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
Cattle Handling
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....
We Can’t Forget Who Stands Against Us
Stung by the recent success of the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) in garnering public attention, People ...
Take It Easy
It's wonderful to see the increasing emphasis cattle producers are putting on low-stress cattle handling. Handling cattle quietly has many benefits, including...
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...
