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August 2012 BEEF Magazine Issue

Highlights in our Coordinated Animal Health & Marketing Programs Issue include:

Don't Handicap Our Productive Capacity

Top Utility Tractors For 2012

Synchronizing Their Cows Led The Way

Industry’s Future Is In Sector Collaboration

Marketing

  • Jul. 25, 2012
    Datasheet

    29 Top Value-Based Marketing Alliances

    Here are the latest listings of the U.S. beef industry’s top value-based marketing alliances for cattle and calves. This 2012 edition is the 15th annual listing by BEEF magazine and includes a total of 29 programs categorized by consumer-based programs and calf-based programs....More

Business

  • Jul. 25, 2012
    Article

    Grow The Pie; Don’t Fight Over Scraps

    Chances are that capital requirements will preclude any single entity from ever owning a significant vertically integrated supply chain in the beef industry, says Bill Rupp, president of the JBS U.S. Beef Division (JBS)....More
  • Jul. 25, 2012
    Article

    Learn To Manage Work Stress

    Running a feedyard is stressful. Always has been. But the last few years have taken on a particularly grim patina as a whirlwind of factors have come to confluence in ways that challenge managers and owners like never before. And that ratchets up an already stressful job that seems to get one click tighter with every market report that lights up the monitor....More
  • Jul. 25, 2012
    Article

    Synchronizing Their Cows Led The Way

    What’s the best decision you’ve ever made for your ranch? Glenfield, ND, Angus breeders Justin and Nathan Spickler say it’s replacing heat detection with a synchronization program during artificial insemination (AI) – and it happened out of necessity....More

Genetics

  • Jul. 25, 2012
    Article

    Bos Indicus Cross Boasts Carcass Quality 9

    It’s a typical East Texas summer day – about 110° and sticky. But you won’t see any of Bill Travis’ cattle standing in a stock tank to cool off. His Bos indicus cross is built for heat. And their quality tops 80% Choice....More
  • Jul. 25, 2012
    Article

    Solving Pregnancy Loss In Cattle

    Once a cow is bred, she should calve about 283 days later. However, sometimes the pregnancy is lost. Late pregnancy loss is usually visible; you find the aborted fetus or the cow with placental membranes hanging from the vulva. “But with early pregnancy loss, you don’t have a clue,” says Ahmed Tibary, DVM and Washington State University (WSU) professor of theriogenology....More

Industry Series - Connecting The Dots

  • Jul. 27, 2012
    Article

    The Story Of Beef From Gate To Plate 2

    Fragmentation is both the blessing and curse of the U.S. beef cattle industry. The equity required for production – land, feed, cattle, etc. – is so steep per head that the odds of any single entity ever owning a significant percentage of the industry, as is the case in pork and poultry, is remote at best....More

Columns

  • Jul. 25, 2012
    Article

    Don't Handicap Our Productive Capacity

    New research presented last month by Washington State University’s Jude Capper provides an eye-opening perspective on how modern technology in beef production not only feeds the world more efficiently but boosts the environment....More
  • Jul. 25, 2012
    blog

    Industry’s Future Is In Sector Collaboration 1

    There’s exponentially more vertical cooperation today than there was then, everything from branded beef programs and special feeder cattle sales to a slew of value-based grids for fed cattle. But the current industry is less a series of supply chains sorting out product that doesn’t fit added value programs and more of a central channel sorting in products that do....More
  • Jul. 11, 2012
    blog

    Egg Producers Acquiescence To HSUS Is Worrisome 4

    The science of animal welfare is ever-evolving. That’s why a federally legislated approach to animal well being, such as that pushed by United Egg Producers and HSUS in the Senate version of the 2012 farm bill, just doesn’t make a lot of sense. Food producers can be much more responsive to new developments when their progress isn’t impeded by federal mandates....More
  • Jul. 11, 2012
    blog

    Study Herd Performance In Developing A Drought Strategy

    How your herd has been performing economically should play a critical role in your drought management plan. Producers need to know the economic performance of their beef cowherd during its last normal year before they formulate their optimal drought strategy for this year....More
  • Jul. 25, 2012
    blog

    Profit Per Cow, Or Per Acre? 5

    As livestock producers we often focus on productivity per cow. But that focus, along with intensive selection for growth, hasn’t done much to improve ranch profitability over the last 40 years. In fact, it could be argued that, in constant dollars or buying power, profit per acre has even decreased. Thus, the real measure should be profit per acre or whole ranch profitability....More
  • Jun. 21, 2012
    blog

    The Balancing Act Of Consumer Perception 3

    With today’s consumers far removed from first-hand knowledge of the production process, they are increasingly being swayed to the belief that modern agriculture is somehow bad for consumers and/or producers. Thus, the industry must not only develop a more comprehensive strategy to defend valid production practices, but be proactive rather than reactive in the process....More
  • Jul. 19, 2012
    blog

    Mother Nature Throws A Wrench Into 2012 1

    On the heels of last year’s disastrous drought in the Southwest, a promising spring crop forecast has devolved into a looming disaster as high heat and lack of moisture cook Midwest grain fields....More

Research Roundup

  • Jul. 25, 2012
    Article

    Considerations For Replacing Open Cows

    Current economic and disease considerations suggest that it’s better for cow-calf producers to cull open cows after the breeding season and replace them with home-raised retained heifers and purchased bred cows....More
  • Jul. 25, 2012
    Article

    Examining Lifetime Cow Productivity 1

    Lifetime productivity of a beef cow begins at the conception of her first calf as a heifer. Replacement heifers conceiving earlier in their first breeding season will calve early in subsequent calving seasons and have greater longevity and lifetime productivity than heifers that conceive later in their first breeding season....More

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