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Is Global Warming Building Steam Or Cooling Off?
Perhaps more than any other scientific issue, global warming has been difficult to assess, primarily because it so quickly became politicized in ...
2008 Across-Breed EPD Table Released
The table of adjustment factors to be used to estimate across-breed expected progeny differences (AB-EPDs) for 16 breeds was presented ...
Bill Mies Looks At The Industry’s Next 12-18 Months
It doesn't take Bill Mies long to roll out his best-case scenario for the next 18 months. That's because the beef management consultant, and former ...
Forage Prices Haven’t Yet Caught Up With Corn Prices
To help put the change in feed costs the last couple of years into perspective, James Mintert, Kansas State ...
Guard Against Nitrates By Testing Forage Pre-Harvest
Hot, dry summer weather brings about heat and drought stress on summer forage crops. Stressed plants such ...
EU Farmers Take To The Streets Over Prices
The summer of 2008 may well be remembered as the year farmers stood up to say “no” to falling prices and higher ...
Tough Times In Canada
While Canada is often thought of as an extension of the U.S. due to the numerous similarities, it’s still ...
Paralyzed Today Waiting For The Changes Of Tomorrow
Change, change, change. At times, it’s difficult to sit through yet another ...
Beef Exports Continue To Climb
Exports of U.S. beef are continuing their upward trend, the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) says. During the week of June 13-19, U.S. beef export sales exceeded ...
Beef Well-Positioned For Current Economic Challenges
The beef-cattle industry is well positioned to successfully compete and thrive given record-high corn ...
Who Can Afford Corn? Almost No One, Economist Says
Inexpensive and abundant corn helped move the ethanol industry into the alternative-fuels fast...
Changing Supply/Demand Picture Reshaping Foreign Outlook
A Year Of Extremes
U.S. Beef Trade To South Korea To Resume. No, Really!
Packing Industry Struggles Continue
HSUS Videos Engender Varied Emotions
What To Do In This Negative Business Environment
This week, I received a phone call from a bright young lady preparing a speech for an upcoming national heifer show and competition. Her speech centered ...
So Is The Economy Really That Bad? Indicators Say “No”
Droughts, floods, seemingly uncontrollable market factors – I'll be the first to admit it’s easy to ...
Grandma Had Good Advice For Political Strategists
One of my grandmother’s favorite admonishments to me and my brother was that “criticizing another’s garden doesn’t keep weeds out of your own.” My favorite ...
The Seedstock Industry Has Lost A Little Confidence
Few would describe the U.S. beef industry as overly optimistic these days. After all, the prodigious and deep change wracking the beef economy has ...
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From Our Columnists
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...
