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Inventory Lowest Since '59; Demand's The Wild Card
USDA’s cattle-inventory report showed the lowest cattle inventory since 1959. The U.S. cowherd has declined in 11 of the last 14 years, making this one of the longest single periods of liquidation in history. ...
California Ranch Takes Top Stewardship Honors
Leavitt Lake Ranches of Vina, CA, was named the 2009 National Environmental Stewardship Award winner last week during the 2010 Cattle Industry Annual Convention in San Antonio....
Temple Grandin HBO Movie Debuts Tomorrow Night
Temple Grandin, a two-hour biopic about the well-known animal behaviorist and designer of animal handling facilities, debuts tomorrow night at 8 p.m. (EST) on HBO. The high-budget production covers roughly two decades of Grandin’s life, following her development as an unresponsive autistic child through to her emergence as a leading designer of animal-handling systems.
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Opinion: Lessons From The Massachusetts Election
Everyone is talking about the political consequences and the mood of today’s electorate following the stunning upset in Massachusetts this week when a little-known state senator ...
Something I Learned From MLK Day
Last Monday was Martin Luther King Day, so my three kids were home from school. I enjoyed the three additional “hands” to help me get ready for calving season. We also used the day ...
Opinion: The Politics Of Fear Switch To The Politicians
Politicians on both sides of the aisle are criticized for using fear to achieve their policy goals. The financial crisis, climate change, the list goes on. The beautiful thing about creating fear is people will not only accept that something must be done,...
Exports Continue 2009 Rebound
U.S. beef and pork exports continued to rebound from the slump earlier in the year, with pork exports reaching their highest level of 2009 in November while beef exports edged 4% above year-ago levels, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). ...
A New Year, Some New Hope
“This past year is probably one that most cattlemen are glad to have over and I am sure they are looking for better things in 2010,” says Dillon Feutz, Utah State University Extension economist...
ARS Develops Transgenic Screwworm
Transgenic screwworms developed by USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists could set the stage for new, improved methods of eradicating ...
Beef Industry, U.S. Economy Share Same Solution
I hear a lot of folks who are both discouraged and frustrated by our country's financial situation. That isn't a totally irrational feeling; after all, record deficits are now expected to at least triple in the next decade. ...
EPA Rides To The Rescue On Cap & Trade
Surveys show the U.S. public is fleeing like Tiger Woods sponsors from belief in man-made climate change. In fact, according to results of a recent study commissioned by the Nature ...
Two Years Of Work In Taiwan Goes Up In Smoke
Taiwan announced this week that it would reverse its position on the bilateral trade protocol it had just agreed to after two years of long and hard negotiations. The border won't be closed, but new and additional restrictions will make it far more difficult to access the market. ...
Calving Barn Sanitation
Imagine becoming ill and requiring overnight hospitalization. What if the hospital staff didn't have time to clean and sanitize your assigned room or bed. The bed sheets look clean enough but are unchanged from the previous ...
Lawyer Offers Strategies In Case Of An IRS Audit
Excessive business deductions by livestock or general farmers trigger IRS audits. If you’re audited in connection with any farming, livestock or horse activity, the IRS will ...
Plan Now To Protect Newborn Calves From The Cold
With some weather forecasters prognosticating that winter 2009-10 could be the worst in 25 years, appropriate management can help producers avoid frostbite and hypothermia losses among ...
Dealing With The New Reality In Export Markets
The popular press is full of articles about how the first decade of the 21st century was marked by the rise of China as a global economic power. American values and entrepreneurial capitalism has been ...
Temple Grandin Biopic To Debut On HBO On Feb. 6
The U.S. beef industry will be front and center of America on Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. (EST). That marks the premiere on HBO of a biopic entitled “Temple Grandin.” The work chronicles the developmental and early professional ...
A New Bright Light Shines In Cowtown
What had become a well-worn little museum mostly documenting the history of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) is now a modern, sleek presentation of an industry ...
Why Would One Support COOL But Not NAIS?
Nothing in my 23 years of writing about the industry has perplexed me more than the implementation of mandatory country of origin labeling (MCOOL) but the ...
Beef, Pork Supplies To Remain Tight
The latest USDA projections for beef and pork output in 2010 indicate supplies next year will be even tighter than predicted. ...
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Tracking failure
"Hard to believe six years have passed since the cow bearing BSE stole Christmas in the U.S. Harder to believe there's still no cattle and beef industry...
The next decade: Part I
I truly believe ranching in the next decade will not be "business as usual." Thus, my next few columns will look to stimulate ranchers'...
No Silver Bullet
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