Sustainable Food Choices Archives - Farmer's Daughter Consulting

A Beef Club? I Want to Join!

October 9, 2020 No Comments Beef, Cattle, Drought, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Farm Life, Food & Flavor, Sustainable Food Choices, The Business of Farming

While working on an olive oil project for a client, I came across information about a local tribe with a large cattle ranch offering membership in their beef club. As someone who grew up on a farm with a cow-calf operation and loved the flavor of grass-fed beef from our cattle, I wanted to join the club. And I wanted

A Passion for Quality

December 19, 2019 No Comments Cattle, Facts About Farming, Lean Beef, Sustainable Food Choices, The Business of Farming

“Beef quality is far more than degree of marbling and a quality eating experience.” — Rick Machen, PhD, Paul Genho Endowed Chairholder and Professor at the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management at Texas A&M University-Kingsville

The Many Merits of Mediterranean-Style Eating

October 17, 2019 No Comments Building a Balanced Diet, Lean Beef, Sustainable Food Choices, World Cuisines

By Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND DISCLOSURE: This post is a collaboration with Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner., on behalf of the Beef Checkoff, as part of my role as a compensated member of the Beef Expert Bureau. As a dietitian, I’m amazed by all the fad diets people are willing to try, often at the expense of enjoyment

Unanswered Questions: Sustainable Nutrition and Beef

April 17, 2019 No Comments Lean Beef, Sustainable Food Choices

DISCLOSURE: I am a member of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Beef Expert Bureau, which is funded by the Beef Checkoff. On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 I co-presented on a webinar titled, “How Do We Feed the Future Without Eating the Planet? Examining the Human and Environmental Impacts of Beef Production.” The other presenter was Dr. Sara Place, the Senior

The Ignorance and Arrogance of So-Called Experts

January 29, 2019 No Comments Dairy, Farm Life, Sustainable Food Choices, The Business of Farming

Disclosure: While I am a National Dairy Council Ambassador and a member of the Beef Checkoff Beef Expert Bureau, I was not asked to or compensated for writing this blog. The views expressed in this piece are my own. I recently heard the most cited nutrition researcher in the world say, “We need to eliminate feeding grain to cattle. The

From Feedlot to Fabrication: The Business of Sustainable Beef Production

September 29, 2017 No Comments Food & Flavor, Lean Beef, Sustainable Food Choices, Thanks & Gratitude, The Business of Farming

By Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND | Founder & President of Farmer’s Daughter Consulting, Inc. Disclaimer: I am a member of the Beef Checkoff Beef Expert Bureau for which I receive an annual honorarium. The views expressed in this article are my own. When a colleague told me she’d gotten a new job, having left a global berry producer

Good Intentions and Unintended Consequences

September 25, 2017 No Comments Facts About Farming, Sustainable Food Choices

Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND I’m exhausted. Tired of the drama. Weary from the fight. Worried about the future. Our food system is being held hostage by activists with agendas and confused consumers with good intentions who are making demands without understanding the consequences. Every time I see another product labeled “GMO-free” I cringe. Do my cats really need

Ferment and Foment: What’s the Best Diet for Dairy Cows?

July 22, 2016 No Comments Dairy, Farm Life, Food & Flavor, Sustainable Food Choices

By Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND National Dairy Council Ambassador AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article is the second is a series about my visit to Jasper Hill Farm in late May 2016 as part of a “Food Writing from the Farm” course I took at Sterling College. You can access the first article here. “Our cows are fed dry hay,

Big Isn’t Bad and Small Isn’t Superior: Why Food Choices Based on Size Make Little Sense

July 22, 2016 No Comments Dairy, Farm Life, Food & Flavor, Sustainable Food Choices

By Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND National Dairy Council Ambassador As I’m writing this I’m enjoying a few pieces of Cabot Clothbound Cheddar, a cheese I was introduced to recently during a tour of The Cellars at Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro, Vermont. Founded by brothers Andy and Mateo Kehler, Jasper Hill is well known for producing high

You’re Probably Using Bad Olive Oil

November 20, 2015 No Comments Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Food & Flavor, Sustainable Food Choices

Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND Founder & President Farmer’s Daughter Consulting, LLC The last time I was home in North Dakota I opened a bottle of extra virgin olive oil in my mom’s cabinet, smelled it, and determined it was awful? How? It smelled terrible. It was rancid; it put off more bad odors than road kill on a