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Topsy-TurvyMar 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Larry Stalcup When was the last time stocker production was harder than marketing? Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist, asks that question in light of little, if any, wheat pasture available for grazing on the dry High Plains and the disastrous drought in the Southeast... |
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Lessons in consolidation
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Wes Ishmael contributing editor
You likely cringed upon first hearing last month that Brazil-based JBS S.A. (JBS) acquired National Beef and Smithfield Beef Group (SBG) the nation's...
10 Hot Tips
Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor
Creating value in your calves Jim Lerwick with Lerwick Bros., a cattle and grain operation at Pine Bluffs, WY, says there are several areas where producers...
Cow-Calf
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...
2008 grass cattle planning prices
by Harlan Hughes contributing editor
After 30 years of government-supported and stabilized corn markets, the new biofuels era features no government- or farmer-held corn reserves and highly...
Feedlot
Playing The Hand
By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor
As a cattle feeder, observes Alan Janzen, I have to look at what I'm faced with; what is the practical issue here? It's always been thus in a business...
Violative residues
by Clint Peck contributing editor
The elimination of violative residues in beef is one of the most important elements facing ranchers and cattle feeders in producing safe food products....
Processing
More Questions
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor
The plant needs to shoulder the blame, but responsibility also resides with whoever decided to put those cattle on the truck and send them to the plant,...
Getting Better
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Larry Stalcup
Manage. Monitor. Market. That's the best advice Dan Hale gives producers eager to enhance the quality and value of culled cows and bulls they send to...
Retail
The Taste Of Protein
By Diana Barto
Umami. It's pronounced and it's such a mysterious sounding word that you might think it refers to an ethnic trend or a spiritual practice in a faraway...
Video Ads Are Planned For Grocery Carts
Associated Press
Digital advertising is coming to shopping carts. The Associated Press reports Microsoft spent four years working with Plano, TX-based MediaCart Holdings Inc. on a grocery cart-mounted console that helps shoppers find products in the store,...
Seedstock
Continuing Commitment
By Kindra Gordon
The challenge to BIF is to remain dynamic and move into the 21st century with a program attuned to the technology of that era. Embryo transfer, cloning...
Forty Years of Foresight
By Kindra Gordon
January 1967 marked an important beginning for the beef industry. Cattle producers and researchers gathered in Denver for a meeting during the National...
Stocker
Use Target Grazing To Take Aim At Invasive Weeds
Kindra Gordon for the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative
There's a new buzzword out West when it comes to grazing --targeted grazing...
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...


















