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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 ...

Can You Plan Around The Oil/Ethanol Bubbles? 

Everyone realizes the recent surge in oil prices has been largely speculation-based, and ethanol even more so. What could be more speculative than a product that can't compete without huge government subsidies, and ...

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From Our Columnists

Jim Gerrish

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...

Jim Gerrish Archive

Harlan Hughes

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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