Where does your favorite cut of steak come from? During my #BigSkyMove, I had the opportunity to visit Manhattan, Kansas, specifically my friends Brandon and Jodi Oleen. Jodi works for the Kansas Pork Association and Brandon with one of the Beef Cattle units at Kansas State University. Talk about house divided when it comes to … Continue reading #BigSkyMove: Manhattan Kansas serves up a great steak diagram
There are times when several things swirl together and the ideas that come out can be fun to watch. And of course some of those ideas can be stinkers too…. But let’s hope this one is really good. So let’s get to it! The “Big Idea” We have created four different Flat Ryan paper dolls. … Continue reading A New Series — The AgProud Adventures of Flat Ryan!
Bandita Jenny Dewey is a country girl at heart. Born and raised in Northern California and growing up in her parent’s butcher shop and deli, agriculture has always been a part of her life. She recently followed her heart to North Dakota where she is now engaged to a Sunflower farmer and … Continue reading North Dakota Agriculture from a Born and Raised California Girl
About the time this blog posts, I’ll be at the airport in Nashville, waiting on a Southwest Airlines flight to Kansas City, Missouri for the 2012 Agvocacy 2.0 Conference presented by the AgChat Foundation. This is a great meeting held to train farmers, ranchers, and others how to better utilize Social Media and online tools … Continue reading Road Trip to Kansas City: Missouri Agriculture Facts
Have you ever met a Sunflower Farmer? Well I have one for ya today! Mark Rohrich joins us today from North Dakota! He’s a great example of how farmers across the country maintain diversity in their operations. This is another part of my month-long series asking farmers, ranchers, and consumers why they are proud to … Continue reading AgProud: North Dakota Sunflower Farmer
You might be an #agnerd if… You look for facts about local agriculture each and every time you travel. Turns out I’m not the only one who showed up to this week’s conference with this interest. Resulting from a blog post from Janice Person, I joined several other farmers and ranchers across the country, and … Continue reading Agriculture Swap Meet – ACFC11 (Giveaway)
Since I just spent a few days in Nashville, I figured this would as good a time as any to share some agriculture facts from the state. It goes right along with my postcard project. I’m a big postcard junkie, so if you’d like to send me one from your state with a few facts … Continue reading Tennessee Agriculture
May marks 4 months that I have been working on my Stamps, States, and AgFacts project (collecting postcards from all 50 states while learn facts about each state’s Agriculture). So far I have collected postcards from 29 states and have learned a ton about this country’s Agriculture. Since I have passed the half-way point in … Continue reading Postcards and Ag Education
A big thank you to the folks at Farm Journal magazine for featuring my Stamps, States, and AgFacts project in this month’s Tailgate Talk. Tailgate Talk: Put a Stamp on Agriculture Education Collecting postcards has always been one of Ryan Goodman’s hobbies. Every time his family or friends traveled, the Arkansas rancher would ask them … Continue reading Tailgate Talk:Put a Stamp On Ag Education
Seeing as it is National Agriculture Week, thought I would share with ya’ll a little about Arkansas Agriculture. We may not be at the top of the lists for every sector of Agriculture, but I like to think we make an impact. When I ask what comes to mind when others think of Arkansas Agriculture, responses often … Continue reading Arkansas Agriculture
