Andy Vance

I’ve always been a fan (historically speaking, that is) of Harry S Truman. Perhaps I like him because he was a farm boy from Missouri who always kept that certain sensibility that comes from growing up with dirt on your hands and from raising livestock. Or perhaps I like him because of that “give ‘em [...]

Last week I spent a few days in our nation’s capital with leaders of the Animal Agriculture Alliance. Gathering for the group’s annual stakeholder’s summit in Arlington, I was honored to address the group as part of a panel on engaging the media on controversial issues. As I shared with the group during my mid-afternoon [...]

I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds – achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years. [...]

In yet another example of an emotionally-charged solution completely missing the mark on the actual cause of an important problem, hating dog breeders has become the hottest social trend. Let’s start with the legitimate problem: each year, somewhere between 6 and 8 million unwanted, stray or otherwise neglected animals are taken in by local animal [...]

Editor’s note: Before I started this blog in late 2010, I blogged for five years at BuckeyeAg.com. When I left the radio network that fall, my old blog posts were, much to my dismay, lost in cyberpurgatory forever. In a fluke of Google the other day, I came across a post that I wrote in [...]