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Feedlots
What Feeders Want When They Go To Buy Feeder Cattle
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
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....
Cattle on Feed Numbers Released
Nebraska feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained almost 2.2 million cattle on feed on Oct. 1, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Nebraska Field Office....
America’s top cattle feeders | Feted Feeders
Grid-based marketing didn't just appear out of the blue. Paul Engler, founding chairman of Texas-based Cactus Feeders one of the largest cattle-feeding...
Cattle on Feed Numbers Released
Colorado: The number of cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in Colorado feedlots with a capacity of 1,000 head or larger was estimated at 860,000 head as of Sept. 1. ...
Sky Bandits
Eating like a bird is a metaphor used to describe someone who eats only small amounts of food or pecks at his vittles. Get enough of these bird-size appetites...
Cattle Feed Yards Struggle As Consumers Shy Away From Beef
Cattle feed yards in the Texas Panhandle and elsewhere have been operating at a loss for 18 months, and while many would like to sell their sprawling operations, there are either no buyers or no banks willing to provide financing, industry observers say....
Hanging Tough
Challenges facing California producers and feeders are as volatile as a ride on Disneyland's Space Mountain. They face a lot of twists and turns that...
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...
