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Beef Export News Is Positive
Exports of beef muscle cuts increased 36% to 168.5 million lbs. (76,445 metric tons) the first two months of 2008 when compared to the same two-month period in...
Brazilian Beef Exporters Target Pacific Rim Countries
Despite being locked out of 56% of the world’s beef-importing countries because of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), including the lucrative markets of Korea and Japan, Brazil ...
Some Tips For Adjusting To The New Economic Reality
Rory Lewandowski, Ohio State University Extension educator in Athens County, asks in the latest Ohio Beef Cattle Letter if the high input prices of today ...
Why Should Anyone Care About Record Corn Prices?
Sometimes you have to take a step backwards to a get a clear view. This week, as corn was setting new all-time highs, I found myself mired in the numbers trying to make the decision to ...
Cattle Buyers Summits Set For Three States
A series of special cattle industry events are designed for anyone who trades feeder cattle, fed cattle and non-fed beef animals – as well as ...
Democrats Look To Pull A Fast One On Trade Rules
In early April, President Bush placed the U.S.-Colombia free-trade pact in the hands of Congress, which under “fast-track” rules then had 90 days to provide an up-or-down vote ...
Minnesota Drop In TB Status Is Official
On Wednesday, Minnesota’s bovine tuberculosis (TB) status officially dropped from Modified Accredited Advanced to Modified Accredited. The downgrade is effective immediately ...
Pinkeye Continues To Be A Head-Scratching Affair
We've all seen it. That white spot on a calf's eye that sticks out like a sore thumb in the cowherd. A quick scan of others includes a mental inventory of teary...
WTO Ruling On Hormones Is Bittersweet
This week, I couldn’t help but get excited when I read the headlines regarding the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on the European hormone ban. After all, the headlines asserted in one way or another that the ...
The Cursed Comfort Zone
Here’s one of my favorite jokes: A rancher is walking through his pasture one day and stumbles on a lamp. He picks it up and, just like the other stories, out pops a genie. The ...
Argentine Beef Crisis Is Perhaps At An End
For three weeks, Argentine farmers blocked farm goods and livestock from reaching Argentine cities, stripping supermarket shelves of food and meat, paralyzing beef and grain exports and sparking a political crisis. The blockade – ...
Is Your Dewormer Working?
Anthelmintics (dewormers) are among history’s miracle drugs. Since first introduced in the 1960s, these products have literally helped feed a growing planet by increasing the efficiency and sheer volume of cattle, sheep and goat production. ...
Body condition scoring
The practice of assigning a body condition score (BCS) to a cow is a great management tool for identifying nutritional needs in a beef cowherd. There's...
Ten Years Later
The past decade has brought tremendous change to beef-production systems across the world. Nowhere is this more true than in South America. It's these...
Getting Better
Manage. Monitor. Market. That's the best advice Dan Hale gives producers eager to enhance the quality and value of culled cows and bulls they send to...
Fall Calving Makes Sense In The Tall-Fescue Zone
Spring may not seem the right time to be thinking about the virtues of fall calving, but if you live in the tall-fescue zone of the U.S., you should be thinking about it right now. Spring and early summer is when ...
This Is The Time When Investments Pay Off
If you’ve attended just about any industry meeting the last couple of years, likely someone talked about the value of building relationships and collecting and using information. The trouble is that while we all ...
DHS Publishes No-Match Proposal
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a supplemental proposed rulemaking for its no-match rule that was put on hold by a federal court in California last October. ...
Odds Plummet For Early Corn Planting
Intense rainfall that swept across much of the southern and eastern Corn Belt last week significantly reduces the odds that corn growers will be able to plant early in 2008, says Mike Palecki, regional climatologist at the Midwestern Regional Climate Center. ...
Prevention Is the Best Way To Deal With Grass Tetany
Rye, wheat and triticale are about ready to graze, and such fields can be a great resource. But they can cause health problems in cattle, among them grass tetany, says Bruce Anderson, ...
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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...
