Tomorrow I will be voting for my values and for agriculture. Are you ready to vote? I haven’t found any sources better than the National Corn Growers Association’s nonpartisan survey responses submitted by President Obama and Governor Romney. The information provided by both candidates is meant to help interested voters gain information on the issues […]
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We need a farm bill
I am a food consumer and I am a farmer. The 2012 Farm Bill is important to not only those who farm but those who eat! The current Farm Bill will expire this year. As a group, Congress has yet to pass a Farm Bill. Although a version has been passed by the Senate, a […]
Africa 4 ag?
Africa has been the “talk of the shop” amongst my ag industry counterparts. After all – if we are going to feed 9 billion people by 2050 – where are we going to produce all of this food? I read a great article by Andy Vance in Feedstuffs (8/12/12) on developing ag in Africa and […]
Today’s Agriculture
Modern agriculture. Kind of hard to really “show” all of modern agriculture and the new technology farmers & ranchers use in a fair/trade show type of setting. But Pennsylvania did it. At the 2012 Pennsylvania Farm Show, the “Today’s Agriculture” exhibit put together an “experience” – an innovative display that brings the farm to families. […]
Wrap it up and move on | 2011 & 2012
As we wrap up 2011 and look what may happen in agriculture in 2012, I wanted to share a few excerpts I read on Corn & Soybean Digest online by David Kohl and Kent Thiesse. 2011 Year in Review by Kohl: Interconnectedness and convergence In the early part of 2011, it appeared that the U.S. […]
Know a {California} farmer
“Get to know your food, flowers, and fiber by getting to know the people behind them. Meet the real farmers and ranchers from across California who grow things that make life possible.” I wish every state had a website like California does. Have you checked out http://www.knowacaliforniafarmer.com/? It’s an amazing site with 180 videos of […]
More #agblogs…
Here’s more to my list of favorite ag bloggers that I want to suggest to other readers. Lori @ Grain Girl blog has a great series on Urban Legends. This last one was on Factory Farms and she did a great on about Michael Pollan. Ryan @ Sitting in the Pasture blog – or some […]
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 […]
Signs of spring
There is a sign of spring out there! We were in Manhattan, KS this weekend and I got to see more green than there is in Nebraska. These two pictures were taken about two months apart in approximately the same area. Here are more “green” photos of the Pope family farm! […]
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, […]
