Chuck Jolley

Meat industry associations quick to attack the new MCOOL rule
05/23/2013 4:07:32 PM
Jeremy Russell, NAMA directory of communications and government relations, said, “This Final Rule is not significantly different from the Proposed Rule. It will exacerbate costs, particularly for independent packers that need to commingle animals to run their plants near capacity. FULL STORY »

Jolley: A talk with Texas CBB member Dave Edmiston
05/20/2013 2:25:43 PM
Dave Edmiston called me while I was sitting next to a cattle trailer in the middle of Iowa. I was wondering why the tractor pulling it was festooned with a cartoon image of a flaming pig, but then I was in the middle of Iowa. FULL STORY »

Jolley: Five Minutes with Dr. Michael Doyle and those Superbugs
05/10/2013 9:25:09 AM
You should have read it. The story was in all the newspapers last month. Issued by the Food and Drug Administration, it was called the NARMS (National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System) study and it created panic in the streets. FULL STORY »

Jolley: CBB member Jimmy Maxey knows beef from calf to cutlet
04/19/2013 1:33:08 PM
Jimmy Maxey was raised on a family ranch; actually, it was the second homestead. His father, Jim Maxey, Sr., started raising cattle on Bethel Island, a five-square-mile chunk of river island about an hour east of San Francisco. FULL STORY »

Jolley: HSUS hangs Wyoming Premium Farms
04/12/2013 3:05:42 PM
Yup, they strung ‘em up from the nearest tree. Left them slowly twisting in the wind. The trial will be held later, but this hanging was done just to save some time. Wyoming Premium Farms was already found guilty in a kangaroo court. Judge Roy Bean presided. FULL STORY »

Jolley: 5 Minutes with Matt Liebman and sustainable agriculture
04/12/2013 8:23:21 AM
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. FULL STORY »

Jolley: The pork business has lost its butt
04/11/2013 1:05:00 PM
The competitive BBQ sport is a cutthroat business. Not when it comes to tossing a pork butt on the smoker, mind you, just when it comes to selecting a team name. FULL STORY »

Jolley: Five minutes with Scott George, NCBA’s new president
03/29/2013 9:04:09 AM
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. FULL STORY »

Jolley: CBB member Stacy McClintock, Kansas
03/18/2013 2:05:19 PM
Stacy McClintock operates a cow-calf herd in the spectacular Flint Hills region of Kansas. Her ranch is located just south of Soldier, a very small town about half an hour North and a little West of Topeka. FULL STORY »

Jolley: 5 minutes with Clay Pope and the magic of YouTube
03/15/2013 8:05:00 AM
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. FULL STORY »

Jolley: Will sequestration force the sky to fall?
03/04/2013 2:19:33 PM
I woke up Saturday morning, fearing the first day of sequestration, remembering that it rhymes with unpleasant things like castration. I thought I would check Facebook before I peeked outside to see if the sky was falling. Lots of people get up before I do so I was looking for an early weather report from some of my rancher friends. FULL STORY »