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Market NowOr Later? 

In sizing up calf marketing this fall, Dillon Feuz, Utah State University livestock marketing specialist, says there will be some profit opportunities,...

Tough & On Top 

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....

Target Market 

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 

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...

No smoke just smoke & mirrors 

In response to a March issue guest column likening the use of 2-agonists (i.e., Zilmax) to the end of beef demand (Does anyone smell smoke? page 74),...

Consumer steak preferences 

The ideal steak is locally produced, Choice Angus fed a mixture of grain and grass that is traceable to the farm of origin, Iowa State University researchers...

Spending wisely 

No dartboards. No crystal balls. No coin flips. I've heard lots of theories on how decisions about your checkoff dollars are made. Most are not accurate....

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...

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From Our Columnists

Jim Gerrish

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...

Jim Gerrish Archive

Harlan Hughes

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...

Harlan Hughes Archive

Mark Hilton

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...

Vet's Opinion Archive

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