Australia Cattle Herd May Reach 32-Year High in 2010, USDA Says

CME: Beef-cow Slaughter Lower than a Year Ago

Systems to Reduce the Cost of Preconditioning Purchased Calves

Farm Real-Estate Values Post Rare Decline

Large-scale structure has benefits

Grazers Of The Purple Sage Ranchers Teach Cattle to Graze Weeds

BY BURT RUTHERFORD, SENIOR EDITOR

The West that Zane Grey portrayed in his novels was a hard-edged place, lonely and rough in a romantic sort of way. Still is. But the New West is a different...

Taking Profits | Trading Cattle More Often Can Return More Profits

By Wes Ishmael

Management isn't just about production; it's about marketing and analyzing the markets, says Dave Delaney, vice president and general manager of ranching...

What Feeders Want When They Go To Buy Feeder Cattle

By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor

A long standing joke by cattle feeders when asked what kind of cattle they like to feed is to respond, the kind that can walk up to the feedbunk. In the...

Last FEEDYARD Standing | Simplot Land & Livestock responds to changing economic conditions

By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor

For cattle feeders, it's not unlike a Chinese auction. Sometimes used as a fundraising tactic, a Chinese auction begins with everyone in the room standing....

Pilgrim’s Pride Receives Early Antitrust Clearance

Oct 21, 2009 9:09 AM, Source: Pilgrim Pride Press Release

Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. today announced that it has received early antitrust clearance from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice for the company’s previously announced stock purchase agreement with JBS USA Holdings Inc. (JBS U.S.A.), a subsidiary of JBS S.A....

JBS USA delays IPO

Oct 6, 2009 11:10 AM, Source: Northern Colorado Business Report

Brazilian meat processor JBS S.A. will wait until January to make an initial public offering of its U.S. unit -- Greeley-based JBS USA -- to give it time to close its acquisition of Pilgrim's Pride Corp. and complete its merger with Bertin S.A., a former Brazilian competitor....

Decline in Grocery Food Prices Stretches to Farmers' Profits

Source: Des Moines Register

Prices in the grocery store are down by 10 percent from last year, the Iowa Farm Bureau reports. ...

A Look At The Domestic Retail Landscape

Source: My Beef Checkoff News

During the September Operating Committee meeting held in Denver, Colo., 10 Cattlemen’s Beef Board members and 10 State Beef Council members that sit on the committee chose to increase retail marketing program funding by $100,000 in the area of national beef promotions and partnerships. ...

Flying Turnips or Rye Into Corn

Source: UNL Beef Cattle Production Timely Topics; By: Bruce Anderson, Ph.D.

Corn stalks are one of the better and least expensive winter feeds we have. ...

Jerry Wulf focuses on the end-product

By Alaina Burt, Managing Editor

Jerry Wulf from Morris, MN, wears many hats in the cattle business. The Wulf operation encompasses three different entities: Leonard Wulf & Sons, Inc.,...

Seminar to Address Key Issues for Stocker Cattle Producers

Source: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation

The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation's Agricultural Division will host a Stocker Cattle Seminar from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 14, at the Kruse Auditorium on the Noble Foundation's Ardmore campus. ...

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...