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From Steve Kay, editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly. Catch a roundup of each week’s cattle-market activity every Friday afternoon! View the market review now!
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Feed Markets
Sky Bandits
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
Does the ethanol industry rely too heavily on government subsidies? ...
Cows & Distillers
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...
USDA Forecasts 2% Less Alfalfa
Sufficient rainfall in much of the country will result in slightly higher average alfalfa yields than harvested last year, USDA predicts. But the yield gain won’t offset a 4% drop in acreage...
Get A Weekly Cattle Market Summary Every Friday
Catch a roundup of each week’s cattle-market activity each Friday afternoon at beefmagazine.com. Steve Kay, editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly...
Locking In Your CORN
Incredibly high grain prices apparently aren't going away, and plentiful supplies of corn might be harder to find for feedyard managers. But by contracting...
Will the Market Ration Corn Use?
It hasn’t yet, but it’s not out of the question, says Gregg Doud, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association chief economist...
Storing Distillers Grains
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...
From Our Columnists
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...
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...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
