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A legend passes

Mar 1, 2008 10:12 AM

Visionary cattle-genetics leader Roy Wallace passed away Jan. 20 while in Denver attending the National Western Stock Show. He was 63...

Quest For Quality

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

When you come to a fork in the road, observed the legendary Yogi Berra, take it. Reeves and Betsy Brown can appreciate that advice, because that's exactly...

Desert Doer

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

It was Thursday, Dec. 6, and Andy Groseta was bouncing between phone calls in his office after returning from Tucson, AZ, where he'd addressed an international...

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Award Winners

Beef Quality Advocate

By Clint Peck Contributing Editor

The beef industry must work day to day to keep its eye on the target. That's the motivation for Carl Crabtree, a Grangeville, ID rancher, in his efforts to make sure Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) programming remains “job one” throughout the U.S. beef industry.

For nearly 20 years, BQA educational programming has reached thousands of beef and dairy producers in nearly every state. BQA concepts have been instrumental in...

Who are the new giants?

by Terry Stokes

The cattle industry said goodbye to two of its greatest pioneers and champions recently. W.D. Farr, 97, of Greeley, CO, and Fred Johnson, 91, of Summitville,...

National Stocker Award Winners

2007 Award Winners, Sponsored by Elanco and Beef Magazine...

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Ranch Profiles

Quest For Quality

By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

When you come to a fork in the road, observed the legendary Yogi Berra, take it. Reeves and Betsy Brown can appreciate that advice, because that's exactly...

A Change In The Lineup

By Alaina Burt Managing Editor

If you head south from Ellendale, ND, past the community baseball field and a mile into South Dakota, you'll find the ranch headquarters of Bruce and...

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From Our Columnists

Jim Gerrish

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...

Jim Gerrish Archive

Harlan Hughes

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...

Harlan Hughes Archive

Mark Hilton

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...

Vet's Opinion Archive

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