If you usually start reading the WLJ opinion page with the editorial comments, I urge you to read Kendal Frazier’s “Unholy Alliances” and Bill Bullard’s response to it first.
Kerry's Comments
After over 8 years as an editor with Western Livestock Journal, Kerry is moving on. She will take the lessons learned from the ranching community with her into the future.
Kerry questions if producers and consumers really are on the same page when it comes to core concerns. The devil is in the details.
Industry communications have captured Kerry's attention. While some make sense, others attack our consumers. How does that sell beef?
After skirting the weather all week, tour members finally got their hair wet as a quick sprinkle and hail interrupted lunch at the Sieben Ranch in Wolf Creek.
Friday June 7 was the penultimate day of the 2019 Ranch Study Tour in Montana. As with the rest of the week, the weather chased tour members, this time with greater insistence. The wind tried to steal hats and drove the tour into a barn on the Curry Ranch, the first stop of the day.
Day 4 (June 6) of the 2019 WLJ Ranch Study Tour in Montana started off cooler than expected. We were watching the skies since rain was in the forecast. As it turned out, it was a beautiful day with the thunderstorms patiently holding off until we returned to the hotel.
Day 3 (June 5) of this year's Ranch Study Tour in Montana saw tour members visit the rugged green pastures of the Ox Bow Ranch and the intimate confines of the art studio of Charles M. Russell, one of the West's most iconic artists.
Day 2 (June 4) of the 2019 WLJ Ranch Study Tour in Montana saw tour members trek through beautiful Helmville where bright skies and green grass was almost blinding.
The 2019 WLJ Ranch Study Tour is taking tour members to Montana this year. This year's tour, which sold out in record time, brought together old familiar faces and new friends.
Is lab-grown meat the way of the future or nothing but science fiction? Don’t dismiss it—investors aren’t and the fake meat makers envision a world without ranchers.
When it comes to the threats facing the industry, Kerry sees benefits in assuming they are based on honest ignorance rather than malice.
The second day of the Ozark-Osage tour started off with a very old bang as we focused on the history of Fort Smith, AR, all morning. Historical richness is literally worked into the wood- and brick-paved roads in this town, including being the terminus of the Trail of Tears, a town held by b…
Day Three on the Ozark-Osage Ranch Study Tour had nothing to do with cattle. Instead, tour members visited a Tyson chicken hatchery and learned about beef’s biggest competitor.
As mentioned on Wednesday, we spent the better part of Tuesday in Historic Fort Smith, AR. We began our visit at Miss Laura’s, a riverside brothel that opened in 1903. Now a museum, the part of “Miss Laura” is played by Carolyn Joyce, who took tour members on a guided walk through the restor…
The last day of the Ozark-Osage Ranch Study Tour started well before we reached Stonehill Land and Cattle of Miami (“my-AM-ah”), OK. We first stopped off at the Joplin Regional Stockyards to pick up our tour guides, all of them either ranch staff or family members of the ranch’s staff.
We started off our first day of the Ozark-Osage tour late. Airline troubles meant some tour members—or their luggage—got held up or delivered to the wrong place. But we sorted it out, got together, and were eventually out on the road in green Oklahoma, heading northeast towards our first des…
After several days of early mornings, touring ranches in the heat and humidity of the area, and getting in late, tour members got a bit of a break on Thursday, May 24. Tour members were turned loose in Branson, MO, known as the live music show capital of the world. Many attended shows all ov…
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