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Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Dec 30, 2023
Dec 30, 2023

Artifical cow — AI is in the news. But for producers AI means two very different things – artificial intelligence and artificial insemination. The difference confuses Ole and Ted.
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Chris Hardie For Agri-View

Back in the days when I ran newsrooms I was fond of telling folks that the simplest definition of news is “what people are talking about.”

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Chris Hardie and his wife, Sherry, raise animals and crops on his great-grandparents’ Jackson County farm. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, he’s a former member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and past-president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Email chardie1963@gmail.com with comments.