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Purdue Experts Help Ranchers Figure Cash Rents
With prices and input costs fluctuating, people need to review their lease arrangements and adjust for the year ahead, says Craig Dobbins, a Purdue University Extension agricultural economist. ...
Looking at the Economics of Livestock Production
Livestock Marketing Information Center data shows that average cow-calf producers are operating with negative returns; however, there are still opportunities ...
Stretch Your Hay Supply
There are several strategies for cattlemen to consider in order to decrease their input costs in these challenging times in the beef industry. ...
What Happens to Family Farms?
The Tennessee Farmland Legacy Conference will open up the floor for families to discuss their farm's future....
Top-10 Winter Checklist
While warm summer temperatures make the challenges of icy, frigid weather seem far away, now is the time to make the preparations that will minimize those...
Pregnancy Diagnosis
Considering the rising cost of feed associated with maintaining a cow through the winter, removing non-pregnant cows from the herd prior to winter would...
Get 'Em GONE
Used to be that keeping and feeding cull cows was a no-brainer: there's lots of compensatory gain to be had with mature cows in their worst condition...
Barley For Beef
Cattle producers may be able to feed lower test-weight barley as feed, Greg Lardy, North Dakota State University Extension beef cattle specialist, says....
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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...
