Tag: Featured Articles


The Experience of Beef
By Kristin Mackey, Contributing Editor This is the first in a two-part series about the writer’s enthusiastic foray into ranch life. Beef. It’s more than


Fabricating Your Food
The Ins and Outs of Fake Meat By Gilda Bryant, Contributing Editor Lab-cultured meat products may be coming to a meat counter near you. Also


The Giles Family and the Kansas Wildfire
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor There are certain things we can do to prepare for a blizzard, not much we can do for a flood


Dairy in the Desert
By Aly McClure, Contributing Editor There has been a change in western Kansas’ scenery that’s been shifting for quite a while. It began with the


Caviness Beef Packers
By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor As the head cattle buyer for a regional packer in Roswell and Amarillo in the late 1950s, Pete Caviness dreamed


Airwave Maven
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor We listen to her. We wait for the clear, silky voice to come over our radios, and we hope that,


CALF’s Featured Lady – Mandy Raithel
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor
There’s only one accurate word to describe Mandy Raithel: multitalented. Raithel’s abilities are not only many, they span as wide a spectrum as one can imagine.