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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...
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...
A Glimmer Of Hope
Like wolf tracks in the snow, the warning signs have been unmistakable. There's risk out there in the market big risk. Price volatility in the cattle...
The golden age of agriculture?
Economist Bill Helming says he's generally bearish on the overall U.S. economy and expects it to suffer a serious and painful recession within the 2008-2009...
Price forecasting part II
Ranching's economics are changing. Preliminary data suggest the cost of running a beef cowherd has increased 15-20% in the last two years. Altered production...
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...
Big Mac is 40
McDonald's signature Big Mac sandwich turned 40 years old on Aug. 22, debuting in 1967 for just 45 at a single restaurant in Uniontown, PA. The burger,...
Blip Or Bust?
Two things are certain: Fed cattle are commanding the highest prices in history, and the Beef Demand Index (BDI) calculated to gauge consumer beef demand...
Gone Forever?
Say all you want about historically high cattle prices, the longest sustained period of cow-calf profitability on record, robust consumer beef demand...
Grab The Money & Go
Even though feeder cattle supplies may be tight, Jay Gray doesn't worry about where the next yearlings are coming from. They're right outside my window...
Rising Feed Costs Force Change
Cow-calf producers face the continued challenge of rising feed costs. In an ethanol-dominated world, it isn't going to get any better...
Consider Price Protection On Your Fall Calves
With the unheard-of volatility in corn prices and a virtual guarantee that high-cost feed won't go away, cow-calf producers might be wise to consider some sort of price protection to ensure against a wreck waiting to happen. ...
Meat Industry Competition Legislation Debuts
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the "Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Acts to "correct deficiencies in USDA's enforcement over agricultural markets and provided needed protections ...
Crush Em
It's a marketing tool that can help protect cattle feeders from $1 higher corn prices in what's become one of the most volatile periods ever for cattle and corn markets...
Weekly Average Diesel Price Drops 7.4¢/Gal
Change In Livestock Contracts Arbitration Eyed
2006 State Of Industry Report
BEEF magazine's 2006 State Of The Industry Report is available at: http://beef-mag.com/advertisers/research/. Compiled for BEEF magazine by Iowa State...
Missouri South Farm Field Day Is Oct. 7
Laptop Marketing
Bill O'Brien has a permit to open an e-futures market, and he probably would have if the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (CME) electronic cattle futures...
Lower Placements -- Higher Prices
Yearlings Boost Market Floor
2005 cow costs rose $36/head
The Cattle-Fax 2005 cow-calf survey says U.S. cow costs increased $36/head in 2005. Cash costs/cow averaged $351 in 2005 $36/head more than the 2004 average...
Has transparency increased?
It's as tough to miss something you've never had as it is to miss something you've still got. At least that seems to be the case with mandatory livestock...
Friendly ICBMs
While the initials typically are associated with intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Intervet version to debut March 1 is a lot less ominous. In...
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...
