AmericanCowman.com - Dedicated to America's family cattle operations.

Beef TV

2008 Minnesota State Cattlemen's Tour

MN State Cattlemens Tour: Producer Spotlights

BEEFtv interviewed five producers attending the 2008 Minnesota State Cattlemen's Tour held in Jackson and Cottonwood Counties. The five cattlemen offer their thoughts on the tour and the state of the beef industry...

MN State Cattlemens Tour: Englin Farm

After a tornado destroyed this farm, the Englin family worked to make this natural feedlot and cow-calf operation even better than before...

MN State Cattlemens Tour: Dry Creek Ranch

feedlot has its own trucking business, lowering input costs by shipping their own cattle to market...

MN State Cattlemens Tour: Delton Angus Farm

This small Angus cow-calf operation found its niche in the market place through freezer beef sales and working with their neighbor to reduce costs....

MN State Cattlemens Tour: Wheelin'D Red Angus Ranch

While many operations are passed down through the generations, Wheelin'D Ranch exemplies how to establish a successful operation from scratch...

Presentations from the 2007 Beef Quality Summit:

Ruth's Chris Steakhouse - Marketing U.S. Prime Beef 

Mike Connelly, SW Region VP for Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, describes their restaurant operations, and discusses their concerns about marketing U.S. Prime beef

Are We Filling the Demand for Quality Beef? - the Certified Angus Beef perspective. 

Larry Corah, Vice President for Certified Angus Beef, LLC, discusses beef consumer preferences, and challenges the industry to

Ethanol Effect on Beef Quailty 

Alan Janzen, Owner of Circle Five Beef, Inc, Henderson, NE, discusses his extensive experience utilizing corn distillers' by-products in his feedyards since 1995. He reports using

Current Trends in Feeding Ethanol Co-Products "Technicalities of Nutrition and Quality" 

Kip Karges, Nutritionist with Poet Nutrition, describes the ethanol distilling processes that produce various ethanol co-products

Distillers Grains Use in High Plains Feedyards 

Chris Reinhardt, Extension Feedlot Specialist at Kansas State University, compares and contrasts the availability and profitable use of distillers grains in the high plains vs the cornbelt

1 | 2 | Next

From Our Columnists

Jim Gerrish

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...

Jim Gerrish Archive

Harlan Hughes

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...

Harlan Hughes Archive

Mark Hilton

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...

Vet's Opinion Archive

Browse Back Issues

BQS: View Details and Register Online!

American Cowman

www.AmericanCowman.com

Latest Jobs

Marketplace Ads

  • Hubbard Feeds, Inc

    Download free tools, sign-up for newsletters, browse nutrition products.

  • Your ad Here!

    Advertise your business here! Find out how.

  • Ag Maps for sale

    Ag Maps for Sale!

Resources

  • Western Art Prints
  • Beef Quality Summit
  • 2007 Fencing Guide
  • 2008 Feed Composition Tables
  • Cattlemen's Calendar
  • Biosecurity
  • 2007 Alliance Yellow Pages
  • Estate Planning
  • Calf Health
  • RFID Suppliers
  • State of the Industry
  • Free Product Info