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November 1, 2009

Cover Story

The Naturals | Doc & Connie Hatfield are 2009 BEEF Trailblazers because they listen to the consumer

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Joe Roybal, Editor

Connie Hatfield tells the story of how a fitness trainer turned her and husband Doc's lives around. But it isn't a tale about working toward a beach-worthy...

Business

10 Tips To Become A Better Boss

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor

It's pretty hard, says Bernie Erven, to find someone who says, I've got good employees, but they've got a lousy boss. More often, says the Ohio State...

Taking Profits | Trading Cattle More Often Can Return More Profits

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael

Management isn't just about production; it's about marketing and analyzing the markets, says Dave Delaney, vice president and general manager of ranching...

Government

Antibiotics & Animals Prudent Use of Antibiotics in Livestock is Important

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Clint Peck

Antibiotic use in livestock agriculture is among the hottest topics in U.S. beef production. The conventional wisdom is that the use of antibiotics and...

Canada Requests WTO Panel Review Over U.S. Country of Origin Labeling Law

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Burt Rutherford

The government of Canada on Oct. 7 officially asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to convene a panel to investigate the U.S. mandatory country of...

Sectors

Buying Added Stocker Value Demand for Preconditioned Calves Continues to Grow

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael

Depending on who's running the abacus, purchase price drives profit opportunity in the stocker business. But, the price paid is still relative to the...

Last FEEDYARD Standing | Simplot Land & Livestock responds to changing economic conditions

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor

For cattle feeders, it's not unlike a Chinese auction. Sometimes used as a fundraising tactic, a Chinese auction begins with everyone in the room standing....

EPA Throws A Curve On Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases in Feedlots

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford, Senio Editor

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) heralds it as a major step forward requiring, for the first time, large emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs)...

Range

Grazers Of The Purple Sage Ranchers Teach Cattle to Graze Weeds

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, BY BURT RUTHERFORD, SENIOR EDITOR

The West that Zane Grey portrayed in his novels was a hard-edged place, lonely and rough in a romantic sort of way. Still is. But the New West is a different...

Beef Quality

What Feeders Want When They Go To Buy Feeder Cattle

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor

A long standing joke by cattle feeders when asked what kind of cattle they like to feed is to respond, the kind that can walk up to the feedbunk. In the...

Editor's Roundup

Trailblazer Award duo: Doc & Connie Hatfield

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Joe Roybal

When BEEF editors launched our annual Trailblazer Award back in 1994, we wanted to honor, first and foremost, producers. Our aim was to recognize the...

BEEF XPress

Must Reads

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

My analysis suggests last year wasn't a year to retain ownership but this year just might be. Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009...

U.S Beef Moving on up in Japanese Consumers Estimation

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

U.S. beef exports to Japan added 26% on August 2008 volume to 8,109 tons (58% of the pre-BSE volume in August 2003). In the calendar year to August, U.S....

Aussie McDonald’s Outlets Make Market Progress With Angus

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

In late August, McDonald's added a new range of premium burgers 100% Australian Angus to the menus of its 785 restaurants across Australia. Demand doubled...

Vet Shortage Legislation Introduced in Congress

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and John Thune (R-SD) introduced the Veterinary Services Investment Act (VSIA), which would establish a new grant...

English Beef Industry Fighting Back Against Detractors

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

England's red meat industry has relaunched www.meatandhealth.com, a website designed to remind consumers and health professionals that red meat is a great...

Brazil Beef Industry Looks North to Expand

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Brasil Foods, formed by the merger of Perdigao and Sadia, is exploring expansion in the U.S. following JBS S.A.'s bid to acquire Pilgrim's Pride Corp....

$25,000 Cook-Off Prize Awarded to Arizona Woman

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Mary Hawkes of Prescott, AZ, claimed the checkoff-funded 28th National Beef Cook-Off's $25,000 Best of Beef grand prize. Her Sonoma Steaks with Vegetables...

70% More Food Needed to Feed World in 2050

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

World food production must increase 70% by 2050 to cover a projected human population of 9.1 billion, says the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)....

Amazonian Measure Seeks to Protect Environment From Illegal Ranching

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

JBS-Friboi says it won't buy cattle raised in areas of the Amazon deforested after Sept. 23, nor deal with farms caught raising cattle on indigenous lands...

Get Your Redbooks Herdbooks Available Now

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

The 2010 IRM Redbooks are now available from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. The pocket-sized record books are an effective way of recording...

Online Poll

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Are cattlemen or processors most responsible for controlling E. coli O157:H7 contamination in beef?...

Market Advisor

Don't Market Like 2008 It Might be the Year to Retain Ownership

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Harian Hughes

Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake. For...

Cattle Economics

Advocate or Perish the U.S. Beef Industry is at Risk

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Wes Ishmael

While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...

Vets' Opinion

No silver bullet

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, W. Mark Hilton

I think I can speak for all the Vet's Opinion authors in saying that we enjoy feedback on our columns, particularly when a correspondent gives us more...

Reader's Viewpoint

Overselling PC Preconditioning of Calves

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Richard Roth Big Sandy, MT

I have a few comments in regard to DVM Mark Hilton's August article Fix the problem (page 46). Our ranch annually sells 1,400 steer calves and 900 yearlings....

Meat Matters

Fight Back Now Against Anti-Meat Groups to Protect the Beef Industry’s Future

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Steve Kay

Who could have imagined 20 years ago how the beef industry would be so under attack? The past two decades have seen the industry transform itself into...

My Turn

Lies, Darn Lies & Statistics Regarding Cow Size

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Dan Hanrahan

Reading the September issue article, The Lowdown On Lowlines (page 26), I was reminded of the late, great Fred Johnson, who I met a decade ago as a 20-year-old...

Beef Tech

BEEF Tech

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

New Pfizer vaccine Pfizer Animal Health's Bovi-Shield GOLD HB combines five-way viral protection with the prevention of Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar...