Some of you may have heard about the recent Stonyfield Farm ad campaign. Some of you may not. So here’s a quick update to bring you up to speed. Stonyfield Farm, an organic dairy based in Londonderry, New Hampshire, recently ran an ad with young girls that ran through a series of loaded concerns, in an attempt to create fear
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Everyday I watch this man pull out of our driveway. Everyday I worry what the day might hold. I worry that the wind blew too hard during the night. I worry the storm we got the evening before rained where we didn't need it and left the other parched fields starving for a drink. I worry today will be a good day and then the next three will be terrible. I worry he feels more defeat than he does triumph...
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If you grew up anywhere near an agricultural community, you most likely heard the loud buzz of a crop duster flying a near-by field. Back and forth, pass by pass, applying nutrients or protection to resources that would one day be on your dinner table. It is often an industry that is criticized due to misinformation or overlooked, even though
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New Grassroots Super PAC is launched, gaining momentum.
The regulatory persecution of the hard-working men and women who grow the food we eat and fiber for the clothes we wear, has been ongoing by politicians, unelected bureaucrats, and the radical environmental community in California for decades.
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Today's dairy cows are far more comfortable and productive than they used to be. Dairymen strive to offer similar comforts to cows as cities offer to humans, yet the unfortunate thing is we get lambasted by society for it.
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In September of 2013 I was invited to speak to a group of farmers in Longmont, Colorado. They were curious about the imminent GMO labeling rules, the most recent threat to their freedom to operate as agricultural producers in Boulder County, a county where an affluent urban center increasingly meddles in the policies that affect rural families. The county harbors
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If your tire has a leak, is filling it with air every morning going to fix the underlying problem?
If your home has termites would it be wise to spend money on fixing the damaged wood before exterminating them?
Sometimes I feel that those who sit on the State Water Resources Control Board would be the ones filling their tires and paying carpenters to continually fix their homes. For the life of me, when do RESULTS matter?
This State Water Board needs to go. They have proven to be a failure by every...
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I grew up on the family dairy, but when I was in high school I worked at a sporting goods store because I've really never been fond of working with cattle. I figured that a life in the "business" world was going to be better for me. After graduating high school I planned to study business
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PETA says these stanchions are referred to by the industry as a "rape rack" but the truth is that only animal activists refer to stanchions in that way. Let's talk about what stanchions are really all about.
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Did you know?
81% of the entire world's almonds, 100% of the U.S commercial supply, are grown right here in California. The Central Valley has the optimum climate; you can't go over the mountains to the coast or too far north or south.
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