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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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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Ground vs Whole vs Grass Finished Beef
Ground Beef Basics Ground meat in general and ground beef in particular is a versatile, wonderful food. It works well as the center of a meal in something like hamburgers...
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Don't be Afraid of Food (Or Anything Else)
By Garth Brown I haven't posted a video for a month due mostly to technical difficulties. I filmed what's below at least a dozen times, which may in part explain...
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Dicamba - Worse than Roundup?
By Garth Brown Roundup is the trade name for glyphosate, the most heavily used herbicide in the United States. The main reason for its popularity is the existence of crops...
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