Andy Vance

I spend a great deal of my time writing, given my profession, and especially now in graduate school at Ohio State (well, I probably spend as much time reading now, but that’s neither here nor there). With the amount of writing I’m doing for Ohio State, Feedstuffs, Beef Producer, and other publications, I thought I’d [...]

Earlier this week my editor at BeefProducer.com, Alan Newport, wrote an interesting post at his blog about what I might call the “integrity gap” with my generation that sparked a fair bit of social commentary. (In truth, I am neither Generation X, nor Generation Y, or am perhaps of both. The years 1981/1982 appear to [...]

One of my favorite YouTube Channels is the Vlog Brothers. Well, point of fact, I haven’t actually watched that many of their videos, but after I saw this Hank Green gem, I was hooked. So much so that I watch two or three of Hank’s videos every year, regardless of what’s going on in the [...]

For the past several years, agriculture leaders and communications professionals spent considerable time and effort considering how we as farmers and ranchers speak to our consumer friends and neighbors. Due in no small part to the continued onslaught of animal rights and environmental activists, efforts to connect with and communicate directly to the public proliferated [...]

I’m given, from time to time, to going back and reading something I wrote “back in the day.” For some reason, I found myself reading the first blog post I ever wrote, from way back in February, 2006. It may be that I am considered, by some at least, a writer by trade and profession. [...]