Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
In business, success and growth are generally synonymous. There’s a generalized feeling that if something isn’t growing it is dying. Think of Amazon, which lost money for nine consecutive years...
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Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
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Will Roombas Replace Cows?
By Garth Brown As a child I loved looking at pictures of Rube Goldberg machines. In case you’re unfamiliar with the concept, these are fanciful mechanisms that accomplish a simple...
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Don't Put Your Trust in Brands
By Garth Brown Can you guess what Panorama Grass-Fed Meats, Niman Ranch, Coleman Natural, Sonoma Red and now Pasturebird have in common? Given their names it would be natural to...
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The Trouble With Phones
By Garth Brown I intended to write and post this last week, but an intense storm blew through and knocked out our power, along with quite a few trees. Luckily,...
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How To Fight Genetic Editing
By Garth Brown This is the third post in a series. It should stand on its own, but for the full context read here and here. The recent history of...
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Movie Review: The Social Dilemma
By Garth Brown Note: My post last week discussed a new genetic editing technique that will likely soon be coming to a farm animal near you. I do intend to...
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What is Genetic Editing and is it a Problem?
By Garth Brown There’s been a recent advance in genetic manipulation that has big implications for livestock. The process is reasonably straightforward, but a theoretical example can help to explain...
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Agriculture's Example and GPT-3
By Garth Brown An AI program with a remarkable facility for language has been making news lately. Though some of the excitement around GPT-3 is certainly excessive (read its attempts...
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Hired Hands
By Garth Brown When I first moved to this farm a small cottage still stood off by itself in the pasture across the street from the dairy barn. It had...
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Rotational Grazing Hardware
By Edmund Brown Two weeks ago I mentioned rotational grazing. I thought this week perhaps it would be interesting to show all the hardware I use to keep the cows...
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Cows vs. Wildfires
By Garth Brown An excellent article in The Counter examines the conflict over whether grazing cattle could decrease fires on western rangelands. Proponents say cows could help by removing excess...
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Farming Isn't Bad Enough
By Garth Brown In the public imagination (at least, in my imagined version of the public imagination) farming remains a bucolic activity, consisting of crickets chirping over a field of...
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COVID and the Future of Agriculture
By Garth Brown It’s far too early to say what the long term impact of the coronavirus will be on farming. The industrial food system has failed in obvious ways,...
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Shut Down The Agribusiness Meat Packers
By Garth Brown On April 26th Tyson Foods ran a full-page ad in several papers, including the New York Times, warning that the “food supply chain is breaking.” This is...
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