The Future is Sheep
The Blackshirt Feeders cattle yard currently holds 50,000 head at full capacity, but when fully built out it will house four times that, which will make it the largest feedlot...
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The Future is Sheep
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Self-Driving Tractors, Self-Driving Sheep
In the garden tidy rows of onions stand in tidy rows, on the hill across the street the cows are grazing, and on the flats down past the hops barn...
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Spanakopita Meat Loaf Recipe
Years ago I worked in a restaurant that used spinach in a number of dishes, and I can still vividly recall the culinary legerdemain employed to extract the excess water....
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Is Green Lightning a Fraud?
If you missed my last post, it is a very brief, not at all technical primer on nitrogen fertilizer. Nitrogen cycle chart courtesy of wikicommons. There has always been a...
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Nitrogen Basics
Clover is an amazing plant. It can start growing as soon as the snow melts, and it can make its own fertilizer. Plants, we all learn in grade school, work...
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Flattening the Food Pyramid
Many mornings when I was young, on days when I didn’t have a good book and when I’d exhausted whatever outdated copy of the Philadelphia Inquirer happened to be floating...
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2026 Predictions Extravaganza
What will happen in the worlds of food, farming, and health? Making predictions as the new year begins can be fun, but it's important to write them down. Most of...
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Winter Attitudes
Lake effect snow occurs when water evaporating from the Great Lakes meets cold air blowing in from the west. Almost as soon as it rises it begins to precipitate into...
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Why are Cow Prices So High?
There’s something undeniably pleasurable about the conceit of a simple solution to a seemingly unsolvable problem. The werewolf cannot be harmed by normal weapons, but a single silver bullet fells...
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High Agency Man
Among the latest digital preoccupations is an obsession with agency, specifically, the value of being high agency. Both employees and bosses should be high agency. The most important thing you...
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The Purpose of Childhood
Education is the scrapple* of social programs: it can be exceptional, it’s usually acceptable, but when it goes wrong it’s a disaster. And like scrapple, once you start thinking about...
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Phone Bans are Just a Beginning
Pictured above: a couple sheep I saw on my recent vacation. They have nothing to do with this post, but I figure you all know what phones look like. When...
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