July 30, 2025 • 18 mins
On this week’s American Family Farmer, Doug Stephan takes on some of the week’s biggest agricultural stories. He begins with Brooke Rollins' surprising success at the USDA despite her lack of ag experience, especially in supporting disaster-hit farmers.
Doug also dives into new findings on the dangers of ultra-processed foods vs. traditional whole grains and whole milk.
Corn season is underway — and so is destruction from the corn earworm, worsened by extreme weather.
Plus, a lighthearted look at the “cow decor” craze, and a serious note on why only real milk from mammals should be called milk.
Website: AmericanFamilyFarmerShow.com
Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks
Doug also dives into new findings on the dangers of ultra-processed foods vs. traditional whole grains and whole milk.
Corn season is underway — and so is destruction from the corn earworm, worsened by extreme weather.
Plus, a lighthearted look at the “cow decor” craze, and a serious note on why only real milk from mammals should be called milk.
Website: AmericanFamilyFarmerShow.com
Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The American Family Farmer podcast, sponsored in part by Caldron
The Safe, Proven Way to Lose weight. Check it all
out at toploss dot com. There are a lot of
us that are so independent. We don't want help from
somebody else. We want to be able to do it
on our own. And thus we all have jobs off
the farm, or we all have to treat farming in
(00:21):
a different way. Very few of us make a living
on the farm unless we're just huge, and sometimes that's
even difficult. So it's one of the stories that we
will talk about as we move into that conversational part
of the program. Right now, though it's the news portion
of the program, things that have happened in the past
week or so that affect you as an American family farmer.
(00:46):
The United States has a number of different secretariats, and
the one that is closest to doing what we need
to have done at the USDA is Secretary Brooke Rallins.
Some controversy about her and what her aspirations are, where
she comes from, what does she know about farming. Well,
she seems to have gotten herself into the mode. If
(01:08):
you will, I wish we could get all these people
and this is an opine. I guess of a sort,
just stop talking about Biden and what used to happen,
What are you doing now, and what are we going
to do moving forward? So the USDA announces they're going
to release three hundred and forty million dollars in disaster
assistance for farmers in rural communities. The funding will be
(01:33):
delivered from the Disaster Assistance Fund to those who have
been impacted by, for example, down in Texas the floods.
What's that done to farming in that neck of the woods.
It's done a lot and it's not good. Ms Rowlins
made the announcement during an event in North Dakota, one
of a series of stops that she has made over
the past couple of months. She said, quote, one of
(01:54):
our key priorities is to realign the entire agency and
department around putting farmers in our agg community first. And
that kind of goes hand in hand with getting away
from the SNAP program, putting that in a separate bill,
and let's focus on farming. So there were, for example,
(02:15):
five million bucks set aside to help me build North
Dakota's electric infrastructure that were damaged by some severe storms
earlier in the year, wildfires, even going back to last year.
So at any rate, this is the thing that is
getting I think under her skin a little bit, is
(02:37):
whether or not they can solve the farm labor crisis
before harvesting, because there is a problem. They don't seem
to know. They do one They say they're going to
do one thing one week, and then they do another
something different next week, and it has farmers. A lot
of farmers who were supportive of Trump are pretty angry
at the situation, depending on the size of the farm.
(02:59):
Here's something that was released. The information released this week
the tracking of five hundred and forty thousand diets different
diets over the past thirty years or so. The results
this is good news for farmers because it's a focus
on natural whole grains and whole milk and all the
(03:20):
good stuff versus ultra processed foods. It's pretty shocking, actually.
This was commissioned by the Way by Hurst Magazines. These
studies suggests that eating lots of these processed foods increases
the risk of your dyeing ten years earlier than you
(03:42):
might have were you to eat much better food. For example,
when you're grabbing a quick deli meat sandwich from the
grocery store, or you're sipping on a soda for an
afternoon pick me up, there's a solid chance that it
will be perhaps the most important part of what you
put in your body that day. And it's not a
good thing. They may taste good, it may be convenient,
(04:05):
but the research consistently suggests that consuming a lot of
these foods in your diet is a hammer a nail
in your coffin. So I guess once in a while,
it's like anything else, it doesn't hurt you. But if
you make a consistent diet of all of this stuff.
