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Flying Turnips or Rye Into Corn
Corn stalks are one of the better and least expensive winter feeds we have. ...
Jerry Wulf focuses on the end-product
Jerry Wulf from Morris, MN, wears many hats in the cattle business. The Wulf operation encompasses three different entities: Leonard Wulf & Sons, Inc.,...
Power of perspective
When anxious bull customers call on Bridgewater, IA cattleman Dave Nichols, he's quick to share his optimism: cow efficiency, domestic demand and export...
Coming To America
A philosophy that 100% grass-fed beef produces the highest quality meat has led Gearld Fry and a group of co-investors to import an entire herd, consisting...
Continuing Commitment
The challenge to BIF is to remain dynamic and move into the 21st century with a program attuned to the technology of that era. Embryo transfer, cloning...
Forty Years of Foresight
January 1967 marked an important beginning for the beef industry. Cattle producers and researchers gathered in Denver for a meeting during the National...
Measuring Doability
Most of the efficiency work underway today is focused on growing cattle. While cow feed costs are of overriding importance in integrated beef-production...
Predicting "Doability" In Cattle
There's something almost mystical about "doability" in cattle. We all think we know what it is when we see it -- steers that keep gaining during a Panhandle snowstorm, cows 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...























