The world has a lot of beauty in it 🌅🏔️🐂

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists. nyti.ms/3RffH6t

Been a busy winter. Created loads of new habitats, including woodland, scrub, and wetlands. We’ve changed the farm from 12 fields to over 50 - gives us loads of edge habitats and way more grazing cells.

For far too long, penguins have been taking advantage of the USA. That ends now. npr.org/2025/04/03/nx-…

Dr. Jason Lombard is working with producers and students to investigate how HPAI may be spreading in dairy cattle. His research supports efforts to prevent disease, protect animal health, and control future outbreaks. Full story from Colorado State University: loom.ly/lrIFXjQ

AgNext and Harsh International are partnering to advance sustainable animal agriculture. Harsh has donated a stationary feed mixer to our Climate-Smart Research Facility to support precision feeding research. Learn more: loom.ly/VfIWlyg

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on

Debasing the constitution, human rights, the level of discourse for “official” communication. Sad state of the affairs in the USA at the moment. Embarrassing and wrong.

An excellent example of the loneliness economy. Technology makes people lonely, then sells them a solution in the form of technology. Endless profit possibility. AI mirrors you. You're being sold back to yourself. It will only increase hyper-individualism and isolation.

This weekend, we celebrated the graduation of seven AgNext students from Colorado State University! 🎓 Congrats to Erin, Rhyse, Karina, Julia, Maya, Lily & Catie! Learn about the accomplishments of all AgNext students over the past academic year in our latest blog: loom.ly/cA9MyNw

Bumper sticker I think ⁦Tamar Haspel⁩ would appreciate!

"These results suggest a limited ability to predict enteric CH4 by steers during the finishing phase. Further efforts are required to generate sensitive models to accurately predict enteric CH4 emissions in finishing steers" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Global population and growth rate from 1950 - 2023

On July 8th my colleagues and I discussed “The Essential Societal Role of Livestock, Today and Tomorrow” for the Livestock Symposium at the 2025 Meeting of the American & Canadian Societies of Animal Science in Hollywood, FL. The presentations were recorded and videos are now

🎙️ Episode 1 is LIVE! Why is eating well so hard – even when we want to? Neuroscientist Stephan J. Guyenet breaks down: 🏪 Why our food environment outpaced our biology 🧠 How certain foods hijack our brains 💊 What the data shows about Ozempic & GLP-1 drugs Apple:

A drop in air pollution in East Asia drove a surge in warming, a new study finds. e360.yale.edu/digest/asia-ai…

New on the AgNext Podcast: @DrSPlace joins Dr. Kim Stackhouse-Lawson and @PedroCattle to talk about methane fact sheets developed with Colorado Department of Agriculture. These tools help stakeholders better understand methane in livestock production. 🎧 Listen now: loom.ly/MHHDzPI

Register today for the next Dairy Publication Roundtable Series session! Join Dr. Manriquez for a discussion on “Preventing Farmworker Heat Stress and Related Health Risks in Dairy Operations.” 🗓️ Thursday, July 24 | 12:00 p.m. MST 🔗 Register: loom.ly/l-9e5a4

Number of beef & dairy cows in the US since 1920. Since the peak in 1975, the US has 19.7 million fewer cows in 2025. As dairy cows as a % of total have grown in the past two decades, their contribution to the beef supply has become more important

Why shouldn’t we consider most “generative AI” plagiarism of others thoughts, work, and creativity?