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Some Rain -- Finally!
USDA Announces Drought Aid; Some Decry It
Insurance tools for pasture, rangeland and forage
USDA announces two new risk-management tools for pasture, rangeland and forage, beginning with the 2007 crop year. The two programs, which allow livestock...
Making Hay Without It
The drought in 1998 was the first time in recent years we faced a crisis like this year, where you have very limited forage standing forage or hay and...
Drought halts expansion
One significant sign of the 2006 drought's impact is cow-harvest rates have picked-up dramatically, essentially halting nationwide cow herd expansion....
Drought Strategies
After conducting considerable simulation work on the economic impact of alternative drought-management strategies for the 2006 drought, coupled with the...
Drought Taking Billion-Dollar Toll
Drought Stalls Herd Expansion
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...
