Category: Food & Agriculture Issues
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Summer Has Arrived – Does That Mean the Ranch Work Stops?
In May, we hauled our cows from our ranch to the summer grass that we lease so that our home pastures can rest and grow for haying. The cows will spend five months grazing on vast grass pastures while they gestate their soon-arriving baby calves. The ladies will come back to our ranch around the…
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Growing Grass and Planting Flowers for Ranch Sustainability
As a cattle rancher and sustainability advocate, I understand the harmony between preserving grasslands for my cattle while also helping maintain a healthy habitat for wildlife. For example, our ranch provides wildlife for deer, fox, several bird species, bees, snakes, rabbits and probably several other species I haven’t spied yet! Additionally, our ranch is on…
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Modern Cattle Ranching Isn’t Natural
The word “natural” inundates us from all angles. It shouts at us from food packaging, pharmacy aisles and even water bottles. In the marketing world, companies have made every effort to associate “natural” with “better” or “elite” but is that accurate? What about in farming and ranching? Is natural a.k.a. the way things happen in…
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Who Helps the Environment More: Cows or Oscar Winners?
I will be the first to admit I don’t have a lot in common with Joaquin Phoenix. Case in point, I will never: Win an Oscar Star in a Hollywood blockbuster Wear anything made by Stella McCartney Conversely, Joaquin Phoenix and I do have one major thing in common: we both passionately care about preserving…
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A Burger Won’t Negate an Airplane
Over the past decade, my bovine friends have started to receive a bad rap for releasing their bodily fumes into the air (apparently they are the only animals on the planet that belch – shame!). Many people have even gone so far as to blame our planet’s changing climate on cows, in an attempt to…