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Progressive Producers: Cashing in on Individual Cattle Management
You cannot manage what you cannot measure - the simple principle of the Decatur Beef Alliance which aims to get progressive producers out of the commodity business and into the value-added beef business....
Superior Livestock Auction changes ownership | Auction turnover
Superior Livestock Auction, Inc. (SLAI) reports on its website that it's now owned by SLAI, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Farm Credit West, ACA. Jim...
Evaluating Retained Ownership and Stocker Alternatives
At the Range Beef Cow Symposium earlier this December, I was asked to speak on the economics of different production systems. ...
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. ...
From Our Columnists
Tracking failure
"Hard to believe six years have passed since the cow bearing BSE stole Christmas in the U.S. Harder to believe there's still no cattle and beef industry...
The next decade: Part I
I truly believe ranching in the next decade will not be "business as usual." Thus, my next few columns will look to stimulate ranchers'...
No Silver Bullet
I think I can speak for all the “Vet's Opinion” authors in saying that we enjoy feedback on our columns, particularly when a correspondent gives...
