One of my favorite holidays is coming up! While the main reason we celebrate Easter is the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, what else comes to mind when you mention Easter? The egg! A favorite memory of Easter is being at my Grams and Gramps’ house. After church and lunch, our Uncles – along […]
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Commitment to fresh food
For me, it doesn’t need to be a new year to start a new resolution or goal. But since we’re in the mindset of resolutions after just turning over the calendar, it is a good time to start one. Whether that is for your health, for fun or for your community, now is as good […]
The “Dozen” Days of Christmas
Last year, two of my college friends and I got together for a big, Christmas cookie baking weekend, and we had so much fun we’re planning it again for this year! All three of us have agriculture backgrounds, so it’s fun to not only bake during this time together, but to share stories of how […]
New study shows egg production is “growing more with less”
Sustainability. The environment. Producing more with less. These are all buzzwords in agriculture that are important not only to the consumers demanding sustainable, environmentally friendly food and co-products, but to the farmers and ranchers producing their food and co-products. Farmers and ranchers care so much about this, that they invest dollars into research and education, […]
Solving world hunger: 1 egg at a time
This is Part 3 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. Read Part 1 and Part 2. What Part 1 and Part 2 may have shown you is that we have a challenge: feeding our growing global population. […]
Transformation Nation, and we’re not talking Dr. Oz.
Consumers. They are the ones who have the most influential say in what production practices are put into place for livestock production and animal welfare practices. And these consumers are talking to their food retailers. Lately, we have seen more and more retailers put policies in place that require their supply of meat to be […]
Is There Such a Thing as an Easter-Tofu Hunt?
“Eggs are universal symbols of rebirth and renewal. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), however, would like to turn them into emblems of cruelty and death,” writes Dean Kleckner, an Iowa farmer who chairs Truth About Trade & Technology. Although I believe Easter is all about Jesus Christ’s Resurrection, Kleckner makes some excellent […]
Agvocate; Video comments support ag industry
Agvocate: the term of effectively communicating to the public the importance of agriculture contributing to our economy and the environment. May it be a dairy farmer who blogs about how he is treating his milk cows humanely, or a corn farmer tweeting about how his GM crops are safe, or even an extension agent talking […]
