I found my husband’s grandmother’s cookbook recently that her church put together in 1982 and there look to be some great recipes. I love looking through older recipes – many the same you find in more modern cookbooks or online today – and many with ingredients that are hard to find in today’s stores. Can […]
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#AgCensus data shows who we are, what we produce
USDA released their final 2012 #AgCensus results yesterday and included some great infographics on the current status of American agriculture. Some interesting points that I pulled out: The average age of farm operators is 58, yet 22% of all farmers in the U.S. were beginning farmers in 2012. I’m pretty impressed by the number of […]
So God Made a Farmer…extended!
It’s almost Super Bowl time. I posted mid-Super Bowl last year about my favorite commercial – you know the one, Ram Trucks’ So God Made a Farmer commercial?! Well, I just received word that Ram Trucks put together an extended version of the wildly popular “Farmer” commercial and was just released as part of their […]
Farming the future of agriculture – today on the RamZone blog
Today, I’m fortunate enough to be featured again over on the RamZone blog talking about the next generation in agriculture. I dedicated this post to my favorite rancher… my dad. Who also happens to be an avid baseball fan. Farmers and ranchers like my dad love what they do because if fulfills the drive they […]
The future of agriculture
I’ve been away from the Ag on the Forefront blog for awhile because my husband and I welcomed our son, Chisum Marshall, into our family on September 9! We’re pretty excited for this new miracle in our lives. I will be sharing numerous Chisum stories on my family blog, but while I was cuddling with […]
HSUS and #aggag bills
I subscribe to the Humane Society of the U.S.’s email blasts – mostly just to watch what they are saying. Like when they tried talking about saving coyotes and free-range chickens in the same sentence!? That one made me laugh. Anyways, most of them I just glaze over, but yesterday’s email brought out my inner […]
Food: A Farmer Isn’t a Farmer Without It – today on the RamZone blog
Food—it’s something that we think about, plan for and consume every day. But that simple word—food—has so much behind it. I love that we have so many movements around food in our American culture today. I love that I can grow my own veggies in my backyard garden or buy them from the grocery store […]
Local meat
“Locally produced” is one of the hottest terms in the food business today, according to an article posted recently on CattleNetwork. I’ve discussed “local” before with expanding our definitions of local, food trends and even “big beef”. But I guess I’ve never really defined (on the blog) my own definition of “local”. Local to Me: […]
FOOD: Transforming the American Table
One of the sites I was most looking forward to while in Washington, D.C. over the Memorial Day weekend was the FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950–2000 exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. I had read about this exhibit from an ag blog (which I should have noted and cannot find now) […]
Puppets of the weather – today on the RamZone blog
Farmers are like puppets manipulated by Mother Nature – the puppeteer of weather changes. While it’s necessary to follow her course to produce the food to feed our world– it’s not always easy. This year’s weather has been especially challenging for farmers – but the hard-working nature of all of the farmers I know proves […]
