Tag: economics

  • If You’re Wasting, You Shouldn’t Be Whinging

    If You’re Wasting, You Shouldn’t Be Whinging

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    There’s a little bit of Australian vocab for you – whinging means to whine, complain, protest, etc. Didn’t know you were going to learn about food wastage and vocab today, did you? Anyhow, several factors led to this blog post – first, there was this article from Drover’s. I’ll be sort-of summarizing it so if…

  • Flinchbaugh-isms

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    If you’ve been involved at any level with ag policy or follow K-State media streams, you’ve no doubt heard of THE Dr. Barry Flinchbaugh. The man is a living legend – he’s been an agriculture economics professor at Kansas State University for over 40 years and his ag policy class fills up within the first…

  • ILC 2011 – Calgary

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    Hello all! It’s me – Buzzard. You’ve probably forgotten who I am since I haven’t blogged in almost a month. Cripes. So take this as my sincere apology for sucking at blogging. Ok – moving on. Last week I had the amazing opportunity to attend the International Livestock Congress in Calgary, AB, Canada. Myself and…

  • Bridging the science gap

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    It’s very hard to translate science based publications and information into easy to read, succinct information for producers and consumers.  I know this because I write scientifically by day and blog using regular English by night.  Two different languages saying the same thing – preserve and protect agriculture.  However, occasionally (yet not often enough) the language barrier…