacelle’s attempt at civility (Dec 31, 2012 Feedstuffs) is similar to a D.C. politician giving the evening forecast. He can rant about […]
What’s the beef with Big Beef?
“Beef’s Raw Edges”: a series of 16 stories that ran over three-consecutive days recently in the Kansas City Star. This series raised plenty of serious issues including beef safety, nutrition, the use of antibiotics and growth promotants and the environmental impact of feedyards. These issues are all important to their readers – however they have […]
Workin’ Farmer Style
The “Farming and I Grow It” Peterson Farm Bros did it again! Check out their new agvocacy video called “Farmer Style (Gangnam Style Parody)“ “We are the Peterson Farm Bros,and we’re farming and we grow itWe love agriculture, and we want the world to know itFarming is a way of life with many different flavorsBeing […]
Three rights of our safe, affordable and abundant food supply
This is Part 2 of 3 of “Making safe, affordable and abundant food a global reality”, Jeff Simmons and Dr. Chris Ashworth from Elanco. Read more at PlentyToThinkAbout.org. In the Part 1 blog post, Simmons summed up that the role of technology in developing safe, affordable and abundant food enables three rights: food, choice, sustainability. […]
