#MomLife, Cattle
Jodi Oleen
What "Good" Moms Eat

My daughter is nearly 18 months old right now. It’s the perfect age to remember all the things you were going to do as the “perfect” parent — and it’s been long enough to have broken most of those rules already.

What "Good" Moms Eat

Cattle

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Antibiotics in Meat | Worried About Them? See What Farm Moms Say

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Antibiotics in Meat | Worried About Them? See What Farm Moms Say

Should you be worried about antibiotics in meat you buy for your family? Why are antibiotics given to livestock? Is human health impacted by eating meat from animals given antibiotics? We’ve got these answers and more!

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We Hear You | Kansas Dairy

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We Hear You | Kansas Dairy

On a typical farm, producers harvest their commodity and sell it to a company or cooperative, which turns it into something you might see a grocery store. That’s the way our farm operated from about 1930 until 2007 when our family decided to build a processing plant.

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How to Support Family Farming: Fill a Grocery Cart

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How to Support Family Farming: Fill a Grocery Cart

Buy local” is a phrase I hear often — even in rural America. As a farmer, my job is to put safe, healthy foods on tables across America. That includes my local community.

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Sustainable Farming From a Farmer's Perspective

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Sustainable Farming From a Farmer's Perspective

Chances are, you’ve seen “sustainably farmed” labels at your grocery store. Did you ever stop to wonder what that means? Like many confusing food labels, the definition is not universal. In fact, sustainability can mean different things from one farm to another.

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Going From Vegetarian to Cattle Farmer

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Going From Vegetarian to Cattle Farmer

I spent years trading hamburgers for veggie patties, a “morally-conscious” food consumer who sought organic, natural ingredients whenever possible. Growing up in the city, I didn’t really understand how our food was grown. That is, until I left and started raising cattle myself.

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What Does a Farmer Do

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What Does a Farmer Do

Krystale is part of a fourth-generation family farm outside Lawrence, Kan., and a full-time operations manager for an insurance company. She and her husband, Lowell, are raising their two kids while growing crops and running a small beef cattle feedlot. Krystale is an expert multi-tasker and fits in hobbies like baking, writing, running and reading.