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LESSONS Hard Learned
Used to be, if you wanted to make significant genetic improvement in your herd, you needed to focus on identifying and culling the bottom 20% of your...
Court Upholds Horse Slaughter Ban
The 7th U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago last Friday upheld an Illinois state law that bans the slaughter of horses for human consumption, likely forcing the closure...
Grab Your Partner
Expect the formation of inter-sector alliances to get a boost over the next few years, says Kansas City economist Bill Helming. Like kids scrambling when...
Swift buyout good for cattlemen
The largest South American meat packer just gobbled up another struggling competitor. J&F Participaes S.A. of Sao Paulo, Brazil, parent company of JBS-Friboi,...
R-CALF Is Wrong In Its GIPSA Study Analysis
-CALF USA's recent analysis of a congressionally mandated USDA GIPSA RTI Livestock and Meat Marketing Study (LMMS) is based on an "incorrect economic interpretation."...
Smithfield gets bigger
Smithfield Foods, the largest U.S. pork producer and processor, completed the purchase of its rival and the nation's second-largest pork producer, Premium...
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 ...
Swift & Company Goes Brazilian
Months of rumor and speculation ended this week with the announcement that Swift & Company was to be purchased by J&F Particpacoes S.A. of Brazil. J&F owns 77% of JBS, the largest beef processor in Brazil. ...
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...

















