Chewing The Cud

Want to be a part of a really sweet contest? The National Beef Ambassadors have a challenge for you! Videotape footage of where and when or how you enjoy beef, and place the video on YouTube. Send the video to the ambies. Tshirts and an IPod Touch will be given away! Check it out here!

To all my readers, I'm sorry for my long absence. Little "I" took over SDSU's campus last week, leaving me busy with 17 judging contests, a sheep, a bull, three machinery sales contests, an ag product sales contest, agronomy show, and round robin showmanship. I competed in ALL of that to win the coveted High Point Upperclassmen Award. It was a busy week, and now it's back to the grind stone. Stay tuned for exciting adventures to come. Start shooting that video!

Missing in Action is 20-year-old SDSU Ag Journalism major, Amanda Nolz. Last seen or heard from on this blog site on April 8, 2008! Blue eyes, brown hair, 5' 3", full of witty banter, and a passion for the beef industry. Do you know her? Have you seen this girl?

She certainly hasn't been around to compete in the totally awesome "More Beef in More Places Contest" hosted by the 2008 National Beef Ambassador Team. Deadline is coming soon, check it out now!

She wasn't out helping her fellow beef bloggers write about the environment. See Chris' story here.

She also hasn't been around to visit up with her fellow bloggies Melissa and Daren. If you have time, check out their adventures in agriculture!

So where has this girl been anyway?

I heard she was seen promoting Trent Loos' arrival to SDSU, May 1st, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. Head to Brookings for good food, friends, and a great speaker!

She was also spotted promoting the All American Beef Batallion's very first steak feed for the troops on April 26, 2008 in Kansas. If you haven't heard about this group, check out their website and find out what heroic veterans and cattlemen can accomplish to honor our nation's freedom fighters.

She has also been seen in the library, studying up her Spanish for her month study abroad trip to Argentina in June.

Oh, but wait! I know where she must be! She is sitting at her desk, writing stories about the beef industry for the Farmers' Advance and the Tri-State Livestock News. On top of that, she is polishing up her portfolio for her 7 week internship with BEEF Magazine.

IMPORTANT:
If you see this girl, tell her to go home immediately and visit all her new baby calves (and her parents and sisters of course.) She is armed with a notebook and a lap top, and she is dangerously always on the move. We must not delay in detaining this girl and reminding her that agriculture is all about enjoying the beauty of nature and appreciating agriculture and food production! Please report back for further sightings of the college student.