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CAST Goes on Spring Break
Category: Blog/News
March, 2011

Like most college students, I began counting the days until Spring Break back at the […]

Connections with Japan
Category: Blog/News
March, 2011

Images of Sendai Before the Tsunami        Many years ago while teaching in Japan, […]

Probiotics the Old Fashioned Way
Category: Blog/News
March, 2011

corbisimages.com Probiotics are live microorganisms that confer a health benefit on the host. In other […]

Inside Edition: February 2011
Category: Blog/News
February, 2011

CAST Office Welcome to the first CAST “Inside Edition” where you will get a behind-the-scenes […]

Agriculture Needs New Growth
Category: Blog/News
February, 2011

(qctimes.com) According to a 2007 USDA statistic, the average age of farmers continues to rise, […]

Farming the Carpet
Category: Blog/News
January, 2011

woodentoyplans.com On the day of my eighth Christmas, I spent much of the time harvesting […]

Ag Social Media “Ain’t Nothing New”
Category: Blog/News
December, 2010

   Ag producers of all types are taking to social media like digital pigs in […]

I Didn’t Know I was a Post-Nutritional Recycler
Category: Blog/News
November, 2010

During the pre-confinement era, hog houses had to be mucked out by hand, one pitchfork […]

It’s What Farmers Do
Category: Blog/News
October, 2010

October 2014—Another example of “what farmers do.”  As this article says, “An Illinois community came […]

The Fog of Words: “Factory Farm” Moves from Oxymoron to Connotation
Category: Blog/News
October, 2010

blog.myspace.com The term “Factory Farm” was an oxymoron when I grew up decades ago in […]

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