by Abbie Burnett | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog
Sustaining Common Ground The first time I visited New York City it thrilled me. So many people from all walks of life coming together at one place and time. The smells were most particular – ranging from the taxi cab exhaust fumes to the Atlantic Ocean, wafting in...
by Abbie Burnett | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog
BLI: An Original Experience I’ve only been with the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand since May 1, learning more about beef and cattle in three months than in my entire life growing up on a Texas farm and showing stock. Past experience showed me enough to get where...
by Chelsea Dinterman | Jul 24, 2019 | Blog
Of dreams and going all in “I wish I could just move west and buy a ranch.” It’s something I’ve heard my dad mutter for years. He’s been around agriculture all his life, stacking hay as a teen and raising Hereford steers for the freezer as an adult. But Maryland is...
by Miranda Reiman | Jul 12, 2019 | Blog
Not one for small talk Uncomfortable silence. If you don’t like it, you know the kind. Perhaps you’re just getting to know somebody, and you reach a point in the conversation where that silence hangs heavy and it makes you uneasy. I’m a talker by nature and...
by Abbie Burnett | Jul 8, 2019 | Award/contest winners, Blog, On the ranch
Coming Home “His name is Panic Switch,” says Colton Hamilton with a grin. His father Gavin helps hold the stuffed bull’s head nearly their height. But I didn’t hear the word “panic” clearly. I don’t know what I heard, even after asking a couple more times. Maybe the...
by Morgan Marley | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog
From one overachiever to another Picture this: Two sprinkler irrigation pipes standing nearly 30 feet tall made sturdy by a cross brace. A perfectly calculated swing hanging from the center of the brace. A 12-foot platform attached to every kid’s dream jungle gym. Any...
