Temple Grandin answered questions from users of the social forum Reddit's /r/science section on Monday, Nov. 17. Grandin's responses dealt with topics ranging from autism to cattle to life as a woman in the industry. Here's some of the questions she answered:

Here’s a look at the Progressive Cattleman stories that gathered the most online traffic over the past year.

Kathryn Carruth has been hired as the new executive director of the American National CattleWomen Inc. (ANCW). She is relocating to Denver from England where she has just completed her master’s in international rural development: sustainable agriculture and food security at Royal Agricultural University.

Feedlot veterinarian and animal-handling consultant Dr. Tom Noffsinger demonstrates practices that enable voluntary movement of cattle at the 2014 International Cattle Welfare Symposium. Check out Part 2 of this video series.

A good majority of online readers believe that the Secretary of Agriculture’s plan for a supplemental beef checkoff is a bad idea.

Beef producers are entering a dynamic era in production agriculture, said New Mexico State University’s Lowell Catlett, which will be shaped largely by the growing differentiation in food products sought by today’s consumer.

While attending the National Angus Convention and Trade Show in Kansas City this week (temperatures in the mid 60s), producers from the plains of South Carolina informed me their herds saw snow for the first time ever in the month of November. In fact, it was the earliest recorded November snow in South Carolina in over 120 years. 

With September being another strong month for red meat export value, both U.S. beef and U.S. pork exports broke the $5 billion dollar mark for the first three quarters of the year, according to statistics released by the USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

More than 50 veterinarians, laboratory personnel, researchers and animal health company officials participated in the Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Eradication: Reality or Myth? Symposium on Oct. 13 in Kansas City, Missouri.

The choice retail beef and all fresh beef demand (AFBD) indices for the third quarter of 2014 each rose by 3.9 percent. There now have been year-over-year increases in the AFBD index in 16 of the last 17 quarters (only exception was Q1 2014).