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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Every morning right now, I'm walking into a pasture eye-to-eye with a 1,200-pound mama who's not entirely sure I should be that close to her calf. I'm tagging. She's watching. Sometimes she lets me work. Sometimes she takes two steps...
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I'm 1,500 miles from home, 22 days into helping an 8,000-acre ranch in Montana transition to the next generation. The scale is something I'm still adjusting to. A couple days ago I turned 250 cows out on an 858-acre pasture. A...
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I've spent a year showing you how a handful of corporations captured our food system. This week, I get to write about one of the best ideas I've seen for actually taking it back. Last Tuesday, a $45 billion deal put Hellmann's,...
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