These again, five hundred and forty thousand American adults between
(04:28):
the ages of fifty and seventy tracked for thirty years,
more than half of the people in the study, which
started back in the mid nineties have died, and they
do because of their eating habits. They died on because
of the processed culinary ingredients, if you will, the processed foods,
(04:50):
ultra processed foods. They really are. You know, this is
artificial colors and flavors. And the reason, one of the
reasons I'm bringing this up is because the new Secretary
of Health and Human Service is aware of this study
and some of the decisions that he's making about ultra
processed food and how bad it is for your health
and for your heart especially. This is something, by the way,
(05:13):
that I'll be talking about if you listen to one
of my other programs on the weekend, the Good Day
Health Program. Doctor Jack Stockwell addresses this stuff all the time.
Doctor Ken Cronhaus and I will discuss it as a
matter of fact this weekend on his American Family Farm.
A lot of these shows that I do are sort
of aimed at helping you a helpful market that I'm
(05:36):
aiming for, helping you understand where the food comes from,
helping you understand what's good for you, helping you understand
different bits and pieces of how we live. But this
is really something that is and by the way, it
applies to oyster farms and lobster farms and fish farms
(05:56):
the stuff that's grown rather than its natural in its
natural element, but the fish farms, the stuff that comes
out of those places not in rendered as good as
what you're going to experience if you buy the real thing,
if you know what I mean. Okay, So here's something
that is hopefully going to be very helpful for those
(06:17):
of you who have Now, as the corn crop is producing,
we're looking around to see how we're going to do.
The people the government gets into the business are projecting
how many bushels of corn and all that other stuff
we're going to grow. The corn earworm is out and about,
and the loss of seventy six million bushels of corn
(06:40):
this year is likely, and every year it's mounting. The
extreme weather, the temperatures, the things that we are putting
onto the stuff that we grow, and how these insect
pests are responding to this, they are becoming immune. So
(07:02):
especially for those who have the hybrid corn seeds and
the plants that come from them seem to not be
as good, although I think there are a couple of
companies that are trying to breed into the corn seed
a resistance to the corn earworm, for example, and how
it feeds on the silk and the husks and the kernel,
(07:25):
so that if you don't spray your corn, and I
don't if you're growing sweet corn, and I have gone
back to doing that for a couple of different reasons
on my farm. You have to explain to people that
don't know any better that This is because we don't treat.
We're not spraying the corn to get rid of these bugs.
(07:45):
So I have to cut the top off of the corn.
That doesn't mean that the corn is bad. It just means,
actually it's better. But I find it interesting looking at
some of this agricultural research here that there's a new
line engineer to have a gene and it triggers flavonoid production.
That the flabinoids have been developed over the last twenty
(08:09):
years or so in the lab, and these mutant lines
of corn, some of them are trying the earworm larvae
feed on the flabinoid. It's this two technical, it's not
it is. I mean, what the takeaway is to this
(08:29):
is that there are similar efforts being introduced by these
corn companies. And I have been critical, certainly of the
big egg companies. And I happen to buy my corn
from a producer in Illinois and one in Pennsylvania, my
savage corn from people who don't have any of this stuff.
(08:52):
It's just basic, straight open pollinated corn and it does great.
And I am worried about any of this stuff. We've
gotten to the point where we've developed so many different
types of things that we have encouraged multiple insect pests,
and so now what they're trying to do is breed
(09:12):
into the corn a way of developing these flabinoids that
produce corn lines that protect against the insects. And they're
doing that for organic farmers too as a matter of fact.
So interesting development there. Okay, the Big Beautiful Bill, and
what's going on with that? Is there an adaptation? I
(09:35):
don't know if we have that yet. It's just seems
to be a lot of confusion about it. But anyway,
HR won the Big Beautiful Bill significant step toward restoring
long term certainty for farmers, so they say, but I'm
not sure that a lot of people have felt that yet.
