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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.
Going Head To Head
A comparative analysis is the single, most powerful, farm and ranch management tool available. It's a tool that works especially well as a way to identify...
Managing For Better Or Worse
During the last decade, my high-profit Integrated Resource Management (IRM) cooperators demonstrated that the herds that best survive the market's volatile...
The Importance Of UCOP
Beef producers traditionally have focused their beef cow management attention on physical production traits. Typically, this has meant that weaning weights...
Brazil, 33 years later
In early February, my wife and I accompanied a farm and ranch tour of Brazil sponsored by BEEF and The Corn And Soybean Digest (formerly Soybean Digest)...
So Happy Together
Given rising carcass weights, increased production costs and unpredictable market prices, astute beef-cow producers are always searching for more efficient,...
Feeder cattle price cycles (part II)
This current turnaround phase of the cattle cycle is generating considerable uncertainty among beef cow producers. Typically, marketing factors in this...
Feeder cattle price cycles
Since many beef cow producers don't sell their calves at weaning, a common question to me is how can backgrounders and/or stocker operators make the cattle...
Market strategies for 2001 calves
Given all that's transpired in the past eight months, should a rancher market his 2001 calves differently than other years? There's no easy answer. This...
From Our Columnists
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...
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...
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...
