Cattle Market Update
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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.
Bump Up Your Economic Efficiency
In light of the discovery of the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the U.S., damage control has to be foremost on ranchers' minds....
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...
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...