The reconciliation product that came out, the farm policy, changes
(10:00):
in farm the volable markets and that sort of thing
have been addressed here, whether disasters have been addressed, this
is supposed to if you look at the into the
weeds of the bill, it's supposed to take care of
a lot of the farm problems through the year twenty
thirty one fresh investments in agriculture. This was done because
(10:22):
the Senate required some sort of there's no farm bill.
There hasn't many farm bill. We've been talking about this
for a couple of years, and so what they did
was try to put things into this bill for farmers,
and farmers were important here, urging lawmakers to retain some
of the provisions that provided meaningful support. And so the
(10:45):
Congressional Budget Office, when looking at this big Beautiful Bill,
said the program spending was up by fifty six billion
dollars over the next decade from now till twenty thirty four.
And that's tied to enhancements of farm Safety Net, higher prices,
(11:06):
guaranteed coverage, that sort of thing. In other words, the
marketplace doesn't really set the price anymore. The government does.
And then you know there's livestock, biosecurity stuff. One of
the things that they're having to deal with is the
stuff that the screwworm is coming in or has. We're
(11:27):
trying to protect from it from coming in here. But
the closing down the markets is something that wasn't really desirable,
but it was necessary. So anyway, some clear cut references
to the Big Beautiful Bill and what's coming down the pike,
some news for you to think about here on the
American Family Farmer Elizabeth Miller is here, so what if
(11:48):
we look online right now at toploss dot com. What
are we going to see, Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
If you've got a top loss dot com and you
click shop radio sale, it's got all kinds of information.
My college are only one place. With this new website,
we have three gifts with every single purchase of Caltrin,
So that's really awesome too. And then one other thing
I really wanted to hit on today too. I know
a lot of these white lost shots are really popular
right now. People are asking can you take caldrin with that?
And one hundred percent you need caltren because caltrin is
(12:16):
going to help you retain the lean muscle, rebuild lean muscle,
keep your energy and metabolism boosted, and then it's also
going to help tone and tightened skin. And it does
it safely where it does not interfere with anything, it
doesn't have any drugs or simulants, it doesn't make you
feel sick or jittery, and it's not going to be
overload on trying to do too much white loss.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Elizabeth Miller from Caltron here, use the dug code when
you're doing the orders that help shout as well getting
free shipping and the best deal toploss dot Com for Caldron.
Back on the American Family Farmer, most people women, it seems,
(12:55):
depending on where you are in the country, love to
decorate their home. They have little things around cow this
and cow that, and there are a lot of reasons
to like cows, a lot of reasons to love cows.
We have enjoyed June every year National Dairy Month, so
(13:15):
we've had the month. I was thinking about a lot
of pieces of the pie, things that you may know
about a cow if you're a dairy farmer. We have
a lot of people listening to the American Family Farmer
who are not farmers, but they want to know more
about For example, last week we had Warren Eckstein on
the program that the Pet Behaviorists, who talked a lot about
(13:38):
dogs and cats, but also about larger animals in the
heat in the summertime, that sort of thing. We're interested
in simple solutions to problems, and cow seem to provide
that the simple solution to drinking healthy milk is to
get whole milk and not the stuff that's watered down.
(13:58):
And you've heard me say, probably more than once, how
I sort of put people, I don't put them in
their place. But I don't want to put anybody down,
but I try to straighten out people's thinking about milk. Milk,
real milklk. Milk comes from a mammary gland. So if
(14:19):
you're not drinking milk, it comes from a goat's memory gland,
or a cow's memory gland, or some other mammalian who
has developed the ability to have offspring and therefore feeds
the offspring with the milk that comes from their bodies
human beings. But the stuff that comes from an almond
(14:39):
or a coconut or soy or whatever the other crap is,
it's not about milk. It's not about a cow, it's
not about a memory gland. So what else do we have?
