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, […]
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May is Beef Month
Some of you might recognize this voice. I put this video together for the Nebraska Corn Board to celebrate Beef Month. Enjoy and eat a steak!
Review explores beef, shares accomplishments
Today, the Masters of Beef Advocacy Alumni Association sent out a report, marking the release of “The Cattlemen’s Stewardship Review: Connecting Our Vision and Values,” a comprehensive look at the beef industry’s influence on communities, the economy, public health and the environment. This review was developed with the goal of bridging the knowledge gap between producer and consumers, and […]
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 […]
Why does the HSUS hate agriculture and what can be done?
**I wrote this post for the Nebraska Corn Kernels blog, but wanted to share here as well. Martosko is a great advocate for animal agriculture and knows his stuff about HSUS!** The 6th Annual Nebraska Ag Classic was held in Kearney this week to help understand the growing challenges the agriculture industry is facing. The main discussion […]
How does livestock in the media affect consumer purchasing decisions?
I read this interesting article in the Midwest Ag Journal titled, “Consumers spend less on meat when livestock is in the media”. Researchers from K-State and Purdue suggest that publicity of the livestock industry has had a negative impact on consumer demand. Their research assumes that public information will influence consumer perceptions of meat product […]
“Buzzwords” in Agriculture
I was reading through NAMA‘s AgriMarketing Magazine at work and found this article written by Brandon Souza of AgCareers.com about buzzwords in agriculture. I realized that some of these words and terms are thrown around a lot and to the average consumer/person, they may not know what it means. Brandon did a good job of […]
What to tell environmental activists about agriculture…
The next time an environmental activist, or even just a curious consumer, asks you about the greenhouse gas emissions from modern production agriculture, direct them to this study, conducted by Stanford University. The study reviewed how the advances in high-yield agriculture achieved during the so-called Green Revolution have not only helped feed the planet, but […]
