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About Harlan Hughes
A North Dakota State University professor emeritus, Harlan Hughes writes "Market Advisor," a monthly column in BEEF magazine, and he makes presentations at many state, regional and national beef industry events. He retired as the NDSU Extension livestock economist in 2000 and now lives in Laramie, WY.
Contact Prof. Hughes at 701/238-9607 or e-mail Harlan: harlan.hughes@gte.net.
Costs & returns: Part III
This series of articles is designed to help ranchers manage through today's tough economic times as economic pressures build on the beef-cow sector. Part...
Costs & returns: Part II
Particularly in today's tough economic times, there are three red flag/green flag business measures on which astute ranchers should focus, and all are...
Costs & returns: Part I
Our national economic crisis is impacting beef-cow producers. In fact, my latest monthly price analysis and management implications study suggests all...
Marketing in the new conditions
I'm not sure the general public really appreciates how close this country was to an economic meltdown in September/October 2008. There's little doubt...
Economy's effect on ranchers
So what's the projected impact of the financial crisis on ranchers? The value of the U.S. dollar is going to be a major driver of beef exports, and beef...
Lowering your breakeven - part II
This month, I'll share a primary database I use in benchmarking a ranch. The data is taken from the 2007 annual North Dakota Farm Business Management...
Lowering your breakeven calf price
Benchmarking is among the most powerful ranch-management tools available to ranch managers, and one of the least used. A key reason for its lack of use...
Marketing 2008 calves
Part V in a series of changing corn environment. The corn market is proving to be as volatile as predicted. With the impact of the Midwest floods less...
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...
