Today I want to link up with a group of Nebraska bloggers and they are each sharing why they started blogging and the reason their blog name is significant to them. There are many reasons I started this blog, but I decided to take a look back at my very first post. I want to […]
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Livestock ID/traceability important for export markets
When I was in Japan in July for the Nebraska corn-fed beef mission with the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF), we had the chance to visit a large and very nice supermarket. In that supermarket, it specifically partitioned out the different countries that the meat was from: U.S. beef in one section; Aussie beef right […]
Cows, combines and columbines…each part of agriculture
Growing up, my siblings and I all had a role on our ranch and had an interest in agriculture. Our first real view of it was helping raise bottle calves, fixing fence with dad (the real use for a golf bag!), checking on water tanks and moving cows. Then it moved on with 4-H, and then […]
Newly funded K-State animal-feed research facility
Way to go Cargill and K-State! Looks like an awesome opportunity for research. Cargill helps fund K-State animal-feed research facility – from MeatingPlace.com Cargill’s $500,000 grant to Kansas State University will help the school build a first-of-its-kind research facility to study food and feed safety issues facing the animal feed industry, the company announced Tuesday. The […]
