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March 1, 2009

Cover Story

7 Common Fencing Mistakes

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Alaina Burt Managing Editor

Whether you're an old specialist with a pair of fencing pliers for a right hand, or just learning the ropes of wood, wire and tape, there's always something...

Features

Maximizing Marginal Pastures

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Larry Stalcup

Close your eyes and envision this lush, green fields heavy with grass and loaded with nutrition. If that's what you see without closing your eyes, count...

Manage Your Minerals

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Larry Stalcup

Greg Moore knows what it's like to manage on the edge. He runs 500 mother cows near Wagon Mound, NM country generously described as Calving is April and...

Bigger Isn't Better; Traits for grass finished cattle

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor

For cattlemen looking at the niche market of grass-fed beef, bigger may not be better, at least as far as mature size of the cattle are concerned. That's...

Synchronization Syncopated

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor

It has long been known that getting your heifers bred early in the breeding season sets them up for a lifetime of productivity. And aficionados of artificial...

2009 Feed Composition Tables

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Compiled by R.L. Preston, Ph.D.

Nutrition research spanning more than 100 years has defined the nutrients required by animals. With this information, diets can be formulated from feeds...

Neighbor Relations

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor

Neighboring is a ranching tradition likely as old as the industry itself. Born of necessity, it is still one of the most enduring and endearing parts...

Keeping It Legal

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Phillip Perry

Federal agents recently conducted the largest raid on illegal workers in national history, arresting 600 undocumented immigrants at a Laurel, MS, business....

2009 NCBA Convention Coverage

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

NCBA officers Gary Voogt, a Marne, MI seedstock producer, is the new president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA). Read more about him...

Spoiled Potential

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael, Contributing Editor

Those cattle pharmaceuticals you stick in the ice box, just like the label says, may still be compromised or rendered useless if you're not monitoring...

Too Early To Tell

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Joe Roybal, Editor

It's still too early to tell how a Barack Obama USDA will stack up for U.S. cattlemen, but the first reports offer some positive and some concerning inklings,...

Editor's Roundup

Letter from Errol

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Joe Roybal

Reader Errol Wells of Elba, NE made my and DVM Mike Apley's day last month. Wells e-mailed me to say he'd recently responded to an article in his local...

BEEF XPress

Must Reads

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Whether you're an old specialist with a pair of fencing pliers, or just learning the ropes, there's always something to learn when it comes to livestock...

Ag Census

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

The 2007 Census for Agriculture found the number of U.S. farms is growing, but small and large farms are squeezing out midsized operations....

Gary Vermeer Passes Away At 90

Feb 17, 2009 10:52 AM, -- Teri Vos, Vermeer Corporation

Gary Vermeer, founder and chairman emeritus of Vermeer Corporation, Pella, IA, died Feb. 2, at 90 years of age. ...

National Stocker Award

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Nominations for BEEF magazine's 2009 National Stocker Award, sponsored by Elanco Animal Health, are now open. The four-year-old competition highlights...

Clarification

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

In February issue coverage of the 2008 BEEF Quality Summit, Mating & Managing, (page 34), speaker Alan Sears failed to credit Bob Weaber, University of...

Petrol relief

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Regular-grade gasoline prices will average $1.95/gal. in 2009 and $2.19 in 2010, says the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The early February forecast...

HSUS wish list

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) issued its wish list for USDA: A comprehensive ban on slaughter of downer cattle and increased oversight of the...

BIF Registration Opens; Student Scholarships Available

Feb 6, 2009 4:28 PM

Registration for the Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) Annual Research Symposium and Annual Meeting 2009 is now open... ...

Bob Fudge, Texas Trail Driver

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Originally published in the 1930s, Bob Fudge: Texas Trail Driver, Montana-Wyoming Cowboy chronicles the heritage of cattle drives and the long and colorful...

Online Poll

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

The cost of fertilizer reached record-high levels in 2008. For many, the cost of fertilizing pastures and cropland did not pencil out. Will the current...

Cattle Economics

Exploit stocker advantages

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Wes Ishmael

If you apply lessons from the Good Book to current stocker opportunities, declining value of gain and increasing costs mean that now is a time to sow...

Market Advisor

Costs & returns: Part III

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Harlan Hughes

This series of articles is designed to help ranchers manage through today's tough economic times as economic pressures build on the beef-cow sector. Part...

Vets' Opinion

The Madness Over Methane

Feb 27, 2009 12:43 PM

BEEF readers know food-animal agriculture is under attack. Animal rights and environmental groups...

Research Roundup

Fescue vs. annuals

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Profitability of novel endophyte (non-toxic) tall fescue wasn't much different than cool-season annuals, Arkansas researchers say. The increased costs...

BEEF Basics

Crossbreeding

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Clint Peck

Crossbreeding remains one of the most effective low-input, high-return management practices a beef-cattle producer can adopt. Effective crossbreeding...

My Turn

Lest we forget

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Troy Marshall

Last month, the Quiznos subway sandwich chain announced its new animal-welfare policy created in conjunction with People for the Ethical Treatment of...

BEEF Tech

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Fence controllers Four low-impedence electric fence controllers are available from Zareba, each featuring Lightning Guard built-in lightning protection....

Meat Matters

The shrinking herd

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Steve Kay

Visualize the throughput of the largest beef-packing plant in the country or the annual marketings of the 10 largest feedlots. That's how many cattle...

Articles

Fencing Products

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Hydraulic post driver Worksaver's HPD-20 Hydraulic Post Driver offers an immediate airtight set for wood and steel posts up to 8-in. in diameter and 10-ft....

Five steps to consistency

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Bill Mies, Ph.D.

Remove your very largest-framed cows and your smallest-framed cows to even up your herd with females that are more uniform. By doing this, you simply...