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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Digital Hostages and Healthy Food
For a brief moment last year food security became a topic of mainstream interest. COVID and its fallout had an impact on every aspect of the economy, but it was...
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Big Ag Is Not Best
A recent article in Foreign Policy praising industrial caught my attention. (Big Agriculture Is Best by Ted Norhaus and Dan Blaustei-Rejto.) What I noticed was not the list of points...
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What Can You Do With 20 Tons of Broccoli?
Gazing upon the forty-two thousand pounds of broccoli that is currently sitting in palletized stacks of boxes down by my driveway raises some questions: questions about the intricate supply chain...
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I Can't Know Much
One of the particular joys of this spring has been the return of visitors. Over the past month a steady flow of grandparents has passed through the farm, and as...
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What Epicurious Gets Wrong About Beef
Website Epicurious recently announced that it will no longer be publishing recipes featuring beef. The statement itself is so milquetoast that, despite my best efforts, I have not been able...
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We'd Get Bored of Pterodactyls
The commonplace is easy to take for granted. For example, I imagine that I would be thrown into an endless state of rapturous wonder if I saw a pterodactyl flapping...
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How to Cook Grass Fed Steak
The Basics of Grass Fed Steak There’s an idea floating around that grass fed beef is fundamentally different from grain fed. And it’s true that well raised grass-fed beef does...
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The Ugly Fight Between Organic and Regenerative Farming
When it comes to agriculture ‘organic’ and ‘regenerative’ are two words that should mean the same thing. Both conjure pictures of green pastures dotted with contented sheep, clean air, crisp...
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In Defense of Pettiness
I have recently suffered a devastating blow. I like to think of myself as stoic, as someone who calmly accepts the difficulties that are an inevitable part of being alive....
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Can Farms Care For Workers?
By Garth Brown In last week's newsletter I linked to an article that discussed the mysterious circumstances in which New York agricultural workers were excluded from early vaccine eligibility, contrary...
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The Brief and Beautiful Lives of Dogs
By Garth Brown One wonderful thing about my dog Oban is that he didn’t notice that I forgot his seventh birthday last month. Of course, he forgot it too, and...
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Spring Comes Too Early
By Garth Brown On a happy farm animals rarely go through fences. Ideally, fences keep animals where they should best be at a particular time for their own health and...
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The Bernie Madoff of Beef
By Garth Brown An early but strong contender for the craziest ag story of the year comes from Washington state, where Easterday ranch has been accused of inventing 200,000 cows...
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