Chuck Jolley
Jolley: 5 Minutes with Joe Maxwell, HSUS Dir. of Rural Outreach
HSUS responds to last week's interview with Nebraska's Pete McClymont, president of We Support Agriculture, a group formed to fight HSUS efforts in the Cornhusker state.
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Jolley: Five minutes with We Support Agriculture's Pete McClymont
Pete McClymont is Vice President of Legislative Affairs for the Nebraska Cattlemen. It’s a job that might make for an interesting interview, especially in today’s interesting political climate. It’s his other job, though, that caught my attention. He’s president of a new special interest group called “We Support Agriculture.”
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Jolley: Pat Venable discusses cattle, catering and the cook-off
Pat Venable lives on a ranch near Klamath Falls. It’s a small Oregon town on the dry side of the Cascade mountains that run north to south in central Oregon to the California border.
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Jolley: Five minutes with Steve Kay and a look at the new year
This will be my third annual visit with CBW’s Steve Kay, one of the sharpest observers of the direction and occasional misdirection of the North American cattle business.
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Jolley: It’s time to toughen animal ag’s ‘good hands’ rules
A few weeks ago, I was talking with Elizabeth Weise, a reporter for USA Today, about food safety issues, specifically the advent of pre-harvest controls and how animal ag would react.
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Jolley: Five Minutes with Trent Loos
Trent talks…a lot. He talks on his radio program, on planes and in airports. It’s his thing. I took this from his web site, “Loos records, produces and sends his radio programs from wherever his travels take him using his laptop computer and the Internet. He presently has a radio listening audience of 4 million and can be heard on more than 100 stations across the country.”
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Jolley: Five minutes with a brand new Farm Bill
Tom Vilsack says the next Farm Bill needs to “provide aid to farmers affected by natural disasters, increase funding for agricultural research and continue important conservation programs.”
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Jolley: Talking with Laurie Munns about ranching and dry land farming
I asked Cattlemen’s Beef Board member Laurie Munns about how she got started in the cattle business. She was 19 and wasn’t raised on a farm.
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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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- New school lunch beef recipes win approval from kids, foodservice
- Prices for corn and soybeans, five years from now
- Drier weather to give big boost to U.S. corn plantings
- The relationship between retail gasoline prices and futures prices
- Agriculture is expected to remain strong in the coming decade
- Domestic ethanol production starts to grow again
