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Matching Consumer To Rancher 

It's not as easy as finding a niche market and sticking with it, explains Mary Forman, who co-founded Country Natural Beef (CNB) with her husband, Lowell....

Tough & On Top 

After running a South Texas ranch for 40 years, Bill Crain might know a thing or two about producing quality calves and marketing them at the right time....

2001 NCBA President Lynn Cornwell Passes 

Glasgow, MT rancher and 2001 National Cattlemen’s Beef Association president Lynn Cornwell died June 5 of an aortic aneurysm. He was 56. He is survived by his wife Debby, and their four children...

Quest For Quality 

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 

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...

Desert Doer 

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...

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...

Top Stewards 

Environmental stewardship is taking personal responsibility to care for natural resources and ensuring sustainability for future generations. For cattlemen,...

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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...

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