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January 1, 2008

Cover Stories

Top Stewards

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Environmental stewardship is taking personal responsibility to care for natural resources and ensuring sustainability for future generations. For cattlemen,...

Environmental Maneuvers

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Walt Barnhart

It isn't just developers and livestock operators who have issues with the government's Endangered Species Act (ESA). When endangered species are found...

Beef & Birds

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Kindra Gordon

If someone asked how many cattle you ran on your ranch, surely you'd know a number. But if you were asked how many species of birds and wildlife could...

Features

Ethanol Changes EVERYTHING

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor

As recently as six months ago, or this morning, the immediate and visible changes wrought by subsidized ethanol production seemed much like those that...

8 in '08

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford / Joe Roybal

Food Safety: For much of 2007, consumer and political concerns over beef safety, particularly E. coli O157:H7, had nearly been crossed off the list of industry issues. Then came the Topps recall...

More High Times

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Larry Stalcup

If you measure success by the kind of song you whistle when it comes time to market your calves, 2007 was most likely a happy tune. Success in '08 may...

Local Politics

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Phillip M. Perry

With the presidential campaign in full swing, you're probably assessing each candidate's support for business-friendly legislation. The priorities of...

Market First

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor

Our Dad and Grandpa always bought cattle cheap, and then upgraded them. This industry has always been about one segment trying to beat up on another one....

Resurrection Of The Bar O The Tom and Jemima Davis Story

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Forsaking an opulent city life for grassy pastures in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon, the Davis family embarked on the demanding life of 20th-century...

Timing is everything

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Clint Peck contributing editor

Most U.S. beef producers manage their livestock around forage-driven production systems. And because beef producers mostly calve in the spring, they wean...

Editor's Roundup

Vets weigh in on calf health

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Joe Roybal editor

Anecdotally, it seems you hear talk here and there about the increased morbidity and mortality in today's calves. But a survey of 500 veterinarians who...

BEEF XPress

This month in brief

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM

There are six products in the UK labeled for pain in food animals, and none in the U.S., writes Vet's Opinion columnist, Mike Apley. In The future of...

Raising meat goats

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM

A new budget spreadsheet from South Dakota State University (SDSU) can help producers calculate the costs of producing goats for the meat-goat market....

Another record CAB year

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Certified Angus Beef (CAB) recorded sales of more than 584 million lbs., the highest mark in its 29-year history, and annual brand sales topped $2.5 billion,...

Philippines open to U.S. Beef

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM

The Philippines has fully opened its market to U.S. beef and beef products of all ages. Imports of U.S. beef and beef products had been restricted to...

Naturally raised claim

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM

USDA wants comments on its proposed voluntary standard for a naturally raised marketing claim for livestock and meat. Published in the Nov. 28 Federal...

New NAIS partner

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM

The National Cattlemen's Foundation (NCF) is partnering with USDA to promote premises registration. Consisting of a record of basic information such as...

Reader's Viewpoint

Accept change and get on with it

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Tom Peters, Ph.D. Consulting Nutritionist Oregon, IL

I'm disturbed by all the complaining today particularly by cattlemen regarding grain-based ethanol. As a consulting nutritionist with 400,000 cattle under...

Market Advisor

Price forecasting part 1

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Harlan Hughes contributing editor

Producers often tell me that one bottleneck to strategic planning of marketing is not knowing which planning prices to use. Thus, I am sharing with ranchers...

Cattle Economics

What is an ethanol cowherd?

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Wes Ishmael contributing editor

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...

My Perspective

A sunrise or a sunset?

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Barry Dunn contributing editor

In comparison to the recent 40-year period of relative stability in the price of the major agriculture commodities, 2007 has seemed like a ride on a giant...

I don't get it, but I understand it

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Troy Marshall contributing editor

I don't get it, but I understand it, is a phrase worthy of legendary baseball sage and manager Yogi Berra. But that brilliant piece of wisdom was actually...

Vets' Opinion

The future of pain

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Mike Apley contributing editor

I can guarantee you that many in the 98% of society with no direct ties to agriculture see prevention or treatment of pain in farm animals as a moral...

Research Roundup

Productivity of twins and triplets

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, compiled by Alaina Burt managing editor

Cows have the capacity to gestate twin calves, but not without decreased survival and body weight due to uterine crowding, researchers at USDA's Meat...

BEEF Tech

Drench gun

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, compiled by Alaina Burt managing editor

Intervet's new automatic air-powered drench gun is exclusive to Safe-Guard and Panacur deworming applications for beef and dairy cattle. Air-compression...