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Cattle Markets
Optimism or caution?
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
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
While the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) never went away, it has simmered ...
Midyear numbers
Total cattle numbers declined slightly from last year, according to USDA's midyear cattle inventory report. The total cattle herd is pegged at 104.3 million...
Marketing 2008 calves
Part V in a series of changing corn environment. The corn market is proving to be as volatile as predicted. With the impact of the Midwest floods less...
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...
More High Times
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...
2007's calf-marketing opportunities
Biofuels are impacting today's marketing decisions. As 2006 corn prices escalated in response to ethanol demand, it became clear that relative prices...
From Our Columnists
Tracking failure
"Hard to believe six years have passed since the cow bearing BSE stole Christmas in the U.S. Harder to believe there's still no cattle and beef industry...
The next decade: Part I
I truly believe ranching in the next decade will not be "business as usual." Thus, my next few columns will look to stimulate ranchers'...
No Silver Bullet
I think I can speak for all the “Vet's Opinion” authors in saying that we enjoy feedback on our columns, particularly when a correspondent gives...
