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Energy - Cap and Trade Agreement Details Released
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced various details of an agreement by committee Democrats on provisions ...
EU-U.S. Reach Beef Deal On Hormone-Treated Beef
The U.S. and the European Union (EU) signed an agreement in Geneva on Wednesday concerning the long-running dispute over hormone-treated beef...
California Sends Slaughter On The Road
he first fully-licensed mobile livestock slaughter unit in California will improve animal welfare by eliminating long journeys to slaughterhouses and improve meat quality, claims its operator Central Coast Agricultural Cooperative (CCAC). ...
CRP Re-enrollment Announced
USDA has announced it will allow producers to re-enroll up to 1.5 million of the 3.9 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) set to exit...
Birding Is The Fare In South Dakota On June 5-6
“Birds. At Home, On the Range” is the theme of a bird watching tour set for June 5-6 at the Rasmussen-Lehman 33 Ranch in Belvidere, SD...
Administration’s Budget Proposes Various Cuts for Ag
The administration released its detailed fiscal year 2010 budget the end of last week and it contains many of the earlier proposals that received strong criticism from the agriculture community...
2009 Range Beef Cow Symposium Is Dec. 1-3
The 2009 XXI Range Beef Cow Symposium (RBCS) is Dec. 1-3 at the Casper Events Center, Casper, WY. Held in alternate years since 1969...
A New D-Day For Social Security And Medicare?
Social Security was scheduled to run in the red by 2017, but that projection was expected to be revised downward this week...
Opinion: Punishing Prudence; Rewarding Foolishness
We’ve all heard farmers remark that they don’t believe in subsidies but are forced to play the game because the...
Is This A Good Or Bad Time To Enter The Beef Business?
A really outstanding group of high school students stopped by the ranch on a nationwide tour last week. I was asked ...
How To Negotiate A Wind Lease On Your Property
In light of the recent economic stimulus plan and the Obama Administration’s push for green jobs and renewable energies...
2009 Across-Breed EPD Table Released
Here’s the latest table of adjustment factors to be used to estimate across-breed (AB) expected progeny differences (AB-EPDs) for ...
Greenhouse Gas Regulation Could Devastate U.S. Ag
The potential impacts of a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding that proposes that greenhouse...
BIF Names Commercial, Seedstock Winners
If the nation’s current economic hiccups are affecting travel and meeting attendance, you couldn’t tell...
Luck Gets The Credit But Persistence Created The Luck
“Buy low and sell high.” There’s likely no sounder economic advice. It especially rings true in the cattle business with its cyclical nature. We’ve all seen the wisdom of that advice played out time and time again. ...
Dairy cull concerns
Nothing riles a beef producer more than the words dairy buyout. Thus, reaction was immediate when rumors circulated in January that the dairy industry...
The Time To Be Bullish Is Now!
Sure, there have been books written on the power of group think. And, with the global economy ...
USDA Releases NAIS Benefit-Cost Analysis
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) released its “Benefit-Cost Analysis ...
Swine Flu: A Virus With An Unfortunate Name
With the latest worldwide health scare – this time not SARS or West Nile virus or avian influenza or BSE, but swine flu (H1N1)...
Do Cattle Harbor Temperament Hints In Their Eyes?
The June edition of Mike Baker’s Beef Cattle Comments from Cornell University carried an item on temperament...
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Advocate or Perish
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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...
