Guest User

March 22, 2020

#MomLife, Cattle, Chickens, Ask A Farmer, Ranching, Wheat

Antibiotics in Meat | Worried About Them? See What Farm Moms Say

Guest User

March 22, 2020

#MomLife, Cattle, Chickens, Ask A Farmer, Ranching, Wheat

Antibiotics in Meat | Worried About Them? See What Farm Moms Say

Should you be worried about antibiotics in meat you buy for your family? Why are antibiotics given to livestock? Is human health impacted by eating meat from animals given antibiotics? We’ve got these answers and more!

Guest User

February 28, 2020

Volunteers, Ask A Farmer, Cattle

Cow Farms | Creating Happy Heifers

Guest User

February 28, 2020

Volunteers, Ask A Farmer, Cattle

The first two years of a dairy heifer’s life can start her off for a healthy and productive future. That’s what my husband and I do for 11,000 calves. In many ways, we’re like a pre-school.

Jodi Oleen

November 30, 2018

#MomLife, Cattle

What "Good" Moms Eat

Jodi Oleen

November 30, 2018

#MomLife, Cattle

My daughter is nearly 18 months old right now. It’s the perfect age to remember all the things you were going to do as the “perfect” parent — and it’s been long enough to have broken most of those rules already.

Jodi Oleen

November 25, 2018

Ask A Farmer, Cattle, Farming

We Hear You | Kansas Dairy

Jodi Oleen

November 25, 2018

Ask A Farmer, Cattle, Farming

On a typical farm, producers harvest their commodity and sell it to a company or cooperative, which turns it into something you might see a grocery store. That’s the way our farm operated from about 1930 until 2007 when our family decided to build a processing plant.

Jodi Oleen

November 25, 2018

Cattle, Corn, Farming, Soybeans, Wheat, Ask A Farmer

How to Support Family Farming: Fill a Grocery Cart

Jodi Oleen

November 25, 2018

Cattle, Corn, Farming, Soybeans, Wheat, Ask A Farmer

How to Support Family Farming: Fill a Grocery Cart

Buy local” is a phrase I hear often — even in rural America. As a farmer, my job is to put safe, healthy foods on tables across America. That includes my local community.

Jodi Oleen

November 23, 2018

Farming, Cattle, Soybeans, Corn, Wheat, Chickens

Sustainable Farming From a Farmer's Perspective

Jodi Oleen

November 23, 2018

Farming, Cattle, Soybeans, Corn, Wheat, Chickens

Sustainable Farming From a Farmer's Perspective

Chances are, you’ve seen “sustainably farmed” labels at your grocery store. Did you ever stop to wonder what that means? Like many confusing food labels, the definition is not universal. In fact, sustainability can mean different things from one farm to another.

Jodi Oleen

November 23, 2018

Ranching, Cattle, Ask A Farmer

Going From Vegetarian to Cattle Farmer

Jodi Oleen

November 23, 2018

Ranching, Cattle, Ask A Farmer

I spent years trading hamburgers for veggie patties, a “morally-conscious” food consumer who sought organic, natural ingredients whenever possible. Growing up in the city, I didn’t really understand how our food was grown. That is, until I left and started raising cattle myself.

Guest User

November 15, 2018

Cattle, Corn, Farming, Volunteers, Wheat

What Does a Farmer Do

Guest User

November 15, 2018

Cattle, Corn, Farming, Volunteers, Wheat

Krystale is part of a fourth-generation family farm outside Lawrence, Kan., and a full-time operations manager for an insurance company. She and her husband, Lowell, are raising their two kids while growing crops and running a small beef cattle feedlot. Krystale is an expert multi-tasker and fits in hobbies like baking, writing, running and reading.

Have you ever wondered who is growing your food and if it’s safe?

At CommonGround, we help you find the answers. We are a group of farmer volunteers having conversations about the food we grow and how we produce it.

We share our personal experiences, as well as science and research, to help our fellow consumers sort through the myths and misinformation surrounding food and farming.