Category: Food & Agriculture Issues
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Help Iowa Farmers Devastated by the Derecho – Donation List
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last week, you’ve likely heard about the Iowa derecho. A derecho (pronounced du-ray-cho) is a line of intense, widespread, and fast-moving windstorms and sometimes thunderstorms that moves across a great distance and is characterized by damaging winds. Reports from Iowa say that the winds reached 100 mph…
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Big or Small, Support Them All
I borrowed that title from a breast cancer awareness campaign I helped with in college. Our Collegiate Cattlewomen group at Kansas State University designed and sold t-shirts every October to raise money for breast cancer research and support. One year, the t-shirt said “Big or Small, Let’s Save Them All!” and I think that’s a…
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Debunking the Biggest Myths About Raising Beef Cattle
I think it’s highly important to know how our food is produced and that includes knowing how it was planted, bred, raised, harvested, processed and prepared. Knowledge is power and during these days of conspiracy theories, social media bots and “fake news,” it’s important to have confidence in the facts that are being presented. Confidence…
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Controlling the Summer Bugs and Bacteria
I would love to say our cattle never get sick, but unfortunately, that’s not the truth. Just like cats, dogs, hamsters and humans, cattle have biological systems that can be disrupted by bacteria and viruses. The truth is, even outside the normal “cold and flu season” for cattle, we have animals that contract an illness…
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Dear Burger King: I’m a Cattle Rancher and I’m Not Mad, But Can We Talk?
Dear Mr. Burger King (or should I call you King Burger?), I’m a cattle rancher and although I probably have ample reason to be offended and mad, I’m not here to boycott or cancel your burger chain. However, I saw a few things in a recent commercial that did give me pause. Can we chat…