In previous columns, we've discussed producers' preparation of cost-and-return projections for 2009 calves. This month, we'll develop a set of planning...More
Perhaps because the stocker cattle business is so liquid and the value of gain continues to offer profit potential there doesn't seem to be any credit...More
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) decision to block JBS SA's acquisition of National Beef Packing (NBP) delighted opponents of further consolidation in...More
Sailing uncharted waters is how ranch-management guru Harlan Hughes characterizes this new biofuels economy. Fueled and protected by ethanol mandates...More
I've got records, now what? cattle producers in South Dakota kept asking. They got their answers in 2002 by joining a Standardized Performance Analysis (SPA) Integrated Resource Management (IRM) group...More
Expect the formation of inter-sector alliances to get a boost over the next few years, says Kansas City economist Bill Helming. Like kids scrambling when...More
Hughes Cattle Co. of Bartlesville, OK, owned and operated by John and Robert Hughes is BEEF magazine's National Stocker Award (NSA) winner for 2006. When...More
Readers should now understand the 10- to 12-year cattle cycle, according to Market Advisor columnist Harlan Hughes. In the conclusion column to his eight-part...More
They don't talk much about being the biggest Angus outfit in the country. Rather, the talk around central Montana's Stevenson Basin Angus ranch is about...More
Market Advisor columnist Harlan Hughes explains how a heifer-replacement program can be designed for use as a counter-cyclical management strategy to...More