http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features RSS Feed for Cattle Features en-us Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:15:21 GMT http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features/Jolley-Five-Minutes-with-EWG-and-the-invasion-of-superbugs-204860481.html If you’ve ever driven across Kansas or ventured very far to the East of Oakland, Calif., you’ve seen those giant wind farms; acres and acres of huge wind turbines cranking out gigawatts of electricity when the wind blows. The hills near the Inland Empire and the flatlands of central Kansas rarely lack for a freshening breeze. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features/Jolley-5-Minutes-with-Matt-Liebman-and-sustainable-agriculture-202598121.html Iowa State’s Dr. Matt Liebman is a professor of agronomy and holds the Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture. He studied biological sciences at Harvard University and earned his Ph.D. in botany from the University of California-Berkeley. At ISU, he focuses on how to use ecology to maintain or increase agricultural production while reducing dependence on chemicals and fossil fuels. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features/Jolley-Five-minutes-with-Scott-George-NCBAs-new-president-200595731.html I can think of few things more exciting and, at the same time, more frustrating than being elected to head up the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Seems like most of the past presidents I’ve talked with start off their term with unbounded enthusiasm. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features/Jolley-5-minutes-with-Clay-Pope-and-the-magic-of-YouTube-198438241.html I didn’t see Clay Pope’s heart-to-heart with President Obama when it was first posted on YouTube. I discovered the now famous video when I read Timothy Egan’s New York Times Opinionator Blog last week. The title, “Hix Nix Climate Fix,” offended me but it was a clever re-use of one of the most famous headlines in newspaper history. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features/Jolley-Five-minutes-with-sequestering-the-meat-industry-191402861.html Sequestration is an ugly specter that has been haunting us for months like a hoard of brain dead zombies. No matter what is said about the dangers of sequestration or the noble but empty pronouncements by our elected officials, it just won’t die. It just keeps slowly walking toward the federal check book threatening to devour everything in its path. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features/Jolley-Five-Minutes-with-Michele-Payn-Knoper-and-the-food-fight--188392851.html The public has been reciting a ridiculous litany of late. The words have been written by “Food, Inc. Foodopoly. Fast Food Nation. The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Meatrix. Super Size Me.” The message is consistent; food is generally bad for you and agriculture is the enabler. Farm animals are almost always abused and the food we grow is merely processed to make us fat. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features/Jolley-Five-minutes-with-Rick-Berman-defending-the-CCF-185686642.html Shortly after my interview with Wayne Pacelle appeared, I received an email message from Allison Miller, Senior Media associate for the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF). http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features/Jolley-Five-minutes-with-Wayne-Pacelle-and-HumaneWatch-183412221.html There are two organizations that never back down from a fight: The Humane Society of the United States and HumaneWatch. Of course the entire reason for the existence of that second group is to keep an eye on the first group. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features/Jolley-Five-Minutes-again-with-Steve-Kay-181539361.html It’s an annual event – a year-end discussion with Steve Kay about the state of the industry. Steve has been editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly for a quarter century. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/cattle-features/Jolley-Defending-modern-agriculture-175845881.html A few days ago I was watching an interesting commercial on TV. An old farmer standing out in a field somewhere in the Midwest was reminiscing about the joys of life in rural America. In the background, a large combine was slowly doing its work.