How many people know about cows. I just brought a bull,
my seasonal bull, in to take care of the ladies
(15:02):
who need to be taken care of over the next
six months or so, so that they have an ice
ring of bread cows. I don't do the artificial thing,
although it's an option, It just works better for me
to have a good, fresh, young bull. So I noticed
as we put the bull out to pasture with the cows,
that the heifers started pushing them around, and I was
(15:26):
thinking about, how is there some comparative to humans when
somebody knew is introduced into the neighborhood, into the group
male and female. The fact that cows have best friends
has become obvious to me sometimes. Well, a lot of
people look at cows, the big milkers, and not just
(15:47):
the dairy people, but the beef people. They look at
the cow as a commodity. Yeah, the cow is a commodity,
but they also are beings, and they're sension beings, as
are many other animals in the animal kingdom. But the
fact that the cows, I can see it every single
day in my herd. The cows all stick together. We
all know that, I have said on the air, and
(16:08):
people have raised their eyebrows oftentimes. In my herd, if
I have Holdstein's and jerseys, mostly have jerseys, but once
in a while there's a hold stein that gets in
that I will raise and breed. And sometimes, if not often,
the black cows are off to one side and the
brown cows are off to another side. Do they stick
(16:31):
together in the heat. Yeah, but there's an interesting thing
that they seem to recognize about each other. I don't
know whether it's good or bad. It's just an observation.
And I have also noticed and maybe people who have
heard of cows know what I'm talking about. When it
comes to the friend department, Yep, they are. They're very
friendly with humans if you will let them be friends
(16:55):
with humans. And they also are they have friends among
the herd. They also smarter than you think they are.
Cows are very bright. They have a powerful sense of smell.
Really like a dog, they really do. I've noticed that
they love to smell. They'll stick their tongues out and
(17:15):
try to lick your hand, that kind of stuff. That's
something that a lot of people don't know. I'm just
I'm passing this information along because I think it's kind
of neat. There are a thousand different breeds of cows.
I bet you didn't know that. I bet most of
you knew. However, although when I'm doing tours around my farm,
when I tell the people that are out on the
(17:36):
wagon going through the herd they have four stomachs, they
look at me like I'm crazy, But that's you have
a four chambered stomach, if you will, or four stomachs
in order to eat and digest and use the natural
value of the hay or the whatever their feet is
that they're eating. So hopefully you thought those were interesting
(17:58):
facts about cows. Here on the American Family Farmer. This
program was produced at Bobksound and Recording. Please visit bobksound
dot com. The American Family Farmer podcast sponsored in part
by Caldron, which is the safe way for you to
lose weight and keep it off.
The American Family Farmer podcast, sponsored in part by Caldron
The Safe, Proven Way to Lose weight. Check it all
out at toploss dot com. There are a lot of
us that are so independent. We don't want help from
somebody else. We want to be able to do it
on our own. And thus we all have jobs off
the farm, or we all have to treat farming in
(00:21):
a different way. Very few of us make a living
on the farm unless we're just huge, and sometimes that's
even difficult. So it's one of the stories that we
will talk about as we move into that conversational part
of the program. Right now, though it's the news portion
of the program, things that have happened in the past
week or so that affect you as an American family farmer.
(00:46):
The United States has a number of different secretariats, and
the one that is closest to doing what we need
to have done at the USDA is Secretary Brooke Rallins.
Some controversy about her and what her aspirations are, where
she comes from, what does she know about farming. Well,
she seems to have gotten herself into the mode. If
(01:08):
you will, I wish we could get all these people
and this is an opine. I guess of a sort,
just stop talking about Biden and what used to happen,
What are you doing now, and what are we going
to do moving forward? So the USDA announces they're going
to release three hundred and forty million dollars in disaster
assistance for farmers in rural communities. The funding will be
(01:33):
delivered from the Disaster Assistance Fund to those who have
been impacted by, for example, down in Texas the floods.
What's that done to farming in that neck of the woods.
