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Five ‘good luck’ foods for the New Year

By Julie Tomascik Are you superstitious? Want to start the New Year off right? Then, enjoy these five foods that are supposed to bring you good luck for the next 365 days. Or so tradition says. Grapes. Those who manage to eat 12 grapes before the clock stops chiming will get extra good luck and [...]

Where’s ag in your home?

By Julie Tomascik Paint brushes, laundry detergents and books are stacked throughout my garage. And house. But my disorganized home is not the point. Those items are part of agriculture. No, they aren’t a cow, sow or plow. But they are byproducts from those animals and the crops grown by farmers and ranchers. Because agriculture [...]

What’s the price of your Thanksgiving menu?

By Julie Tomascik Grocery lists are made, family members have their food assignments and the carving knife is sharp. I can almost smell the turkey baking in the oven and the gravy simmering on the stove. That means Thanksgiving is just around the corner. And shoppers are flooding grocery stores to prep for the holiday [...]

Values do matter to farmers and ranchers

By Julie Vrazel Values and farmers and ranchers—they go hand-in-hand. A 30-second commercial by Whole Foods Market shows that. Sort of. It implies organic is superior and more ethical than conventionally-grown food. I don't agree. In their marketing scheme to boost sales, Whole Foods left out one important ingredient—conventional farmers and ranchers. Truth is, like their [...]

October 28, 2014|Categories: Featured|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Connecting the dots

By Jessica Domel I love aha moments. You know the kind. When something you've heard, maybe a dozen times before, just finally clicks in your brain and everything makes sense. My nieces had one of those moments over the weekend during the last days of the State Fair of Texas. My brother and I took [...]

October 21, 2014|Categories: Texas Agriculture|Tags: , , |0 Comments