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Markets
Bison charge aheadFeb 1, 2008 12:00 PM After three straight years of double-digit increases in bison meat sales, the National Bison Association (NBA) says it's poised to continue the run in... |
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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...
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...
Prices
Best Guesses In The New Age
By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor
Ask a dozen folks how to plan for the next 12 months and you'll get plenty of discussion based on myriad qualifications and assumptions, but few confident...
The golden age of agriculture?
by Joe Roybal editor
Economist Bill Helming says he's generally bearish on the overall U.S. economy and expects it to suffer a serious and painful recession within the 2008-2009...
Marketing
Target Market
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...
The Taste Of Protein
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...
Alliance Yellow Pages
2007 alliance yellow pages
2007 marks BEEF magazine's 10th annual listing of industry alliances. Categorized by consumer-based programs, where the focus is on finding, feeding and marketing cattle according to predefined consumer product specifications...
Alliance Numbers Grow - Consolidate
By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor
Consumer-based programs listed in the BEEF Alliance Yellow Pages reflect the overall evolution of industry structure. While the numbers flowing through...
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Cattle
Topsy-Turvy
By Larry Stalcup
When was the last time stocker production was harder than marketing? Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist, asks that question in light of little, if any, wheat pasture available for grazing on the dry High Plains and the disastrous drought in the Southeast...
More High Times
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...
Feed
Storing Distillers Grains
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...
Feed Scramble
By Meghan Sapp
European consumers have long had an aversion to genetically modified organisms (GMO), be it in their food or in the feed used to rear their meat...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...


