It's done a lot and it's not good. Ms Rowlins
made the announcement during an event in North Dakota, one
of a series of stops that she has made over
the past couple of months. She said, quote, one of
(01:54):
our key priorities is to realign the entire agency and
department around putting farmers in our agg community first. And
that kind of goes hand in hand with getting away
from the SNAP program, putting that in a separate bill,
and let's focus on farming. So there were, for example,
(02:15):
five million bucks set aside to help me build North
Dakota's electric infrastructure that were damaged by some severe storms
earlier in the year, wildfires, even going back to last year.
So at any rate, this is the thing that is
getting I think under her skin a little bit, is
(02:37):
whether or not they can solve the farm labor crisis
before harvesting, because there is a problem. They don't seem
to know. They do one They say they're going to
do one thing one week, and then they do another
something different next week, and it has farmers. A lot
of farmers who were supportive of Trump are pretty angry
at the situation, depending on the size of the farm.
(02:59):
Here's something that was released. The information released this week
the tracking of five hundred and forty thousand diets different
diets over the past thirty years or so. The results
this is good news for farmers because it's a focus
on natural whole grains and whole milk and all the
(03:20):
good stuff versus ultra processed foods. It's pretty shocking, actually.
This was commissioned by the Way by Hurst Magazines. These
studies suggests that eating lots of these processed foods increases
the risk of your dyeing ten years earlier than you
(03:42):
might have were you to eat much better food. For example,
when you're grabbing a quick deli meat sandwich from the
grocery store, or you're sipping on a soda for an
afternoon pick me up, there's a solid chance that it
will be perhaps the most important part of what you
put in your body that day. And it's not a
good thing. They may taste good, it may be convenient,
(04:05):
but the research consistently suggests that consuming a lot of
these foods in your diet is a hammer a nail
in your coffin. So I guess once in a while,
it's like anything else, it doesn't hurt you. But if
you make a consistent diet of all of this stuff.
These again, five hundred and forty thousand American adults between
(04:28):
the ages of fifty and seventy tracked for thirty years,
more than half of the people in the study, which
started back in the mid nineties have died, and they
do because of their eating habits. They died on because
of the processed culinary ingredients, if you will, the processed foods,
(04:50):
ultra processed foods. They really are. You know, this is
artificial colors and flavors. And the reason, one of the
reasons I'm bringing this up is because the new Secretary
of Health and Human Service is aware of this study
and some of the decisions that he's making about ultra
processed food and how bad it is for your health
and for your heart especially. This is something, by the way,
(05:13):
that I'll be talking about if you listen to one
of my other programs on the weekend, the Good Day
Health Program. Doctor Jack Stockwell addresses this stuff all the time.
Doctor Ken Cronhaus and I will discuss it as a
matter of fact this weekend on his American Family Farm.
A lot of these shows that I do are sort
of aimed at helping you a helpful market that I'm
(05:36):
aiming for, helping you understand where the food comes from,
helping you understand what's good for you, helping you understand
different bits and pieces of how we live. But this
is really something that is and by the way, it
applies to oyster farms and lobster farms and fish farms
(05:56):
the stuff that's grown rather than its natural in its
natural element, but the fish farms, the stuff that comes
out of those places not in rendered as good as
what you're going to experience if you buy the real thing,
if you know what I mean. Okay, So here's something
that is hopefully going to be very helpful for those
(06:17):
of you who have Now, as the corn crop is producing,
we're looking around to see how we're going to do.
The people the government gets into the business are projecting
how many bushels of corn and all that other stuff
we're going to grow. The corn earworm is out and about,
and the loss of seventy six million bushels of corn
(06:40):
this year is likely, and every year it's mounting. The
extreme weather, the temperatures, the things that we are putting
onto the stuff that we grow, and how these insect
pests are responding to this, they are becoming immune. So
(07:02):
especially for those who have the hybrid corn seeds and
the plants that come from them seem to not be
as good, although I think there are a couple of
companies that are trying to breed into the corn seed
a resistance to the corn earworm, for example, and how
it feeds on the silk and the husks and the kernel,
(07:25):
so that if you don't spray your corn, and I
don't if you're growing sweet corn, and I have gone
back to doing that for a couple of different reasons
on my farm. You have to explain to people that
don't know any better that This is because we don't treat.
