Steve Kay is editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly (www.cattlebuyersweekly.com ) subscription newsletter, the number-one marketing and business newsletter for the meat and livestock industry. He provides BEEF readers with beef-specific information and analysis on the North American meat and livestock industry. He also provides a weekly cattle market roundup each Friday afternoon at beefmagazine.com.
The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence. Sometimes it’s browner. Just ask cattle producers in Argentina and Australia. They’ve....More
Cattle producers should be pretty happy right now. Prices for calves, yearlings and fed cattle were all 13% higher the last week of July than a year....More
It’s disturbing how one individual has the potential to cause so much damage to an industry. You might know that Mississippi attorney and one-time....More
USDA has gotten into the map-making business, and the results are blurry, to say the least. USDA announced in late May that it had identified so-....More
The E. coli “season” is upon the industry again; it rolls around each summer when shedding spikes for still unknown scientific reasons. Many are....More
Never let the facts get in the way of one's prejudices. That seems to be the mantra for some critics of the packing industry. From claims about....More