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Thanks, W.D.
One of the industry's all-time great leaders and innovators passed away this week. W.D. Farr, the patriarch of an internationally known family cattle-feeding enterprise recognized for many ...
Lot Of Reasons To Be Bullish On The Cattle Market
The recent run-up in prices has been exciting for cattle feeders, stocker operators and cow-calf producers who are contracting calves....
National ID Is The Tale Of A Two-Tiered Market
It struck me this week just how much dichotomy we're seeing in the beef industry over the whole question of national livestock ID. This week, the American Angus Association announced ...
Some Musings On Time Management
I've always thought that if I could manage my time more effectively, I could rule the world. Peter Drucker said it a whole lot more eloquently -- "Time is the scarcest resource...
The COOL Compromise Is Typical Of The Beltway
After years of delaying the implementation of mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) because of the problems associated with the law, it had come down to crunch time. ...
Being different pays
Even with historically high cattle prices, buyers are willing to pay more for cattle that reduce their risk, be it in terms of health, the ability to...
Cutting out the middle man
Expect major and accelerated consolidation in the U.S. cattle-feeding sector in the next 5-10 years, says economist and consultant Bill Helming of Olathe,...
The New Flavor Of The Farm Bill
In years past, most of agriculture was on the same page. Packers, processors, feedlots, cow-calf producers, corn growers, and even the competing protein products, were mostly on the same side of the fence when it came to the farm bill. In fact, there was ...
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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...























