Cattle Market Update
From Steve Kay, editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly. Catch a roundup of each week’s cattle-market activity every Friday afternoon! View the market review now!
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2007 BEEF Quality Summit Presentations
Antibiotics measure introduced
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act. Her bill would...
Real-world realities
While some rejoiced at the news, other folks were disappointed with USDA's announcement last fall that the National Animal Identification System would...
Shoo, Fly
Those old-time Chinese warriors had some pretty sage wisdom know your enemy. To that, modern combatants in the annual Fly Wars add that it's a good idea...
All Tagged Up
Michigan made history last month when it became the first state requiring electronic ID tags on all cattle moving off the farm in commerce...
Are You Prepared To Document Your Animal Welfare?
This week, Burger King announced its plans to eliminate the use of crates among its pork and poultry suppliers...
Michigan Mandatory RFID Program Goes Well
Michigan's mandatory electronic-ID program for cattle went into effect March 1, and the nation's first statewide, comprehensive, electronic, animal-health tracking system for cattle ...
Eliminating PI Animals Makes Economic Sense
Montana cattle ranchers still have time to screen their herds for animals persistently infected (PI) with the bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) virus. And the managers of the Montana BVD-PI Herd Screening Project...
Understanding What Vaccine Label Claims Mean
Vaccines are an essential tool for aiding in the prevention and control of infectious diseases in cattle. There are more than 200 vaccines and vaccine combinations...
From Our Columnists
Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
























