…Bird Flu Management plans for agriculture operations. Sabrina Halvorson speaks with Mark Cady, Senior Environmental Scientist at the California Department of Food and Agriculture and President of the California Chapter…
American Agriculture History Minute: How the Butler Brothers Influenced Agriculture
DepositPhotos image I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. American Agriculture History Minute: How the Butler Brothers Influenced Agriculture Brothers Charles and Newton Butler founded Butler Manufacturing Company…
Proposed Federal Dietary Guidelines Causing Angst for Cattle Producers
…the protein recommendations slightly to come from beans, peas and lentils which is a vegetable-based protein and slightly decrease animal-based proteins.” National Cattlemen’s Beef Association president Mark Eisele calls the…
World Rice Balance Sheets Update
DepositPhotos image World Agricultural Outlook Board Chairman Dr. Mark Jekanowski explains the changes in both world and U .S. rice balance sheets this month. World Rice Balance Sheets Update “Few…
American Agriculture History Minute: First Land-Grant College Founded Under the Morrill Act
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. American Agriculture History Minute: First Land-Grant College Founded Under the Morrill Act Drawing of Blue Mont Central College By The Hall…
American Agriculture History Minute: Morrill Act of 1862 and Land-Grant Universities
DepositPhotos image I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. American Agriculture History Minute: Morrill Act of 1862 and Land-Grant Universities Land -grant universities exist in nearly every state…
American Agriculture History Minute: Agricultural College and Modern Farm Legislation Enacted
DepositPhotos image I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. American Agriculture History Minute: Agricultural College and Modern Farm Legislation Enacted In 1856, the Iowa General Assembly enacted legislation…
NCBA Pushes Back Against Dietary Guidelines
…advice ignores strong scientific evidence about beef’s essential role in a healthy diet. Mark Eisele, NCBA President and Wyoming rancher, emphasizes that most Americans already eat beef within healthy limits….
American Agriculture History Minute: Creameries Merge in St. Paul, Minnesota
Production of butter. DepositPhotos image I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. American Agriculture History Minute: Creameries Merge in St. Paul, Minnesota In July 1921, 320 cooperative creameries…
American Agriculture History Minute: Dramatic Agricultural Expansion
DepositPhotos image I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. The most dramatic expansion in American agriculture took place over a 50-year period from 1860 to 1910. The number…
American Agriculture History Minute: Women’s Movement in Agriculture
DepositPhotos image I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. American Agriculture History Minute: Women’s Movement in Agriculture In the 1860s, when many men marched off to the Civil…
American Agriculture History Minute: The Economy and Agriculture’s Move West
DepositPhotos image I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. American Agriculture History Minute: The Economy and Agriculture’s Move West No surprise, the U.S. economy was primarily agriculturally based…
Disaster Tax Relief Bill Passes in U.S. Senate
…with a tax bill,” said NCBA President and Wyoming rancher Mark Eisele. “With the devastating hurricanes and wildfires the cattle industry has suffered over the past several years, helping producers…
American Agriculture History Minute: Learning the Laws of Supply and Demand
DepositPhotos image I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. American Agriculture History Minute: Learning the Laws of Supply and Demand Farmers and ranchers in early American agriculture quickly…