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More Rough Times Ahead For Beef Industry
There are more tough times ahead for the beef industry but – thanks to tightening supplies – the beginnings of a recovery are possible late next ...
Is It Too Much To Expect Due Diligence From Congress?
My uncle once quipped to me that a see-through blouse was a lot like a solar eclipse. You know what's there and you know it's interesting...
Bull Has Big Impact On Beef Cattle Bottom Line
Producers can avoid costly decisions if they go through the proper steps to purchase a bull that fits both their budget and their management and production needs,...
TIME Magazine’s Yellow Journalism
The Beef Board and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) did everything possible to head off the Aug. 31 TIME magazine cover story, “The Real Cost of Cheap Food” by Bryan Walsh. The story is literally ...
AVMA Says Pew Report Flawed, Unscientific
An American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) report says recommendations by a prominent critic of industrial animal ...
Corn Silage, Barley Are Excellent Feeds for Growing Calves
With many North Dakota cornfields unlikely to mature this year, there’s an opportunity to harvest significant amounts of silage ...
Cultural Wars Could Threaten Ag Alliances
A cultural war inside farm country may be emerging between conventional agriculture and organic production and the issue is ...
Industry Is Doing Much Right, But Work Remains
Kansas State University DVM Dan Thomson believes the U.S. beef industry is doing a lot of things right when it comes to animal welfare ...
Magazine Cover Story Pounds On Beef
Industry organizations rallied in defense of the industry following publication of a TIME magazine cover story extolling ...
Private Property And Free Markets Are Under Attack
The attacks on our industry are largely transparent - The environment, animal welfare, food safety, trade, etc. – and are easy enough to ascertain. We know of these and we know where our opponents ...
If We Could Just Manage Like The Politicians Do
Across the board, government revenues are down dramatically. The federal government is in a very similar situation to the dairy ...
2009 Cow Herd Production Benchmarks Are In
The new scores are the annual North Dakota Beef Cattle Improvement Association (NDBCIA) benchmark values gathered from ...
Cap And Trade Answers Prove To Be Elusive
During July Senate Agriculture Committee hearings on cap and trade legislation it became quickly apparent that major ...
Cap And Trade, COOL And The Tooth Fairy
In a wide-ranging debate, two of agriculture’s elder statesmen addressed a number of current ag issues during the annual Agricultural ...
It’s Time To Put Up Or Shut Up On National ID
The U.S. beef cattle and livestock industries need standardized national animal identification....
The Livestock Production Battlefield Is Changing
A Missouri couple this week was awarded $1.1 million in a lawsuit settlement that was based on problems caused by ...
The County Fair Argument
I received an email last week from a reader who was deeply distraught about my musings over the county fair that seemingly pop up ...
Beef Trade News Continues In Doldrums
CME live-cattle futures were on the defensive on Wednesday with the nearby August contract down 98 points and all other contracts posting ...
Is The Climate Change Bill Dividing Farm Groups?
Climate change legislation now before the Senate has succeeded in doing something neither the nation’s environmental ...
Farm Lending Trends And Projections Are Troubling
That’s the consensus of the Congressional Oversight Panel, which released its “Special Report on Farm Loan Restructuring.” The report fulfills a mandate under the Helping ...
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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...
