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May 1, 2007

Cover Story

And They're Off

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Diana Barto

It sounds like a sure winner. Combine consumers' demand for precooked, convenience products along with their insatiable craving for hamburgers, and you get the precooked hamburger ...

Features

Diet Policy Deja vu

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Walt Barnhart

Thirty years ago, a U.S. Senate nutrition report started an avalanche that threatened to bury the meat industry. Be prepared, experts say, because we...

Keeping Em HOME

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Larry Stalcup

Feeder cattle prices rebounded earlier this year, thanks to one of the oldest theories of economics supply vs. demand. Feeder supplies can't keep up with...

Predicting Doability

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Bill Zimmerman

There's something almost mystical about in cattle. We all think we know what it is when we see it steers that keep gaining during a Panhandle snowstorm...

Pounds Combat Lower Prices

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Kindra Gordon

The repercussions of high-priced corn are on everyone's mind these days. Not only are many wondering about the supply of corn, but also how the price...

Fire & Ice

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

Jeff Haley looks at the tiny sprigs of green poking up through the sandy earth and smiles. Big. He has good reason to. A year ago, he stood near this spot while despair gripped his guts and tore at his heart...

Editor's Roundup

FTA deal leaves U.S. beef behind

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Joe Roybal editor

Insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. U.S. trade negotiators are apparently willing to put that old...

BEEF XPress

This month in brief

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

With the current beef-price cycle expected to trend lower as the cycle plays out, controlling heifer-replacement costs over the next 3-4 years is a critical...

Summer fuel prices

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Fuel users can expect a reprieve from last summer's pump prices. The Energy Information Administration projects the average monthly gasoline pump price...

Implants' effects

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

A report appearing in the British journal Human Reproduction in March speculates a link between infertility in adult males with the amount of beef consumed...

Welfare standards

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Burger King and Wolfgang Puck made major announcements in their animal welfare standards last month. The Associated Press reports Burger King told People...

World War II-style corn

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

U.S. corn producers are expected to plant 90.5 million acres of corn this spring, the most in 63 years. According to USDA's March 30 Prospective Plantings...

Reader's Viewpoint

Estate-tax feedback

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

The subject of the spring 2007 issue estate planning was most appropriate and timely. Regarding the article, Estate Tax Repeal, many writers and congressmen...

Market Advisor

Heifer economics: part 1

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Harlan Hughes contributing editor

Fall calf prices peaked in 2005, and the current beef-price cycle is expected to trend lower as the cycle plays out. Thus, measuring and controlling heifer-replacement...

Cattle Economics

And Fluffy shall lead them

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Wes Ishmael contributing editor

BSE? Nope. Worries about a virulent foreign animal disease like foot-and-mouth disease introduced by accident or intention? Nahh. Increased price volatility...

From My Perspective: Troy Marshall

Story of a cowboy hero

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Troy Marshall contributing editor

Public interest in the 6-ft. snowstorm that hit Southeast Colorado this winter has melted away with the coming of warmer temps, but the difficulties for...

Vets' Opinion

Take off the blinders

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Dave Sjeklocha contributing editor

More profitability is a constant quest for beef-cattle producers. There are two basic ways to increase profit get paid more for the product you're marketing,...

Research Roundup

Nutrition labeling spurs beef sales

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, compiled by Alaina Burt managing editor

Midwest retailer finds nutrition labeling boosts sales and consumer attitudes about beef. Indiana's Marsh Supermarkets Inc. held a 16-week project...

BEEF Tech

Oral solution approved

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, compiled by Alaina Burt managing editor

IVX Animal Health has received FDA approval of its generic Amprolium 9.6% Oral Solution for use as a treatment or prevention of coccidiosis in calves...

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