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Feedlots
USDA Reports Feedlot Numbers Declining
In a recent report, USDA expressed concern about the fifth straight month decline in the number of cattle being grain fed in feedlots. ...
Value of gain historically high
There's no minting money in the current high-cost environment of the cattle business. But steamy prices also offer more lucrative potential to adding...
Hedge In A Profit?
Cattle feeders haven't had much to smile about in the past year or so, what with ethanol-fueled corn prices and persistently strong feeder cattle prices...
Hard To Manage
Trying to manage fuel costs in a feedyard is a bit like paying taxes. Your options are fairly limited. There's just not an easy fix for it, says Sam Stevenson,...
Playing The Hand
As a cattle feeder, observes Alan Janzen, I have to look at what I'm faced with; what is the practical issue here? It's always been thus in a business...
Violative residues
The elimination of violative residues in beef is one of the most important elements facing ranchers and cattle feeders in producing safe food products....
Reality Check
A survey of consulting nutritionists reveals emerging trends and concerns of feedyard managers...
Beyond The Pond
If you manage a feedyard, you manage runoff. Historically, a retention pond that captures and holds runoff from feedyard pens has been the way managers...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
