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English Beef Industry Fighting Back Against Detractors

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

England's red meat industry has relaunched www.meatandhealth.com, a website designed to remind consumers and health professionals that red meat is a great...

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Prices

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...

Stocker lending is widely available

Wes Ishmael

Perhaps because the stocker cattle business is so liquid and the value of gain continues to offer profit potential there doesn't seem to be any credit...

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Marketing

Trailblazer Award duo: Doc & Connie Hatfield

Joe Roybal

When BEEF editors launched our annual Trailblazer Award back in 1994, we wanted to honor, first and foremost, producers. Our aim was to recognize the...

English Beef Industry Fighting Back Against Detractors

England's red meat industry has relaunched www.meatandhealth.com, a website designed to remind consumers and health professionals that red meat is a great...

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Alliance Yellow Pages

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...

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Cattle

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...

NAIS Is Back In The Headlines

By Troy Marshall

While the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) never went away, it has simmered ...

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Feed

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? ...

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From Our Columnists

Wes Ishmael

Advocate or Perish

"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...

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Harlan Hughes

Don't Market Like 2008

Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...

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Mark Hilton

No Silver Bullet

I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...

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