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Concentration pro & con
Whether market concentration is the chicken or the egg, the tail or the dog, it continues to increase. That's no secret. Benefits from this concentration...
Topsy-Turvy
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...
California Nightmare
The tentacles of the largest beef recall in history – 143,383,823 lbs. – have reached all across the country. If the surreptitious video of exhausted and disabled dairy cattle being tortured...
Reality Check
A survey of consulting nutritionists reveals emerging trends and concerns of feedyard managers...
No Herd Expansion Expected For Several Years
Say all you want about historically high cattle prices, the longest sustained period of cow-calf profitability on record, robust consumer beef demand and the growing seasonal prospects for more grass and forage. ...
R-CALF Is Wrong In Its GIPSA Study Analysis
-CALF USA's recent analysis of a congressionally mandated USDA GIPSA RTI Livestock and Meat Marketing Study (LMMS) is based on an "incorrect economic interpretation."...
A Look At Washington
The late political columnist Molly Ivins once described a Congressional recess as a time when villages across the U.S. recalled their idiots. Of course,...
Anybody's Guess
It's pretty hard to have a conversation nowadays that doesn't turn, sooner or later and usually sooner, toward ethanol. Questions abound. Corn prices?...
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...
