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FDA Says Cloned Animals Are Safe; EU Moves Closer
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine, and goats, and the offspring of clones from any species traditionally ...
What is an ethanol cowherd?
Why would success strategies in a business predicated upon cheap feed and cheap energy work when the opposite is true? That's a query John Lawrence, livestock...
Heterosis boosts bottom line
Crossbreeding has the potential to significantly boost return in a vertically coordinated marketing system, California State University-Chico researchers...
Redefining Carcass EPDs
Back in the day, when the cash market dominated the packer-feeder buying relationship, a packer buyer never perched a boot on a feedbunk, cast a critical...
LESSONS Hard Learned
Used to be, if you wanted to make significant genetic improvement in your herd, you needed to focus on identifying and culling the bottom 20% of your...
PINGING For Premiums
Remember those old WW II movies? The ones where U.S. Navy ships are trolling for enemy submarines and the only sound that cuts the tension-thick air is...
Producers Say Ultrasounding Commercial Heifers Pays
Remember those old World War II movies? The ones where the Navy ships are trolling for enemy submarines and the only sound that cuts the tension-thick air is the "ping" of the sonar? ...
Bovigen Announces DNA Test For Feed Efficiency
Bovigen announces the cattle industry's first and only DNA test that can identify an animal's genetic ability to efficiently convert feed. The GeneSTAR(R) Feed Efficiency test can ...
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...
