R-CALF Focusing on Marketing Issues

2010 Cattle Market Horizon

Agriculture Futures Trade Lower on the CBOT

Profitability Could Return to Livestock Sector

Cattle Experts Hopeful in 2010, but Economic Rebound Would Help

Heavier is Better

BY LARRY STALCUP

If you have a 600-lb. steer, hold off on selling him. He'll likely pencil out a lot better as an eight-weight. That's the strategy of Eddie Womack and...

Recession & demand

The fourth edition of Power of Meat, a joint study by the American Meat Institute and the Food Marketing Institute, finds the recession is affecting meat-department...

Checkup on the national beef checkoff

By Wes Ishmael, Contributing Editor

Imagine receiving the same price for your calves this fall as in 1985, but purchasing inputs at today's prices. Imagine you had fewer calves to market,...

Why COOL (country of origin labeling but), not NAIS (national animal ID)?

Steve Kay

Nothing in my 23 years of writing about the industry has perplexed me more than the implementation of mandatory country of origin labeling (MCOOL) but...

2009 Yellow Alliance Pages

Sponsored by Elanco Animal Health. 2009 marks BEEF magazine’s 12th annual listing of industry alliances. In this special section, 34 programs are detailed – categorized by consumer-based programs, where the focus is on finding, feeding and marketing cattle according to predefined consumer product specifications...

Adding Value Still Pays

By Wes Ishmael

Cow-calf producers can be more than price takers. That's true even as currently tight cattle numbers lift the price floor, while anemic beef demand squeezes...

Optimism or caution?

Wes Ishmael

Is now the time to sell cows or buy them? That's the basic question often posed at the beginning of each year to Darrell Mark, University of Nebraska...

The Cattle Market Shows Some Pop

By Troy Marshall

Whether it’s simply spring demand kicking in or tighter numbers catching up to the market, the entire cattle complex showed quite a bit of strength this week...

Sky Bandits

By Joe Roybal, Editor

Eating like a bird is a metaphor used to describe someone who eats only small amounts of food or pecks at his vittles. Get enough of these bird-size appetites...

Ethanol-Subsidy Cuts Needed, Says USDA Secretary

Source: Reuters News

Does the ethanol industry rely too heavily on government subsidies? ...