We brought the five-year-old and ten-year-old ribeyes home to Arkansas for a taste test. Friends, Back in February I told you our beef tested at 1.88 to 1 on the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, and that "grass-fed" on a shelf can mean...
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Friends, Here's a math problem nobody can solve. America has its fewest cattle in 75 years. Beef demand is the strongest it's been in decades. And cattle prices just crashed to their lowest point of the year. That's not supposed...
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By now you've probably checked your fridge for that recalled lettuce. It got surreal enough that The New Yorker ran a real headline: "Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea." And that recall is just the latest symptom. Our...
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How do you balance traditions, a respect and a reverence for "the way it's always been done," with new ideas and new technology? It's been a question I've been mulling on this week in particular. Part of it stems from...
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Last night, my thirteen-year-old brought 75 first-calf heifers in from the pasture by herself. And last week, the two of us gathered 220 cows and calves across 300 acres of complicated Montana rangeland on horseback, and I couldn’t have done...
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