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Alliance Numbers Grow - Consolidate
Consumer-based programs listed in the BEEF Alliance Yellow Pages reflect the overall evolution of industry structure. While the numbers flowing through...
Self Help
Marketing clubs for cattlemen have changed over the years. They've not only taken on a new persona, they've morphed into a new and totally different creature.
Back in the 1970s, such clubs usually were cattle-feeding ventures for investors needing a tax shelter — until tax-code changes eliminated such arrangements. Today's marketing clubs have a different slant — to help producers become better marketers and boost their profit...
Proving It
Better prices are available for calves and yearlings with third-party verification (TPV) of solid preconditioning and age and source verification. But...
Value Of A Brand
Increasing demand has been a major challenge of the U.S. beef industry over the past 25 years. And the proliferation of branded-beef products and program-production...
Proud Promoter
From the time she married South Dakota rancher Bob Adrian in 1957, Pat Adrian who grew up as a town kid has taken her role as a ranch wife and beef promoter...
Ag competition bill introduced
Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Herb Kohl (D-WI), and John Thune (R-SD) introduced legislation on agricultural competition. The measure would coordinate...
Nolan pitches beef
Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan pitched in Japan in July, but it was U.S. beef, not 101.9-mph fastballs. Taking part in a U.S. Meat Export Federation...
The COOL Compromise Is Typical Of The Beltway
After years of delaying the implementation of mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) because of the problems associated with the law, it had come down to crunch time. ...
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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...
