5 Mins w/Chuck Jolley
Jolley: Five Minutes With Steve Mulryan & How To Sell Beef Sin City Style
Trying to serve the glitz and glamour of high rollers in Las Vegas mixed with bargain-hunting tourists and everyone in between is a chore. Steve Mulryan makes his living selling beef in the middle of it all, trying for a product mix that satisfies all comers.
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Jolley: Five Minutes With NCBA’s Forrest Roberts & The New Order
The folks at NCBA had been chugging along for a couple of years with an
idea about a new governance structure. Lots of talk and a year or so of
planning went into a project that foretold of a major cutback in the
number of irons in the fire.
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Jolley: Five Minutes With The New Animal Disease Traceability Framework
A few years ago, when the USDA decided NAIS was a good idea, they put together a framework on how they thought it should look. It met with some pushback.
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Jolley: Five Minutes With U.S. Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS)
It’s the political season, again; time to wander the halls of the Washington ruling elite while carrying a lantern and searching for an honest man or woman. Once a small handful of the most resolute are gathered, the wheat must be separated from the chaff.
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Jolley: Five Minutes With John Munsell & A Trip To The Woodshed With The USDA
One day, a long, long time ago, Big John noticed something amiss. Contaminated meat was coming in the back door of his very small plant. “That’s not right,” he thought and called the authorities.
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Jolley: Five Minutes With Dee Likes, Executive VP, KLA, In Defense Of Conventional Beef Production
A few weeks ago, I interviewed retired newsman and current Kansas Cattleman Bill Kurtis about his grass fed beef venture. His comments riled up a large group of people in the cattle business and resulted in several hostile comments at the end of the column.
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Jolley: Five Minutes With GIPSA Administrator J. Dudley Butler
GIPSA, the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, is charged with overseeing the marketing of livestock, poultry, meat, cereals, oilseeds, and related agricultural products. It’s the group that’s responsible for insuring competitive trade practices in American agriculture.
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Jolley: Five Minutes With Dr. Michael Apley & The Anti-Antibiotics Bill
Dr. Michael Apley, DVM, PhD, DACVCP, Professor, Production Medicine/Clinical Pharmacology at Kansas State University has an impressive resume.
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Jolley: Five Minutes With Chef Michael Symon At The South Beach Wine & Food Festival
At some point a few weeks ago while the Miami South Beach Wine &
Food Festival was in full bloom and I was freezing in Chicago wishing
for a fast trip to the warmth of South Florida, someone asked, “Ever
thought your grandma was the only person left in America who prepared
beef tongue…and liked it?”
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Jolley: Five Minutes With Butch Mayfield & Drug Terrorism Along Our Southern Border
Rob Krentz was murdered. Let’s call that statement an unpublished headline. If it had happened in New York, Chicago or Kansas City, it would have been dismissed as yet another drug related tragedy meriting nothing more than a short story on page 4 of the local newspaper, maybe a quick mention on the six o’clock news.
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Jolley: Five Minutes With Bill Kurtis And Government Subsidies For Grass-Fed Beef
Bill Kurtis is the most famous proponent of an all natural diet. Using
the fame and fortune he gleaned from decades as a newscaster and a
voice second only to Walter Cronkite’s in its gravitas, he’s thumped
the natural foods tub ever since he bought the Red Buffalo Ranch in the
Flint Hills of his native Kansas.
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- Producers should examine pastures for post-tornado debris
- Ag markets posted a general advance mid-day Wednesday
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- TSCRA works with sale barns to catch Houston cattle thief
- Mexico says U.S. not respecting WTO ruling on meat labeling
- Vance Publishing's 40 under 40
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
- Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
- Drought losses in Oklahoma top $400 million for 2012
- Survey reveals most Americans in favor of COOL
