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Combat Lower Calf Prices With More Pounds
With today's high-dollar corn, growth implants may be an efficient and economic strategy for ranchers to add pounds to their calves and...
All Tagged Up
Michigan made history last month when it became the first state requiring electronic ID tags on all cattle moving off the farm in commerce...
Goin' Natural
If you're puzzling over your future role in a changing beef industry, your answer may be a niche market, one that allows you to differentiate your product...
Exploring Natural
South Dakota State University (SDSU) Extension beef feedlot specialist Erik Loe, Marshall county (SD) Extension educator Tyler Melroe, and SDSU Extension veterinarian Russ Daly answer some of the most common questions about natural-beef production...
Competition bill
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Acts to correct deficiencies in USDA's enforcement over agricultural markets...
Real-world realities
While some rejoiced at the news, other folks were disappointed with USDA's announcement last fall that the National Animal Identification System would...
Competition means winners and losers
Remember that bumper sticker from the mid 1970s, when agricultural economics became so disastrous that there were farmers crashing tractors into the local...
Are You Prepared To Document Your Animal Welfare?
This week, Burger King announced its plans to eliminate the use of crates among its pork and poultry suppliers...
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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...

















