5 Mins w/Chuck Jolley
Jolley: Five minutes with Jason Gronlund, Executive Chef for Hard Rock Café
There is a certain culture that permeates Hard Rock Café, from its restaurants through to corporate headquarters. It has a whole different attitude about itself; you’ll never mistake it for a quick-serve burger joint.
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Jolley: Five minutes with NCBA’s Burton Eller, the exit interview
If you’ve been in the business for more than 15 minutes, you know the name - Burton Eller. The just-retired Senior Vice President of Member Services and Industry Affairs with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Eller has played an important role in the way we do business today.
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Jolley: More About that controversial nSTEC statement by the USDA
The USDA dropped the other shoe, launched a cruise missile, and aimed a dagger at the heart of the meat industry when Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the ‘Big Six’ nSTECs would be labeled as adulterants, right up there with the O157:H7 bogeyman.
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Jolley: Five minutes with those six notorious STEC outlaws
On Monday morning, the USDA conducted a private teleconference to inform key meat industry personnel that on Tuesday morning they were going to add 6 E. coli ‘serotypes’ to a list of related pathogens that, until then, had only included one
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Jolley: Five Minutes with Dr. Travis Miller and the life and death of Texas agriculture
Well, it ain’t dead yet, but it has been mercilessly pounded by four seriously drought-ridden years during the first decade of the Twenty-First Century.
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Jolley: Five minutes with John Havens II and Gulfwest Company Ltd.
When you think “Middle East” you think of oil, sand, heat and wars. You don’t think “major target for American beef,” do you?
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Jolley: Five minutes with NCBA President Bill Donald and the ‘Controversy’
I’m sure everyone knows what the ‘controversy’ is by now. It’s been in all the papers as they used to say when there were papers.
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Jolley: Five Minutes with Dr. Kurt Vogel, ethics and animals
Kurt Vogel conducts seminars on animal welfare. He’s a cattle handling expert who learned his trade while a student at Colorado State University from the best – Temple Grandin.
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Jolley: Five minutes with USCA’s Jon Wooster and the Beef Checkoff
I might have been looking the wrong way in the run up to the 2011 Summer Conference. When I scheduled my trip to Orlando, I thought the internecine, damaging-or-injuring-participants-on-both-sides-of-the-conflict, financial battle between the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Cattlemen’s Beef Board was slowly being resolved.
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Jolley: Five minutes with incoming KLA President Frank Harper and GIPSA
Frank Harper's words left no doubt that KLA and NCBA members oppose “attempts to narrow the business options or limit the individual freedom of livestock producers to innovate in the management and marketing of their production.”
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Jolley: Five minutes with the AMI’s Dr. Betsy Booren and E. coli
For twenty years, the news about E. coli has been so thoroughly one-sided that the public probably thinks its last name is O157:H7.
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- Commentary: New rules un-COOL
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- TSCRA works with sale barns to catch Houston cattle thief
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early



