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June 1, 2007

Cover Story

Cattle In The Americas

Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Clint Peck Contributing Editor

With the world's largest commercial cattle herd estimated at 180-190 million head cow numbers in Brazil have grown by 5 million head/year the past decade...

State of the Industry

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Drama-o-rama

Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Alaina Burt Managing Editor

With each headline, cattlemen either applaud or jeer the latest development in trade. The climax is expected to come in May when the World Organization...

Anybody's Guess

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

It's pretty hard to have a conversation nowadays that doesn't turn, sooner or later and usually sooner, toward ethanol. Questions abound. Corn prices?...

Gone Forever?

Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor

Say all you want about historically high cattle prices, the longest sustained period of cow-calf profitability on record, robust consumer beef demand...

A Look At Washington

Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Joe Roybal Editor

The late political columnist Molly Ivins once described a Congressional recess as a time when villages across the U.S. recalled their idiots. Of course,...

Blip Or Bust?

Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor

Two things are certain: Fed cattle are commanding the highest prices in history, and the Beef Demand Index (BDI) calculated to gauge consumer beef demand...

Features

Improving Cull-Cow Value

Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Jeff Carter, PhD

On average, cull cows can produce 10-20% of the total revenue in a beef cow-calf enterprise. Increasing that value by just a third can improve overall...

Measuring Doability

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

Most of the efficiency work underway today is focused on growing cattle. While cow feed costs are of overriding importance in integrated beef-production...

BEEF Feeder Section

Grab The Money & Go

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

Even though feeder cattle supplies may be tight, Jay Gray doesn't worry about where the next yearlings are coming from. They're right outside my window...

Editor's Roundup

Life in an ethanol world

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

Ethanol is changing everything in American agriculture, economist Richard Brock tells BEEF. I've never seen such volatility. It's unbelievable, says the...

Grazier's Page

Manage your pasture's N cycle

Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Jim Gerrish contributing editor

My April issue column discussed how effectively pastures can run on legume nitrogen (N) alone. While legumes can put quite a bit of N into the pasture...