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May 1, 2008

Cover Story

The Taste Of Protein

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Diana Barto

Umami. It's pronounced and it's such a mysterious sounding word that you might think it refers to an ethnic trend or a spiritual practice in a faraway...

Features

Getting The UPPER HAND

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

Despite setbacks in 2007, beef industry leaders believe they're doing a good job of keeping pathogens at bay when it comes to their products. They also...

Whatever Happened To Irradiation?

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Joe Roybal Editor

It was eight years ago on May 16 that irradiated ground beef first became commercially available in the U.S. That was the day that frozen ground beef...

Target Market

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

Beef producers are slowly increasing their marketing efforts to the Hispanic community. Not only has this consumer group demonstrated an affinity for...

Playing The Hand

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

As a cattle feeder, observes Alan Janzen, I have to look at what I'm faced with; what is the practical issue here? It's always been thus in a business...

Ins And Outs Of Byproducts

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Clint Peck Contributing Editor

The search for renewable fuels has spurred revolutionary growth in biodiesel and ethanol production. As a result, the beef industry is scrambling to fill...

Running THE STALL

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Meghan Sapp

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled yet again on the 20-year-old trade spat between the U.S. and the European Union (EU) regarding growth hormones...

Storing Distillers Grains

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

If concern about mold and spoilage of wet distillers grains (WDG) has limited your use of this nutrient-rich byproduct of the ethanol industry, it may...

BEEF Feeder

Losing Immigrant Labor

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

Even before Homeland Security put a ratchet to the threads of American commerce, few were willing to discuss it openly. And now, with the elevated threat...

News Makers

Three keys to growing demand

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

The beef industry has long understood that from a demand standpoint, the mission is quite simple. We need to increase the number of customers, the average...

Brazil targets Pacific Rim

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Muriel Elizabeth Hayes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Despite being locked out of 56% of the world's markets due to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), including Korea and Japan, Brazil still accounts for 32% of...

Editor's Roundup

Memories for November

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

The job of growing markets for U.S. beef just got a bit tougher, thanks to House Democrats. In early April, President Bush placed the U.S.-Colombia free-trade...

BEEF XPress

This month in brief

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Sailing uncharted waters is how ranch-management guru Harlan Hughes characterizes this new biofuels economy. Fueled and protected by ethanol mandates...

Hot Shots

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Fewer corn acres High nitrogen costs and strong soybean prices have forced a shrinking in corn acreage for 2008. According to USDA's March 31 Prospective...

My Perspective

Spending wisely

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Dave Bateman guest contributor

No dartboards. No crystal balls. No coin flips. I've heard lots of theories on how decisions about your checkoff dollars are made. Most are not accurate....

No smoke just smoke & mirrors

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Ty E. Lawrence guest contributor

In response to a March issue guest column likening the use of 2-agonists (i.e., Zilmax) to the end of beef demand (Does anyone smell smoke? page 74),...

Market Advisor

The changing corn environment

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

Part 1: Uncharted waters Managing a beef cowherd in today's corn environment is like sailing uncharted waters. Ranchers' past experiences may not be of...

Vets' Opinion

The shape of things to come

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Dave Sjeklocha contributing editor

I came to a revelation recently that troubles me. Twenty years ago, my wife would have warned anyone to avoid the subject of animal-rights groups unless...

BEEF Tech

Pinkeye treatment

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

Draxxin Injectable Solution, from Pfizer Animal Health, has received Food and Drug Administration approval for the treatment of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis,...

Research Roundup

Consumer steak preferences

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

The ideal steak is locally produced, Choice Angus fed a mixture of grain and grass that is traceable to the farm of origin, Iowa State University researchers...

BEEF Basics

Violative residues

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

The elimination of violative residues in beef is one of the most important elements facing ranchers and cattle feeders in producing safe food products....

Articles

Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business

May 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Sarah Beth Aubrey offers rural entrepreneurs a 176-page blueprint for startup and branding of a small-farm business. The product of a farm upbringing,...