Tag: producers

  • So God Made a Farmer

    Surely ya’ll remember Paul Harvey? He was a well-known radio broadcaster with a very distinguishable voice who was famous for his tagline, “The Rest of the Story.” In 1978, he was apparently a guest speaker at the 1978 National FFA Convention and he gave a speech called, ‘So God Made a Farmer’. A family friend emailed me…

  • 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…

  • $40 Million Dollars Has Vanished

    $40 Million Dollars Has Vanished

    Now that I have your attention…. Have you ever had the opportunity to sell your ranch for $40 million and then, overnight, that opportunity is gone, kaput, vanished?  Cattle producers in Australia’s Northern Territory know exactly what it feels like in light of the recent export ban resulting from a video of cattle being severely…

  • 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.…