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New Cattle-Feeding Margin Feature At beefmagazine.com
Since August, BEEF has been providing a Friday afternoon roundup of each week’s cattle-market activity at beefmagazine.com....
Feedlot Roundtable Offered In Three Nebraska Locations
Feedlot managers, owners, employees and allied industry can learn the latest on feedlot management at the 2009 Nebraska Beef Feedlot Roundtable. Meetings are set for:...
Optimism tinged with caution
Given that feedyards have been unable to even get a sniff at a sustained profit the last several years, any hint of optimism is like a long, cold drink...
Cattle on feed inventory
South Dakota's 1,000+ capacity feedlots reported 220,000 cattle on feed for the slaughter market on December 1, according to the South Dakota office of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. ...
Argentine cattle move from Pampas to feedlots
Cows grazing freely on the vast Pampas have long been part of Argentine tradition....
Feedyards left with markets
We're the tail on the dog. That's how Scott Keeling, owner and manager of Keeling Cattle Feeders at Hereford, TX, describes the effect of the world's...
Kansas feedyards see sharp decline in cattle
At a time when the consumer appetite for beef is waning amid the economic downturn, the number of cattle going into feedlots in Kansas and across the nation also has taken a steep dive. ...
U.S. Cattle on Feed Down 7 Percent
Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.0 million head on November 1, 2008. The inventory was 7 percent below November 1, 2007 and 8 percent below November 1, 2006....
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...
