My comments about Food Day via a video blog. For more info, go check out CommonGround Nebraska’s blog about The REAL Food Day.
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Electric Fence First On XIT Ranch
Part 5: My favorite memory of electric fences is the bag that my dad strapped to the four-wheeler that contained the fiberglass fence poles – a golf bag! I thought it was so silly, but it was the perfect size to hold a lot of small poles and easy to carry as you’re putting the […]
Barbed Wire Shaped Western America
Part 4: I look at barbed wire as a form of art. The hundreds of different designs in the wire, the barbs, the twists, etc. But it was created for a use: to help manage where the cattle could roam. Think of the U.S. before any pastures – one big open range with natural landmarks […]
Antibiotics Changed Our Outlook on Life
In the Beef Producer section of the Farm Progress June Issue, staff compiled a great section on the 10 Greatest Beef Innovations. I think they are all worthy to note, so I’d like to start a series featuring them and adding my input to the new technology in the industry. The one that caught my […]
Sustainable Nutrition | Cattlemen to Cattlemen
My family’s ranch in Eastern Colorado was featured on the NCBA’s Cattlemen to Cattlemen show on RFD-TV last night. My dad has been working with a beef cattle nutritionist from Purina Mills, who has developed a product for sustainable cattle nutrition that can be customized to meet the cattle’s needs. Our family has practiced intensive, […]
A not-so-home-grown example of feeding the world
This was my garden last year (after Hank tried to destroy it…). This is my garden this year. In hopes that Hank, the digmaster pictured above, doesn’t get into my garden this year, I put down chicken wire. Now, I know that doesn’t mean it’ll still keep him out, but we’ll see. Anyways, planting my […]
Drought, fire, water and livestock
A deepening drought is threatening one third of the U.S. And that includes a lot of livestock country. Wildfires are starting up all over, and I’m especially sensitive to these fires when they affect the livestock. In Colorado, three new wildfires started last week that burned more than 11,000 acres, forcing thousands of people and […]
The 9-billion people question? It’s not space we need.
Last week, The Economist Magazine published an extensive series of articles with the summary title of “The 9-billion people question: A special report on feeding the world.” The articles examine what is going to be required to feed more than two billion additional people by 2050, a question being looked at by more than just […]
Ag women scrutinized by jealous environmentalist
Women in agriculture have gotten a beating in the media this week, all because they are tying them to what they dub “Big Ag“. The media authors – ironically women themselves – must just be jealous of the opportunities that farm women are getting to talk to urban women about the food they raise, their families, […]
There is no escape from cows
A friend posted this link on facebook, and I thought it too good not to share. I bet there are several vegans out there that have no clue about this: From rubber to adhesives to anti-aging creams to medicines to shampoo to instrument strings to plastic to charcoal to wallpaper to air filters: You can’t […]
