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When Wheat Doesn't Come
When wheat pasture isn't, stocker operators who rely on it have two options: wish the cattle well with their new owners, or figure out how to feed through...
$10,000 Is On The Table
When some in the U.S. beef industry a few years ago were predicting the demise of the stocker segment of U.S. beef production, BEEF magazine was building...
Stocker home-study course
The University of Minnesota Beef Team is offering a Stocker Backgrounder Nutrition and Management home study course. Lesson topics include nutrition;...
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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...






















