Social media butterflies? Get over it
"Have you seen this?" The Twitter direct message from John Blue of Truffle Media asked. "Indiana Fair Oaks Farm video." And it gave the...
We owe a debt to dogged journalists
Editor Susan Crowell salutes the gutsy reporters who earned the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, particularly Art Cullen of The Storm Lake Times, for his editorials that criticized agricultural leaders in Iowa.
Now there’s meat from a lab, not a cow
Cultured meat is being produced in a laboratory through cell replication, grown in vats much like the equipment used in breweries.
Hey, 2020, thanks for crazy highs and insane lows
Rebecca Miller stopped writing at one point this year. She started again, because she could take a breath long enough to put something down in written form.
US livestock and climate change: Searching for truth
Editor Susan Crowell takes a look at climate change and livestock emissions: fact and fiction. There are best practices from the US that would help other nations become more sustainable.
Banking on the beauty of barns
Winding through the hills of Harrison County earlier this month, I turned onto a road and immediately eased up on the gas pedal as a colorful painted quilt block on a barnside caught my eye.
Farm and Dairy: It takes a thief
True confessions: I'm a thief. I steal good ideas wherever I can find them. And hopefully, you're the beneficiary.
Pink slime push-back: Someone smarter, or more emotional, than me has to figure this...
Maybe the ag industry needs to listen more and talk less. Maybe we need to bring in more outsiders, and ask them, "what would a customer think about this?" We might have seen the pink slime push-back coming.
First place in the Hoard’s Dairyman contest? Give that man a block of cheese!
John Winchell is a rock star. Well, not a head-banging musician or Mick Jagger-like rock star, but a dairy rock star. And he's got...
Farmland documentary shows the truth: Farming is not easy
Editor Susan Crowell wants you to go to the movies. (Actually, she wants you to take a carload to the movies.) What's playing? 'Farmland.'
