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Pasture Values

Where will it end? 

Private grazing rates across the Western U.S. climbed more than 5% for the 12 months through January to $14.50/animal unit month (AUM). That’s up from last year’s 4.5% pace, according to the latest USDA January Cattle Survey. Yet, given the developing profit squeeze caused by steeply rising feed prices and other production costs, market participants say lease rates will eventually have to retreat...

Pasture Cools 

Robust demand for recreational tracts, strong livestock profits and high grain prices continue to fuel the strong bull run in the pasture and rangeland...

Land values up again 

Farmland values, driven by high crop prices, continue to surge, according to the Federal Land Bank of Kansas City's Quarterly Ag Credit Survey. First-quarter,...

Land Values Continue On The Upswing 

Farmland values, driven by high crop prices, are surging at a pace not seen since the 1980s in some states, according to the Federal Land Bank of Kansas City's Quarterly Ag Credit Survey...

Pastureland Survey Shows Lease Rates Still Climbing 

Lingering drought and strong cattle prices combined to push private grazing rates up 4.5% this year to $13.80/animal unit month (AUM) across the Western U.S...

Outside Capital Keeps Ranchland Values Rolling 

Outside Money 

An October auction of the historic Rogler Ranch one of the Kansas Flint Hills' best-known spreads set a new area high when it fetched an average $1,696/acre,...

Still Rollin' 

Jim Warren tossed his hat into the electronic identification (EID) ring more than two years ago. The principal owner of 101 Livestock Market, Inc., Aromas,...

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Jim Gerrish

Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut

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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...

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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...

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