We're not spraying the corn to get rid of these bugs.
(07:45):
So I have to cut the top off of the corn.
That doesn't mean that the corn is bad. It just means,
actually it's better. But I find it interesting looking at
some of this agricultural research here that there's a new
line engineer to have a gene and it triggers flavonoid production.
That the flabinoids have been developed over the last twenty
(08:09):
years or so in the lab, and these mutant lines
of corn, some of them are trying the earworm larvae
feed on the flabinoid. It's this two technical, it's not
it is. I mean, what the takeaway is to this
(08:29):
is that there are similar efforts being introduced by these
corn companies. And I have been critical, certainly of the
big egg companies. And I happen to buy my corn
from a producer in Illinois and one in Pennsylvania, my
savage corn from people who don't have any of this stuff.
(08:52):
It's just basic, straight open pollinated corn and it does great.
And I am worried about any of this stuff. We've
gotten to the point where we've developed so many different
types of things that we have encouraged multiple insect pests,
and so now what they're trying to do is breed
(09:12):
into the corn a way of developing these flabinoids that
produce corn lines that protect against the insects. And they're
doing that for organic farmers too as a matter of fact.
So interesting development there. Okay, the Big Beautiful Bill, and
what's going on with that? Is there an adaptation? I
(09:35):
don't know if we have that yet. It's just seems
to be a lot of confusion about it. But anyway,
HR won the Big Beautiful Bill significant step toward restoring
long term certainty for farmers, so they say, but I'm
not sure that a lot of people have felt that yet.
The reconciliation product that came out, the farm policy, changes
(10:00):
in farm the volable markets and that sort of thing
have been addressed here, whether disasters have been addressed, this
is supposed to if you look at the into the
weeds of the bill, it's supposed to take care of
a lot of the farm problems through the year twenty
thirty one fresh investments in agriculture. This was done because
(10:22):
the Senate required some sort of there's no farm bill.
There hasn't many farm bill. We've been talking about this
for a couple of years, and so what they did
was try to put things into this bill for farmers,
and farmers were important here, urging lawmakers to retain some
of the provisions that provided meaningful support. And so the
(10:45):
Congressional Budget Office, when looking at this big Beautiful Bill,
said the program spending was up by fifty six billion
dollars over the next decade from now till twenty thirty four.
And that's tied to enhancements of farm Safety Net, higher prices,
(11:06):
guaranteed coverage, that sort of thing. In other words, the
marketplace doesn't really set the price anymore. The government does.
And then you know there's livestock, biosecurity stuff. One of
the things that they're having to deal with is the
stuff that the screwworm is coming in or has. We're
(11:27):
trying to protect from it from coming in here. But
the closing down the markets is something that wasn't really desirable,
but it was necessary. So anyway, some clear cut references
to the Big Beautiful Bill and what's coming down the pike,
some news for you to think about here on the
American Family Farmer Elizabeth Miller is here, so what if
(11:48):
we look online right now at toploss dot com. What
are we going to see, Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
If you've got a top loss dot com and you
click shop radio sale, it's got all kinds of information.
My college are only one place. With this new website,
we have three gifts with every single purchase of Caltrin,
So that's really awesome too. And then one other thing
I really wanted to hit on today too. I know
a lot of these white lost shots are really popular
right now. People are asking can you take caldrin with that?
And one hundred percent you need caltren because caltrin is
(12:16):
going to help you retain the lean muscle, rebuild lean muscle,
keep your energy and metabolism boosted, and then it's also
going to help tone and tightened skin. And it does
it safely where it does not interfere with anything, it
doesn't have any drugs or simulants, it doesn't make you
feel sick or jittery, and it's not going to be
overload on trying to do too much white loss.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Elizabeth Miller from Caltron here, use the dug code when
you're doing the orders that help shout as well getting
free shipping and the best deal toploss dot Com for Caldron.
