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cotton emerging!

Farmers are Planning For Cotton Harvest as They Plant Cotton

By on May 22, 2013 in cotton

Sometimes it takes me longer to get around to answering a question than it should. I recently saw some things about cotton planting and a light bulb went off reminding me I had promised to answer a few questions from my friend Kevin at The Cotton Boll Conspiracy. He asked: What’s the planting range for cotton [...]

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Granny Smith Apple by Mr. Noded from Flickr

Reviving My Series of Food Polls With Apples! Which is your favorite?

By on May 17, 2013 in ag awareness, food, food poll

A few years ago (2010 to be  exact) the great butter and lard debate launched a fun series of food polls for my blog over the summer. Each weekend I would do a food poll. The poll could be on almost any kind of food — we talked ice cream, favorite Chicago foods, celebrating by [...]

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Hayden Paniettiere cotton commercial horiz

What’s with that Hayden Panettiere cotton commercial?

By on May 6, 2013 in cotton, popular culture

If you are a fan of Hayden Panettiere, you know the actress has made a name for herself by playing the tomboy daughter of a football coach, a high school cheerleader and hero who can produce fire and a rising star in Nashville who has more than a few personal problems. Well, she is drawing [...]

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A to Z Agriculture blogging challenge

Lessons Learned Through My Blogging Challenge, an A to Z on Agriculture

By on May 4, 2013 in ag awareness, social media

I have done a few different blogging and social media challenges in the past couple of years, but have to say the A to Z Challenge may have been the toughest! And even though someone has suggested that I should start again with AA and BB, I’m taking a break from the series — at [...]

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Deer disease issue

Z is for Zoonoses — Zoonoses Isn’t Something Farmers Can Laugh About

By on May 2, 2013 in ag awareness, animal ag

The word zoonoses…. seeing that on my screen makes me wonder how many of us giggle at the idea of zoo noses. You know, like an elephant’s trunk or the orangutan’s smooshed up nose? But zoonoses doesn’t have a space and it is a really serious topic for livestock farmers and ranchers. The World Health [...]

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vineyard

V is for Viticulture — Cultivating Grapes for Wine Making

By on April 28, 2013 in ag awareness, food, travel

Viticulture is another one of the words that I think may not be familiar to everyone but if you drink wine, you should be really happy that viticulture exists because in a nutshell viticulture is “the cultivation or culture of grapes especially for wine making.” I have to say when I think of viticulture, my [...]

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Urban Harvest STL roof top farm

U is for Urban Agriculture — Growing More Food in the City

By on April 27, 2013 in ag awareness

Urban agriculture. I can’t imagine many people used that phrase 20 years ago but it is certainly a phrase that is growing in prominence. And I think its awesome! The more ways we connect ourselves to the production of food — both in the city and the countryside — the more we will appreciate the [...]

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tractor getting ready to plant

S is for Seed — It All Starts with a Seed

By on April 23, 2013 in ag awareness

My part of agriculture is crops even if I’ve been learning more about livestock in the past few years. And crops tend to start with the seed (I say tend because there are a few like olives that work off cuttings). Seed is probably the most critical decision a farmer or gardener makes in a [...]

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