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USDA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration published a proposed rule June 22 that could prohibit packers from paying more for some cattle than others, and could derail current value-added marketing agreements between feedlots and packers.

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Higher Cattle Prices Provide Producers With Hope of Profits

Just when cattle producers' long-awaited rally appeared to falter, some hot temperatures in Kansas have put life into cattle and meat prices....

Protein Labeling Study Spotlights Consumer Needs On Beef Packages

The Beef Checkoff Program, the National Pork Board and Yerecic Label announces the completion of Phase One of the second Protein Labeling Study (PLS II). ...

HSUS Muddies The Truth About Its Real Mission

We think that Darci Adams "doth protest too much" when she attempts to defend the Humane Society of the U.S. as an organization concerned about animal care....

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Perhaps I am On A Different Planet

Jul 23, 2010 1:08 PM, Troy Marshall

I’ve always struggled with the whole populist thing. The movement’s canned rhetoric, with all its emotional triggers and very few facts, seems like a foolish way to make decisions to me. It comes with almost a religious zeal to it that, while it has some sizzle to it, usually falls pretty short on actual meat. It’s loaded with buzzwords meant to solicit automatic negative responses without thought and, of course, it has to create some evil that the movement is valiantly opposing. ...

Groups Want End To Ethanol Subsidies, Protective Tariff

Jul 23, 2010 1:04 PM

The nation’s largest livestock and poultry trade associations want legislators to allow the 30-year-old tax credit and a protective tariff for ethanol to expire as scheduled at the end of the year. The request was made in a letter signed by the American Meat Institute, the National Turkey Federation, the National Chicken Council, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the National Pork Producers Council and the National Meat Association....

Current Issue: July 2010

Animal Welfare Grows Weaning Success

By Wes Ishmael, Contributing Editor

Though seldom viewed through the same prism, the breeding and management decisions that add up to weaning performance are the same ones that add to cattle welfare...

How to add value To Calves

Jul 2, 2010 12:48 PM, W. Mark Hilton

Let’s look at some proven cost-management practices that add value to calves. Lot size. Studies show larger lots add value...

We’re here to help (Readers say ‘no thanks’ to government help on marketing)

Jul 2, 2010 12:32 PM

On June 22, USDA published its proposed rule aimed at “increasing fairness in the marketing of livestock and poultry.” The document seems to apply most to the poultry sector, but, as expected, it drew bravos and boos...

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