Cattle Market Update
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2007 BEEF Quality Summit Presentations
Don't Stress
Stress plays a major part in the development of respiratory disease, as well as an important role in herd health for the period of time right after calves...
More Questions
The plant needs to shoulder the blame, but responsibility also resides with whoever decided to put those cattle on the truck and send them to the plant,...
Transportation effect on calves
Calf management before transport influences later performance under stress, Canadian researchers say. Behavioral and physiological indicators of stress,...
An Ounce Of Prevention
The reverberations of the Hallmark/Westland fiasco are still rippling through the industry. Amidst the fallout, cattlemen are asking themselves how they...
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...
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...
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...
