I have been reading Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma and thought it would be fun to have an online discussion about it.  If you haven’t started, you have a week so head to the nearest bookstore! I have been playing with the new google wave application and decided to give it a try next Wednesday night [...]

As noted in this blog, I am starting an Ag Book Club where there will be an online discussion on book criticizing modern agriculture.  In around mid-December there will be a discussion on Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma (tentative date and time is Wednesday, December 9th at 8pm ET).  (As a reminder, you can join the [...]

On yesterday’s post, I mentioned the idea of forming a book club in your community to discuss mainstream literature criticizing modern agriculture and discuss the misconceptions in the literature and how the agriculture community should address these misconceptions.  For those of you who are interested in this, I am starting an agriculture book club that [...]

Today I completed the Master’s of Beef Advocacy (“MBA”) Program from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (“NCBA”) funded by Beef Checkoff Dollars. I heard about the program through my activity in NCBA’s Young Producer’s Council (“YPC”). This blog isn’t necessarily about law or policy, but it is about advocacy. As we all know, the livestock [...]