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$25,000 Cook-Off Prize Awarded to Arizona Woman
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...
America’s top cattle feeders | Feted Feeders
Grid-based marketing didn't just appear out of the blue. Paul Engler, founding chairman of Texas-based Cactus Feeders one of the largest cattle-feeding...
Gary Vermeer Passes Away At 90
Gary Vermeer, founder and chairman emeritus of Vermeer Corporation, Pella, IA, died Feb. 2, at 90 years of age. ...
2009 BQA Award Winners Announced
Anne Burkholder of Will Feed Inc. in Cozad, NE, and Longmont, CO dairyman Jim Docheff are recipients of the 2009 Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Award. ...
A legend passes
Visionary cattle-genetics leader Roy Wallace passed away Jan. 20 while in Denver attending the National Western Stock Show. He was 63...
Livestock Diplomacy
In a mountainous region in Afghanistan, along the Pakistan border, fighting and drought had decimated the animal population. What was once a thriving...
Q&A with Lt. Col. Sam Barringer, DVM
Q How did this program come about? A The program is still ongoing, and we must recognize that there are 100+ people involved in this and I was just the...
The Man Who Would Be President
Paul Hitch had set his mind to become the next president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA). It was his dream, his goal, the culmination...
From Our Columnists
Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
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...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
