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Drama-o-rama
With each headline, cattlemen either applaud or jeer the latest development in trade. The climax is expected to come in May when the World Organization...
Ethanol's Effects On Cattlemen Offers Many Unknowns
What effect will the rush to ethanol have on cattlemen? There are a lot more questions than answers. ...
What Does Friboi/Swift Merger Mean For Global Beef?
The largest South American meat packer just gobbled up another struggling competitor. J&F Participações S.A. of Sao Paulo, Brazil, parent company of JBS-Friboi, announced Tuesday the purchase of ...
Eli Lilly Acquires Data Powerhouse Ivy Animal Health
Ivy Animal Health, Inc., will become an operating unit of Eli Lilly and Company's Elanco Animal Health division under an acquisition agreement announced today by Lilly. The transaction is expected to close near the end of the second quarter of 2007, contingent upon regulatory approval. ...
Land Values Continue On The Upswing
Farmland values, driven by high crop prices, are surging at a pace not seen since the 1980s in some states, according to the Federal Land Bank of Kansas City's Quarterly Ag Credit Survey...
Rising Feed Costs Force Change
Cow-calf producers face the continued challenge of rising feed costs. In an ethanol-dominated world, it isn't going to get any better...
Weather, Acreage Are Ethanol Wildcards For 2007
Ethanol is changing everything in American agriculture, economist Richard Brock says. "I've never seen such volatility. It's unbelievable" ...
Welfare standards
Burger King and Wolfgang Puck made major announcements in their animal welfare standards last month. The Associated Press reports Burger King told People...
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...
