Blogs

What’s Making Us Sick?
Blog/News
April 6, 2012

Health and safety groups reissued a list of the Ten Most Deadly Outbreaks of Food […]

Pig in a Poke: Gestation Stalls and Old-style Free Range
Blog/News
March 30, 2012

Companies such as Hormel, Smithfield, and Cargill have made plans to gradually end or cut […]

Agriculture and Stream Water Quality: New CAST Publication Featured in D.C. Rollouts
Press Release
March 28, 2012

Dr. Donald Huggins, Kansas Biological Survey, presented three sessions in Washington, D.C., on March 26 […]

Would Finely Textured Beef by Any Other Name Taste the Same?
Blog/News
March 23, 2012

Update June 2017–“Slime” Trial Begins The defamation lawsuit brought by a South Dakota meat processor […]

Herbicides, Tillage, and Conservation: Noted CAST Paper Examines the Issue
Press Release
March 16, 2012

NOTE: Update as of March 27:  At the same location, you may access a video […]

Zombie Weeds: Plants Become Vicious Again
Blog/News
March 15, 2012

Update December 2014: Farmers engaged in an epic struggle with “superweeds” are looking for help […]

CAST’s Annual Report 2011 Reflects Accomplishments and Looks to the Future
Press Release
March 14, 2012

Nathaniel Tablante, the current President of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, linked the […]

Water, Water Everywhere, but for Some, Not a Drop to Drink
Blog/News
March 8, 2012

     In the classic science fiction novel Dune, water is so scarce that the inhabitants […]

Dietary Guidelines–The Sweet and Sour Debate
Blog/News
March 1, 2012

2016 U.S. Government Dietary Guidelines:   The Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services released […]

Knowing How the “Sausage is Made”
Blog/News
February 23, 2012

Update: August, 2013:  This editorial considers whether or not consumers really want to see where […]