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Note from Lara: I wrote this blog post for Agriculture.com, the website of Successful Farming magazine and it is being reprinted here with permission. A friend of mine shared a very interesting read with me this week from Eater.com, entitled “I Went to Monsanto’s Controversial Journalism Bootcamp.” It’s about an agriculture reporter’s experiences when attending […] Read more…
The time has come, people, and I’m so excited! If you are a farm/ag blogger who would like to join the 2015 Christmas in the Country Gift Exchange, you can do so beginning today. Okay, so there are some instructions/rules to read and follow – all for the good of the gift exchange. 🙂 By […] Read more…
As I sit here tonight, it’s about 39 degrees and super windy … but it’s not snowing, so for that I lift my Thursday night wine glass in cheers! Now just to be clear, I love this time of year – and of course, my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving, is in just two weeks (whaaat?)! But If […] Read more…
Instead of a recipe today (I know, sorry!), I want to share a key piece of information heading into the Thanksgiving season: there is no turkey shortage for Thanksgiving this year. Seriously. Yes, it’s true there was a terrible outbreak of avian flu that caused the death of millions of turkeys, especially in Minnesota – the […] Read more…
Subway clarified its antibiotics in meat policy on Friday, in case you haven’t heard. I’m glad for that because Subway is an important market for poultry – and certainly for turkey deli meat specifically. According to Feedstuffs magazine, here is the clarification: On its website, the company said the goal is to reduce and eliminate the […] Read more…
I’m struggling a bit to gauge my reactions to the Subway announcement this week that essentially toughened the chain’s stance on antibiotic use in food animals. Starting in 2016, Subway will only serve meat never treated with antibiotics. And as Watt Poultry noted here, this comes a month or so after the chain got a failing grade […] Read more…
It’s been over four months since the last case of highly-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) hit Minnesota’s poultry farmers. Since that time, our office (the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association) has been, in many ways, busier than it was during the crisis when our goal was to make sure our growers had the information they needed each day. […] Read more…
I’m going to admit something to you. Growing up, my family didn’t seem like we were really a “State Fair” kind of family. We didn’t go every year. We weren’t in 4-H so we didn’t have anything to show. We didn’t really miss the fair if we didn’t go. In Minnesota, this seems like a dangerous […] Read more…