Old Dogs, Old Tricks
Edmund went away for a long weekend, which meant I was on livestock duty and also that the animals weren’t on their best behavior. On Friday I was drinking my...
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Old Dogs, Old Tricks
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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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Spring is Here?
By Edmund Brown With snow flakes falling as I write this sentence, it sure doesn't feel like Spring at the moment. But yesterday I got slightly sun-pinked when I took...
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Food Chain Disruptions and Freakonomics
By Garth Brown I was included in last week’s episode of the Freakonomics podcast, titled “What Happens When Everyone Stays Home to Eat?” I very much enjoyed it, and I...
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I Couldn't Have Gone Far Without My Pants
By Garth Brown Alanna’s grandfather, Frank Rose, remains straight-backed and tall at ninety-two. When he knows he’s in the middle of a really good line about one of his many...
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Realistic Hope
By Garth Brown As I write this rain falls heavy on the pasture and runs down the windows, giving the yellow grass and the distant line of trees a vague...
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