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05/09/08 Non-cowboy cowboys

Sometimes too much help is worse than not enough help. I’m Jeff Keane; I’ll be back right after this to explain. It was one of those times you knew you should have said you had plenty of help but you didn’t for a number of reasons that all seemed to be valid at the time. That’s how it was that branding day round-up morning when the crew left the ranch house with a lot of saddles filled and we were hoping there were enough filled with cowboys to offset the “help” of the saddle fillers. The ca...

05/07/08 Food Traceability

It has to be one of the major “well, duh” moments in recent food safety history. Searching to come up with a solution to combat the ever growing concerns over food safety and traceability Forbes.com stated in a recent article that “the flow of raw materials and ingredients should be tracked from producers to the manufacturer, and then the finished product would be followed through the distribution process to the retailer; meaning food companies would be able to track their products from field to...