Cattle Market Update
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2007 BEEF Quality Summit Presentations
Cattle Handling
Safe Makes For Safety
All the recent industry emphasis on low-stress, quiet methods of cattle handling has an added benefit reducing workplace injuries. In fact, an analysis...
Temple Hits HBO
The U.S. beef industry will be front and center of America on Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. (EST). That marks the premiere on HBO of a biopic entitled Temple Grandin....
Why So Wild?
Recently I had a scary experience at a feedlot with wild, agitated cattle. When I brought a group up to the crowd pen in the processing area, the cattle...
Humane monitoring remote video auditing of cattle handling
Cargill expects to have third-party, 24/7 video auditing in place in all its U.S. beef harvesting plants by year's end. The aim is to further enhance...
HSUS Plots To Make Underwood Top Country Artist
The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS), the most radical animal rights and anti-hunting organization in the U.S., is plotting to make country artist and vegetarian Carrie Underwood the Academy of Country Music Awards’ Entertainer of the Year. ...
Letter from Errol
Reader Errol Wells of Elba, NE made my and DVM Mike Apley's day last month. Wells e-mailed me to say he'd recently responded to an article in his local...
HSUS wish list
The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) issued its wish list for USDA: A comprehensive ban on slaughter of downer cattle and increased oversight of the...
HSUS Delivers Its Federal Agenda
The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) has listed the issues it wants the various federal agencies to address....
From Our Columnists
Tracking failure
"Hard to believe six years have passed since the cow bearing BSE stole Christmas in the U.S. Harder to believe there's still no cattle and beef industry...
The next decade: Part I
I truly believe ranching in the next decade will not be "business as usual." Thus, my next few columns will look to stimulate ranchers'...
No Silver Bullet
I think I can speak for all the “Vet's Opinion” authors in saying that we enjoy feedback on our columns, particularly when a correspondent gives...



























