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National Beef To Roll Out Natural Angus Product
Deal on Iowa plant said near
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports Tama, IA, is getting closer to reopening its Iowa Quality Beef Processing Plant. In the article, Keith DeHaan, a Kansas...
Packers announce expansions
Smithfield Foods will build a packing plant soon in the Southern Plains, with a second plant on the drawing board. The first plant will cost $150 million,...
Ag Committee Holds Hearing On P&SA Management
Senators call for hearings on GIPSA
A bipartisan group of 12 U.S. Senators led by Tom Harkin (D-IA) wants the Senate Agriculture Committee to hold hearings on USDA's failure to enforce the...
Bill touches on animal contracts
U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) introduced S. 2131, which seeks to prevent arbitration in livestock and poultry contracts unless...
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...
