Tag: producers
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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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Is Bigger Always Better When It Comes to Steak
Yes and no. image credit As Americans, we tend to think bigger is better. More value for the dollar. Efficiency. More for less. That mantra has led to increased farm efficiency, bigger cows and therefore bigger steaks to feed a growing, hungry population. But do Americans really want bigger steaks? A recent article on BEEF…
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Working Farmer Style!
and do the horse dance while you hum that song in your head. They are at it again! The Peterson Farm Brothers, who became wildly famous overnight for their parody I’m Farming and I Grow It have recently released their new song Farmer Style, a play on the popular hit Gangnam Style. Check it out…
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Consumer is a word
That I really don’t like. To me, it carries the same connotation as ‘educate’. We don’t need to ‘educate’ consumers, we need to engage, interact, talk to – anything but educate. And now I feel ‘consumer’ has joined the group of words that make me cringe when I hear them used during agvocate-speak. I don’t…
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Blessings in disguise – Thanksgiving 2011
It’s officially Thanksgiving Thursday in Australia – I spent my turkey day blood sampling hogs and sheep and for Thanksgiving dinner Ninja, the rest of the research team and I are having chicken and chips from a local shop. Not the classiest but it’s as close as I’m going to get to turkey and stuffing this…