Category Archives: Current Events
How you can help the farm families affected by the Oklahoma tornadoes
Like many of you, my thoughts and prayers have been with the families whose lives were literally uprooted by the devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma on Monday. I can not imagine what it must be like to lose your home, neighborhood … Continue reading
National Pork Month Harned’s Drive-In Hot Sauce Giveaway!
To say my world revolves around pork would be an understatement. I grew up on a family show pig farm and married into a 4th generation family pork bar-b-q restaurant. Needless to say, pork month is something to celebrate in … Continue reading
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Country Music’s Royal Wedding: Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton
So here’s a big thanks to Blake and Miranda for being PETA hating, deer hunting, meat loving country folks who support America’s family farmers! Continue reading
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Tagged Blake Shelton, Cause for the Paws, CMT, country music, country wedding, Miranda Lambert, MuttNation, wedding
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Do those shooting animal abuse videos really show mercy for the animals?
Yesterday, vegan extremist group Mercy for Animals released a video of animal abuse at a dairy farm in Texas. As a beef producer, I am outraged that anyone would treat a calf in such a horrible way. My entire life … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Current Events, Farm Life
Tagged animal abuse, animal rights, beef, cattle, dairy abuse, E6 Calf Ranch, factory farm, family farm, farm, Mercy for Animals, MFA, vegan, vegetarian
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Ky FFA members use YouTube to tell farmers’ stories
You’re never too young to start teaching people about agriculture. That’s why the Kentucky FFA Association and the Kentucky Livestock Coalition teamed up to create the Kentucky Farmers Care Video Contest. As FFA members, these high school students are accustomed … Continue reading
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Investigating Agriculture from Farm to Fork
As a part of the Fleischaker-Greene Scholars program, 11 Western Kentucky University journalism students spent their spring semester investigating agriculture. The hours were long, the issues were complex and the end result was Farm to Fork: an online magazine that … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, beef, family farm, farm, farm to fork, farming, FG Scholars, j school, journalism, organic, pork, wku
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WKU: Promoting Agriculture Misconceptions Daily
Normally, I would hold my tongue. Normally, I would cut them some slack, laugh it off, and go on with life pretending that whoever it was had not just made some ridiculous agriculture illiterate mistake. This is an exception. When I … Continue reading
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Tagged ag journalism, agriculture, Agriculture, agriculture journalism, farm, farming, H1N1, journalism, swine flu, western kentucky university, wku
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Hurting American farmers isn’t enough, COOL takes a stab at Canada’s too
In theory, it was a great idea: print the country of origin on all meat products and perishable agricultural commodities. They even came up with a catchy acronym: COOL (Country of Origin Labeling). Consumer lobbyists were happy, politicians were happy, and … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Agriculture, canada, COOL, Country of Origin Labeling, farm, farming, pork, pork producers
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