Blogs

Update: Beef, Slime, and Court Cases
Blog/News
March 5, 2013

Updated April 2, 2014  Almost two years after ABC News aired the TV segment, “Pink […]

A Horse Is a Horse, of Course, of Course, unless…
Blog/News
February 26, 2013

Update August 2017… Horses and the Slaughterhouse Issue Two British food company executives are behind […]

CAST Releases Spanish Version of Herbicide Resistance Paper
Press Release
February 25, 2013

Herbicides were developed during the twentieth century to be used with conventional tillage for weed […]

Social Media–Thunder Road Style
Blog/News
February 18, 2013

Sometimes I envy modern farm kids. They text from tractor cabs, tweet while the cows […]

Defining the Family Farm—You’ll Know It When…
Blog/News
February 13, 2013

Update: March, 2015:  The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service reports that family-owned […]

Transition Time at CAST–a Message from New EVP Linda M. Chimenti
Press Release
February 8, 2013

Think of the word “change.” What does the word bring to mind? Images of disruption, […]

A Cold Taste of the Hard Work That Came with the Good Old Days
Blog/News
February 5, 2013

Frigid 2014 Update: No Snow Day Holidays on the Farm:  On a Virginia cattle farm, […]

John Bonner Retires from CAST
Press Release
February 1, 2013

John Bonner looks to the future by pulling from the past. “For forty years CAST […]

Farm Kids on Snowbound Days—The Cabin Fever App
Blog/News
January 29, 2013

Dad, my uncle, and my grandparents farmed together and lived on three homesteads that were […]

The Hygiene Hypothesis—Farm Germs Might Be the Best Medicine
Blog/News
January 21, 2013

Update Feb. 2016: ** The Dirt Cure: This new book looks into research that suggests […]