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Feed Scramble
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...
Best Guesses In The New Age
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...
Topsy-Turvy
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...
Bison charge ahead
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...
Grass-fed label finalized
USDA's Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) finalized a voluntary standard for a grass-fed livestock marketing claim. The grass-fed standard will be for...
Basis for Risk
When we learn about hedging in school, we learn that as the futures market moves, the cash market should move with it, and ideally in a 1:1 relationship,...
PSA enforcement
Twelve senators have written the Senate Agriculture Committee urging provisions in the farm bill that improve enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards...
Big Mac is 40
McDonald's signature Big Mac sandwich turned 40 years old on Aug. 22, debuting in 1967 for just 45 at a single restaurant in Uniontown, PA. The burger,...
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...
