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From the corral: Computer glitches

1 month ago | meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin

Within the last year, I have experienced four weird glitches in computer systems that are cause for concern on a larger scale. If similar glitches appear in processors’ computer systems, they have the potential to disrupt operations with widespread impacts. On Feb. 22, 2024, the entire network for AT&T crashed. After it recovered, there was some kind of glitch between my AT&T cell phone and United Airlines.
From the corral: Bison considerations

Oct 25, 2024 | meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin

Bison are an increasingly important part of the meat industry. At restaurants, I am seeing more and more bison products on the menu. For small producers who are getting started with raising livestock, bison may be a good choice. They are disease resistant, and they will calve without assistance. A survey conducted by NAHMS/USDA indicated that some of the top priorities for bison ranchers are environmental stewardship, parasite resistance and grazing management.
Problems with Congestive Heart Failure and Lameness That Have Increased in Grain-Fed Steers and Heifers

Sep 29, 2024 | mdpi.com | Temple Grandin

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From the corral: Growing problems

Sep 20, 2024 | meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin

Today’s fed cattle are getting bigger and bigger. Steve Kay wrote in Cattle Buyers Weekly that fed beef carcasses are 38 lbs heavier compared to June of last year. This is good from a sustainability standpoint because more pounds of quality beef are produced from fewer cattle. There are three big problems that this causes. There are increasing problems with back bruises caused by tall cattle hitting their backs when they exit from the bottom deck of a semi-trailer.
The Best Books on Autism and Developmental Psychology

Sep 16, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Mark Haddon |Werner Herzog |Temple Grandin |Steven Pinker

recommended by Simon Baron-Cohen out in paperback The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen Simon Baron-Cohen, the longstanding director of the University of Cambridge's multidisciplinary Autism Research Centre, offers some recommended reading (plus a film to watch) to help you improve your understanding of the experience of those on the autism spectrum, or of developmental psychology more generally. out in paperback The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives...
From the corral: Monitoring bruising

Aug 6, 2024 | meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin

In the five-plant fed beef survey 92% of the cattle had normal mobility. The Meat Institute’s lameness scoring system was used. The scores are: 1) normal, 2) slightly lame, and keeps up with other cattle when a group is walking, 3) more severe lameness and does not keep up with other cattle, 4) extremely reluctant to move. Most of the lame cattle were lameness score two. Many people in the industry are pleased with these lameness scores, however, 8% lame fed cattle is not something to be proud of.
We need the skills of autistic people

Jun 30, 2024 | enewspaper.denverpost.com | Temple Grandin

EDUCATION We need the skills of autistic people Recently, eating at Denver International Airport’s food court, I was alarmed reading an article explaining the backstory of Boeing’s struggles with quality and control. The article shared how in the past 20 years, rushing to find new “efficiencies,” the company put much of its production in the hands of subcontractors. As part of that process, it sold one of its major factories to a private equity firm.
Check It Out! Book reviews from Ruth Enlow Library

Jun 20, 2024 | wvnews.com | Temple Grandin |Jonathan Haidt |Dan Schreiber

OAKLAND — The Ruth Enlow Library, Garrett County’s public library system, offers reviews each month of books that are currently available for lending. The following includes the book reviews from June:Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and AbstractionsBy Temple GrandinPublished by Riverhead BooksReviewed byClinton BradleyApril is Autism Acceptance Month. Autism Spectrum Disorder is a label describing this condition.
Picturing Our Future

May 16, 2024 | aft.org | Temple Grandin

On the morning of January 28, 2022, at 6:39 a.m., the Fern Hollow Bridge, which goes through the Frick Park area of Pittsburgh, collapsed over a ravine. It was snowing that morning, so fortunately, with a delayed opening to the school day, the four-lane bridge was less heavily trafficked than usual. No lives were lost, but at least 10 people were injured. A gas pipe had also been ruptured in the collapse, and even though it was soon shut off, people in nearby homes had to be evacuated.
From the corral: Heart complications

Apr 23, 2024 | meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin

During the least 10 years, there have been increasing problems with heavy feedlot cattle suddenly dropping dead. This is due to congestive heart failure. In the past, this problem was limited to cattle residing in high altitudes and did not occur at lower altitudes. It was called brisket disease because the brisket would become swollen with fluid.