Comments for Steve Normanton Grass-Fed Beef

Comment on Early Birds by ceciliag

ceciliag — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:20:38 +0000

I use lights too, albeit on a tiny scale compared to you and my lots laid like crazy all winter, I had some very happy clients who are used to at least a month with nothing spare to sell during the dark days. Love the shot of your docked egg ships! c

Comment on Cow Catering Truck by ceciliag

ceciliag — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:46:03 +0000

fantastic idea! Those cows trample so much into the ground. Which is good for the soil but not so good for the pocket! c

Comment on Cow Catering Truck by Omar Khudari

Omar Khudari — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:08:11 +0000

When things get really slow, we shovel it to stay in shape.

Comment on Cow Catering Truck by Bill Fosher

Bill Fosher — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:59:38 +0000

Where is your snow!?

Comment on Just Label It by Tammey

Tammey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:41:53 +0000

Just recently read the book “Seeds of Deception.” Very scary. Had no idea really the extent of GMO’s and the lack of monitoring done on them. Then we found out that our youngest child suffers from a soy allergy (which is in everything) and it makes her very sick. Can’t help but think that it has something to do with the GE soy & corn that we’ve been eating for decades. Needless to say we are all going organic but it’s not happening fast enough. (and not even sure we can erraditcate it completely.) We always grow our own stuff but truly you have no idea just how saturated the other stuff you buy at the store is with GM material. I know that mandatory labeling may not be a “cure all” but I for one would rather do something than nothing at all.

Comment on Just Label It by ceciliag

ceciliag — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:03:30 +0000

Terrifying. We try not eat GM foods. The only way to do that is to only eat what we grow. (And no we do not eat processed foods) My husband is a physicist and calls GM the biggest un monitored experiment on the human race ever. and as your commenter above has shown how on earth do we avoid being contaminated ourselves.. c

Comment on Just Label It by Bill Fosher

Bill Fosher — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:16:33 +0000

Steve and Omar,

I’m ambivalent about the full implications of labeling GMO products. While I understand and applaud the reasons for avoiding GMOs in the food supply, I can see just two possible outcomes of a mandatory labeling program.

In the first scenario, the distinction that would be drawn would be between those that knowingly use GMOs and those that don’t. I think this is what most people believe they want. However, the fact that a farmer or food manufacturer doesn’t _knowingly_ use GMOs doesn’t mean that the product is free of them.

In fact, the only way to be sure that a supply of grain is free of GMOs is to test ever kernel, since wind can carry corn pollen a long ways and each corn kernel is pollinated by a different grain of pollen. If there’s GMO corn within a mile or two of the non-GMO corn field. Alfalfa is worse.

Basically, you’re asking farmers to prove a negative in order _not_ to be labeled.

Comment on State Vet Visit by Omar Khudari

Omar Khudari — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:53:02 +0000

Hmmm. Next time you see your vet, try speaking in a South African drawl. It works for Steve!

Comment on State Vet Visit by Marty Michener

Marty Michener — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:14:05 +0000

For free??!! Last time I had the three rabies vaccines they cost $300 each, outtapocket. And I don’t even know if they worked…but have no plans to test, either.

Comment on Research Farm Visit by ceciliag

ceciliag — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:24:00 +0000

This is fantastic. John makes his own fuel from old deep fryer oil. And i also am way impressed with these daikon radishes. We are recovering land from years and years of intensive cropping and i am always looking for ways to enrich it. I can sow these this spring in the new fields! Awesome. c