It's hard to believe April is already here. For many of you, calving season is complete. For others, you're anxiously awaiting for new calves to arrive. Either way, soon you'll all be preparing to move pairs out to pasture for summer grazing...

At our place, we have finished calving out the first-calf heifers and are getting into the rest of the cows. Calving season is certainly an interesting time of year. It has it's ups and downs, that's for sure. Even when you're tired and things...

In 2006, I competed in the National FFA Extemporaneous Speaking Contest. If you're not familiar with the contest, participants draw three topics with 30 minutes to prepare a five-minute speech on the topic of the student's choice. In my second...

Daughter, sister, wife, cook, housekeeper, chore help, cattle marketer, writer, speaker — these are my roles on a daily basis. Like so many of you, I wear many different hats throughout the day, some obviously more enjoyable than others...

I often speak with producer groups, and although I often feel like a broken record at times — I believe it's critically important to repeat this important message: the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, spending less...

"A coalition of 17 food industry groups has written to key leaders in Congress urging them to reject increased user fees to fund the Food Safety Modernization Act. The Food Safety Modernization Act was signed into law in January, and its...

The more I study animal rights activists, the more I'm convinced that they are willing to do anything and everything to achieve their goals of abolishing animal agriculture in this country and eliminating meat, dairy and eggs from the dinner...

The hot topic of the day is in Iowa where a bill has been passed in the House, "creating new criminal and civil penalties for anyone convicted of tampering or interfering with property associated with a livestock or crop operation. Supporters of...

I don't know much about Mark Bittman, food-opinion writer for the ...

In this land of plenty, I doubt that most of us spend much time in the day worrying about hungry Americans. The fact of the matter is that one in six kids goes hungry at night; that’s 12 million children! Sometimes the only decent meal a child...