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 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: Mark Bittman’s view of modern agriculture and why it annoys me
Something about Mark Bittman, the New York Times’ most elitist ag writer, just annoys the hell out of me. It might be his pollyannaish approach to farming.
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Jolley: Learning about family farming from Jane Clifford, CBB member
The first thing anyone should know about Jane Clifford is that she’s a teacher. She graduated in 1974 from the University of Vermont with a degree in education and taught elementary school.
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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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So the FSIS finally handed down a decision on beef carcass irradiation
A few days ago, Dr. Betsy Booren, Director of Scientific Affairs at the American Meat Institute, received a long-awaited letter from the Food Safety Inspection Service.
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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
- NASA backs 3D food printer to feed growing population
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
