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Markets

Just Politics

Jun 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Joel Roybal, Editor

Last year at this time, skyrocketing commodity prices, driven by surging costs for energy and grains, had much of the world in a lather. Oil had surpassed...

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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...

Marketing

Better Times Ahead

By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor

Cow-calf producers might look at 2009 in the same light as their sophomore year in high school something to be endured while they look forward to the...

Waiting For Traction

By Wes Ishmael

If we shore up the economy, we're helping to shore up demand, says David Anderson, Texas A&M University Extension agricultural economist. That's the primary...

Alliance Yellow Pages

Sponsored by Elanco Animal Health. 2008 marks BEEF magazine’s 11th 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...

Tough & On Top

By Larry Stalcup

After running a South Texas ranch for 40 years, Bill Crain might know a thing or two about producing quality calves and marketing them at the right time....

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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 ...

Feed

Ethanol-Subsidy Cuts Needed, Says USDA Secretary

Source: Reuters News

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

Cows & Distillers

By Joe Roybal Editor

With prices for feed, fuel and pasture driving up cow costs and drought seemingly always just around the corner ranchers are looking for ways to sharpen...