Tag: animals

  • Wine Fed Beef

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    Another niche market has popped up in the beef industry – wine fed beef.  Canada is trying to produce the equivalent of Japanese Kobe beef by supplementing red wine from the Okanagan valley to the normal feedlot ration.  Cattle are fed this combination for the last 90 days before being harvested – feedlot owner Bill…

  • Less Talky Talky

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    Temple Grandin, in her book “Animals in Translation“, talks about a government program in the 1960’s that eradicated screwworms.  If you don’t know what a screwworm is take a look.  They are the larvae of a fly that lays its egg in the wounds, cuts, bites and scratches of animals.  After they hatch, the maggots come…

  • These Boots…..

    These Boots…..

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    I love Eric Church.  I love his voice, I love his music and I’d love it if he were my arm candy (not all the time, just temporarily).  Last night I went to a FREE and amazing Eric Church concert in the Power & Light district in Kansas City. One of Eric’s hits is a song called “These Boots.”…

  • Pork Done Right

    Pork Done Right

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    So there I was, strolling through the parking lot of Weber Hall when I saw it.  A bumper sticker. Not just any bumper sticker, no no – this bumper sticker was special. Why? Well because obviously it became the subject of this post – gotcha  🙂 I don’t know who drives the Chevy S-10 that…

  • Care, Not Cash

    Care, Not Cash

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    I’ve raised horses and livestock my entire life.  From horses to goats, sheep to swine – I’ve fed, watered, doctored, been frustrated by and been trampled on by all of them.  Why do I, and thousand of other young livestock men and women, put so much time, sweat, blood, tears and care towards our animals and their lives?…