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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
We’re all regulators
During the week I'm chairman and CEO of a large national food company dealing with dairy products. I've been in the business 38 years and have run plants, conversion facilities and various distribution companies. I've dealt with...
Producers share the blame
Regarding the treatment of the downer dairy cows in the Chino, CA plant (“California Nightmare, March 2008 BEEF), my 45 years in the beef industry tell me...
Getting Better
Manage. Monitor. Market. That's the best advice Dan Hale gives producers eager to enhance the quality and value of culled cows and bulls they send to...
Chino fallout continues
At press time, four U.S. Senators had introduced bipartisan legislation seeking tougher penalties, including permanent closure, for firms that process...
California Nightmare
The tentacles of the largest beef recall in history – 143,383,823 lbs. – have reached all across the country. If the surreptitious video of exhausted and disabled dairy cattle being tortured...
Pressure Is As Pressure Does
It's a philosophical shift, says Dawn Hnatow, one that takes time and a little experience to achieve. But if you do make that leap of faith, you'll thank...
Move cattle safely
Master Cattle Transporter Guide is a new checkoff-funded training program (DVD and print manual) that aims to minimize injury to cattle during transportation....
Moving Cattle Safely From Ranch To Rail
"Master Cattle Transporter Guide" is a new checkoff-funded training program (DVD and print manual) that aims to minimize injury to cattle during transportation....
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
