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November 1, 2008

Cover Story

Proactive Passion

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Joe Roybal Editor

With approximately 23% of the Lykes Bros. Ranch considered a wetland, one can imagine just how pivotal a role water management plays in the land-use decisions...

Features

Injection Question

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Clint Peck

Anyone in the cattle business who hasn't gotten word of the recommended site to give a cow a shot must have been asleep for the past 20 years. So, once...

Extreme Water

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Alaina Burt Managing Editor

The sweet, cool taste of water is refreshing on a hot, dusty day. You won't go without when you visit Jake Longbrake's place, located just north of Thunder...

Speaking Up For Ag

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Kindra Gordon

From the nightly television news to video streams via the Internet, one needn't look far to find agriculture in the headlines. Unfortunately, the stories...

Parley With The Enemy

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

Ben Franklin, in one of his more famous quotes, told his fellow patriots at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, We must all hang together,...

Squeeze Play

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor

It's not like beef is a non-renewable natural resource, but global demand running ahead of stable to declining supply promises to drive prices higher....

Playing Genetic Hopscotch

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

Open the catalog from your favorite genetics supplier and what do you see? Outside of the pretty pictures, you see numbers. Lots and lots of numbers....

Feeder Features

Don't Fire The Vet

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

Feedyard managers and stocker guys might call it a bad luck/good luck story. Dan Thomson calls it riding the epidemiological curve to glory. It happens...

Editor's Roundup

Back to Brazil

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Joe Roybal editor

The largest country in South America, Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse. The country ranks as the world's top exporter of beef, broilers, soybeans,...

Correction

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM

A short item in the October issue's BEEF Xpress column (page 6) introducing Steve Kay's page 36 interview with JBS SA's Wesley Batista implied the Brazilian...

Meat Matters

Think twice before building

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Steve Kay contributing editor

I got a call the other day from a university researcher looking for information about the beef-packing industry. She said she was helping to put together...

Market Advisor

Lowering your breakeven - part II

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Harlan Hughes contributing editor

This month, I'll share a primary database I use in benchmarking a ranch. The data is taken from the 2007 annual North Dakota Farm Business Management...

Cattle Economics

Mining the financial chaos

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Wes Ishmael contributing editor

Even the dullest sluggard can increase revenues when inflation rates drive up the price of the product they're selling or owning, and the number of buyers...

My Perspective

Nothing to fear but fear itself

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Troy Marshall contributing editor

If you aren't at least a little afraid about the general state of our economy, and the global economy for that matter, you haven't been listening to the...

Vets' Opinion

Timing is everything

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Dave Sjeklocha contributing editor

Why do we vaccinate cattle? Of course, the reason is to attempt to prevent disease. However, if our timing is wrong, we can actually make the conditions...

Research Roundup

Yield grade requires modification

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, compiled by Alaina Burt managing editor

The USDA Yield Grade equation is skewed, West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) researchers conclude. With the adoption of visual instrument grading, calculated...

BEEF Tech

Single-dose BRSV vaccine

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, compiled by Alaina Burt managing editor

Bovi-Shield Gold from Pfizer Animal Health has received USDA approval for single-dose prevention of bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV). The vaccine...

BEEF Basics

The verification process

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Clint Peck contributing editor

With all that's been written and said about the age- and source-verification process, there's still a lot of confusion. The most common comment is that...