Back on the American Family Farmer, most people women, it seems,
(12:55):
depending on where you are in the country, love to
decorate their home. They have little things around cow this
and cow that, and there are a lot of reasons
to like cows, a lot of reasons to love cows.
We have enjoyed June every year National Dairy Month, so
(13:15):
we've had the month. I was thinking about a lot
of pieces of the pie, things that you may know
about a cow if you're a dairy farmer. We have
a lot of people listening to the American Family Farmer
who are not farmers, but they want to know more
about For example, last week we had Warren Eckstein on
the program that the Pet Behaviorists, who talked a lot about
(13:38):
dogs and cats, but also about larger animals in the
heat in the summertime, that sort of thing. We're interested
in simple solutions to problems, and cow seem to provide
that the simple solution to drinking healthy milk is to
get whole milk and not the stuff that's watered down.
(13:58):
And you've heard me say, probably more than once, how
I sort of put people, I don't put them in
their place. But I don't want to put anybody down,
but I try to straighten out people's thinking about milk. Milk,
real milklk. Milk comes from a mammary gland. So if
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you're not drinking milk, it comes from a goat's memory gland,
or a cow's memory gland, or some other mammalian who
has developed the ability to have offspring and therefore feeds
the offspring with the milk that comes from their bodies
human beings. But the stuff that comes from an almond
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or a coconut or soy or whatever the other crap is,
it's not about milk. It's not about a cow, it's
not about a memory gland. So what else do we have?
How many people know about cows. I just brought a bull,
my seasonal bull, in to take care of the ladies
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who need to be taken care of over the next
six months or so, so that they have an ice
ring of bread cows. I don't do the artificial thing,
although it's an option, It just works better for me
to have a good, fresh, young bull. So I noticed
as we put the bull out to pasture with the cows,
that the heifers started pushing them around, and I was
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thinking about, how is there some comparative to humans when
somebody knew is introduced into the neighborhood, into the group
male and female. The fact that cows have best friends
has become obvious to me sometimes. Well, a lot of
people look at cows, the big milkers, and not just
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the dairy people, but the beef people. They look at
the cow as a commodity. Yeah, the cow is a commodity,
but they also are beings, and they're sension beings, as
are many other animals in the animal kingdom. But the
fact that the cows, I can see it every single
day in my herd. The cows all stick together. We
all know that, I have said on the air, and
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people have raised their eyebrows oftentimes. In my herd, if
I have Holdstein's and jerseys, mostly have jerseys, but once
in a while there's a hold stein that gets in
that I will raise and breed. And sometimes, if not often,
the black cows are off to one side and the
brown cows are off to another side. Do they stick
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together in the heat. Yeah, but there's an interesting thing
that they seem to recognize about each other. I don't
know whether it's good or bad. It's just an observation.
And I have also noticed and maybe people who have
heard of cows know what I'm talking about. When it
comes to the friend department, Yep, they are. They're very
friendly with humans if you will let them be friends
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with humans. And they also are they have friends among
the herd. They also smarter than you think they are.
Cows are very bright. They have a powerful sense of smell.
Really like a dog, they really do. I've noticed that
they love to smell. They'll stick their tongues out and
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try to lick your hand, that kind of stuff. That's
something that a lot of people don't know. I'm just
I'm passing this information along because I think it's kind
of neat. There are a thousand different breeds of cows.
I bet you didn't know that. I bet most of
you knew. However, although when I'm doing tours around my farm,
when I tell the people that are out on the
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wagon going through the herd they have four stomachs, they
look at me like I'm crazy, But that's you have
a four chambered stomach, if you will, or four stomachs
in order to eat and digest and use the natural
value of the hay or the whatever their feet is
that they're eating. So hopefully you thought those were interesting
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facts about cows. Here on the American Family Farmer. This
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