Tag: livestock production

  • Delving Further into Antibiotic Use

    Happy Monday! As a brief follow up to this post, I found a podcast about antibiotic use in food animals from the AVMA media website. In this podcast, Dr. Scott Hurd, an associate professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine at Iowa State University, discusses quantitative risk assessments of antibiotic resistance in humans. He does…

  • Antibiotics Safe for Livestock Use

    Antibiotics Safe for Livestock Use

    Just like we’ve been sayin’ all along… The Government Accountability Office released a report that stated there isn’t sufficient evidence  to warrant a study into a link between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in humans. Did you get that? Here, I’ll say it again. GAO said “these data [collected by USDA] lack crucial details necessary…

  • Dr. Grandin Visits NW Ohio

    As you know, I’m a pretty big fan of Temple Grandin; evidenced here, here and here. About 3 weeks ago, Temple visited Ohio for the Northwest Ohio Autism Summit in Bowling Green. The night before, she visited a farm in Cygnet, Ohio to talk to producers and consumers — while there she held an animal…

  • Earth Day is NOT Every Day!

    Earth Day is NOT Every Day!

    It’s that time of the year again when we all resolve to recycle more, consume fewer non-renewables and to ride our bikes to work. Yes, it’s Earth Day and the media storm leading up to now has been full of “Every day is Earth Day for farmers and ranchers” messages on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.…

  • Can You Spot the Feedlot Beef Producer?

    Can You Spot the Feedlot Beef Producer?

    I am in the midst of compiling a master list of agricultural information and agvocacy videos to be posted on this blog as a separate page so that they’re easy to find for anyone who may be looking. This undertaking has entailed many hours of asking fellow agvocates for their favorite videos and conducting a…