Day In Farm Life: Off-Farm Perspective
As a part of my Day In Farm Life Series, I’ve been sharing thoughts from individual farmers. However, there’s so much more behind-the-scenes work that is done to convey the message to consumers. Madeline McCurry-Schmidt is a journalist for a group of scientists and researchers that promotes livestock and meat science. These peer-reviewed studies provide […]
Day in Farm Life: Central Nebraska
As part of my Day in Farm Life Series, today Bobbi Lorenz from Nebraska shares a bit about her life. Bobbi and her husband Mark are Nebraska ranchers raising cattle, corn, and hay. Be sure to read the entire post. Bobbi does a great job of sharing how tough some days can be while caring […]
Road Trip! Packing 101 With Tosh
Oh geeze, I may be in for it this time. After attempting to pack for a 3 day trip to Nashville, I decided to enlist my sister’s advice (Twitter) for my week long trip to Colorado. It’s a difficult task for someone who’s never taken a flight for more than a two day trip. And […]
Better Blogging: Participation Required
This is a portion of an email I received from an admin at Blog Farm (a site used to grow my blogs) and I thought it fit perfectly into my Better Blogging series. Be sure to read this through, enact upon it, and next week I’ll share how I did something similar a few weeks ago. […]
Armyworms Impact Southern Pastures
This month you begin seeing ranchers scouting the fields (rather what’s left of them), or even on their knees with hands in the grass. Other than praying for rain, we’re looking for an army of caterpillars. These are not your average young butterfly, but rather, as a group, these worms can wipe out pastures in […]
Dairy Farming Requires Passion
To change things up a little bit, today I host a guest post from a graduate student, dairy farm kid, and agriculture advocate from Minnesota. Farming and ranching in general, require much patience, passion, and hard work. Once ya grow up on a farm, it’s impossible to leave those experiences behind. Even though so many […]
Why Am I Mowing Pastures: Part 2
Why do livestock producers mow pastures? As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, today I’ll let Jesse Bussard, a graduate student at Kentucky, do a little explaining of cleaning pastures from a forage perspective. Thanks Jesse for helping out! I was posed the question, “Why do we brush hog (mow) pastures?” by Ryan this past week. If […]
I eat. You farm. So what? – Cause Matters
I’m often struggle with making the non-ag translation when talking about ranch life. Sometimes it has a lot to do with opportunity. So I thought this post from Cause Matters would be a good example of a conversation between a consumer and farmer in a grocery story. Some times as farmers and ranchers we have […]