Off the coast of India sits a small country that’s currently serving as the testing ground for the Columbo Declaration, a UN global campaign on Sustainable Nitrogen Management. In fact, that small country, Sri Lanka, is leading the world effort, with aims to reduce their nitrogen waste by half by 2030.

If you work in any industry about which the public isn’t well-educated, you know that in the absence of facts, people will try to find patterns or fill-in-the-blank themselves where they have knowledge gaps. Rarely does this end in any kind of positivity.

What these billionaire investors want you to believe is that they are being incredibly benevolent in their investments. They market their support of a sustainable and climate friendly agriculture as their gift to the world at large. They share stories of how innovation in agriculture will help eliminate world hunger and safeguard the planet for future generations. They speak of the building a better future by harnessing the technology and innovation of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Their marketing game is on point.

An issue dating back to the 1970s, the Klamath Basin Crisis continues to be a hot mess. For those of you who are not familiar with the area, the Klamath River is about 250 miles long, and stretches from southern Oregon and on into northern California. For years, this area has been in extreme distress as all those who depend upon it for its water are scrambling to decide how best to address this crisis. Farmers, Klamath Tribes members, conservationists, and many others are fighting to preserve the basin, but not everyone can agree on what issue takes priority.

You guys. I made the vegans real mad. I was just doing my thing, posting my videos on Facebook and YouTube, continuing to further my goal of educating humans about animal agriculture. As I usually say, I respect people’s choice to eat how they want to eat, live how they want to live, etc. I do not, nor do I wish to, actively seek out conflict with anyone who makes different choices than I do. However, that’s not always how everyone else chooses to go about life.

You just thought supply chain issues and vaccine shortages were for humans. Turns out my girls could be at risk due to a lack of vaccine supply, too. Lets say a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak took place while supply chain shortages are still in place, we could be looking at some serious issues for all livestock.

Some folks down in Arizona seem to really have a lack of understanding in regard to the law of unintended consequences.

Initiative Petition 13, a ballot initiative filed for the 2022 Oregon general election, would remove many of the current exemptions from Oregon’s animal cruelty laws against animal abuse, animal neglect, and animal sexual assault.

It’s been a minute, all right only four years, since we tackled the topic of CAFOs. Since the media and many influencers are quick to share how factory farms are detrimental to society, and in these same articles, they sometimes mention CAFOs, I believe it makes sense to dive a little deeper on the subject.

There are three types of milk pasteurization: high temp short time (HTST), which is the standard form of pasteurization for milk; ultra (UP); and ultra-high temperature (UHT).

There is a vast difference between your local humane society and the Humane Society of the United States, which you may know as HSUS.

Innovation is a common denominator in dairy farming regardless of herd size, farm-owner demographics, or geography. From a principle standpoint, perpetual innovation is one of the few consistencies in farming at all.