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Should we just accept and adapt?
Accept and adapt has certainly been the rallying cry of leading management gurus regarding the government-created ethanol boom. These experts have a valid...
It's Stock Show Time In Denver
Football has the Super Bowl, soccer has the World Cup, and baseball has its World Series. For the seedstock and show industries, it's the National Western Stock Show (NWSS), ...
Clones Are Halfway To Approval -- Consumers Are Next
The biggest news of the week was the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) announcement that clones from cattle, swine and goats are safe for human consumption. ...
I don't get it, but I understand it
I don't get it, but I understand it, is a phrase worthy of legendary baseball sage and manager Yogi Berra. But that brilliant piece of wisdom was actually...
Packer ban is a step backwards
At press time, the Senate Agriculture Committee had just included language that would place a ban on packer ownership of livestock - in the Senate version...
The Ever-Changing Retail Meat Case
The 2007 National Meat Case Study looked at more than 123,000 packages in 121 stores in 48 different markets, comparing its findings with those of a similar study in 2004....
Quality Vs. Cost Is The Real Divide In The Industry
The recent confrontation between those opposed to the value-based changes that have occurred in the marketplace and those supporting them have deep philosophical and psychological underpinnings that have been written about for ages. ...
Packer-Ownership Ban Survives Senate Committee
The Senate Ag Committee included language that would place a ban on packer ownership of livestock in the Senate version of the farm bill. ...
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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...
