We’re one month into 2012 but it’s not too late for me to share my wish list for the U.S. beef industry for this year. Topping my list, as you might expect, is my hope that Americans continue to support beef as much as they did last year. For we all know that demand, not supply, will determine how high beef and cattle prices go this year. My other wishes for 2012, in no particular order, include:...More

As the saying goes, it’s hard to soar with the eagles when you strut with the turkeys. This has become a real issue with agriculture and how it works with the activist groups aligned against us. Too often, the ag industry has negotiated with groups like the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) to avoid ballot initiatives that those states may not have won and/or couldn’t afford. But groups like HSUS will just be back again, only with bigger war chests and more leverage, to win the war by attrition....More