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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

DDGs Stocker Supplementation Shows Potential