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September 1, 2009
Cover Story
Stockpiled Savings
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael, Contributing Editor
Every 30 days of grazing stockpiled forage provides a cost savings that is nearly equivalent to increasing your calving rate by 8-10%, explains Dennis...
Genetics
Marker-assisted Feeding
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor
Sometimes, getting to simple can be a very complicated process. Take, as an example, Cargill Cattle Feeders. In mid-2007, the cattle-feeding company began...
Lowdown On Lowlines
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Loretta Sorensen
It was their search for the best way to merchandise the grass covering the rolling hills of their Cody, NE, ranch that led Jerry Adamson and his son Todd...
Muscling In On Markets
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Loretta Sorensen
South Dakota beef producer Jerry Hofer implemented a genetic program for his Lakeview Piedmontese that could become a new driving force in the beef industry....
Planned Crossbreeding Pays
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor
When you're producing cattle, variables are the name of the game. You manage those you can control and deal with those you can't. But in cattle feeding,...
Business
Sky Bandits
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Joe Roybal, Editor
Eating like a bird is a metaphor used to describe someone who eats only small amounts of food or pecks at his vittles. Get enough of these bird-size appetites...
Health
Gunning for a New Old BVDV Strain
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael
What caught our eye was the number of late-day pulls that we couldn't explain, says Scott Anderson, assistant manager for CRI Feeders of Guymon, OK. There...
Environment
Brush Sculpting
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Larry Stalcup
From patch-burn grazing, grubbing cedar and roller-chopping cactus to spraying young mesquite, brush sculpting is an art that can carve out good grazing...
Editor's Roundup
Haste & waste
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Joe Roybal
My uncle once quipped to me that a see-through blouse is like a solar eclipse. You know what's there and you know it's interesting, but you're not supposed...
Beef Xpress
Must Reads
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM
Must Reads Every 30 days of grazing stockpiled forage is nearly equivalent to increasing your calving rate by 8-10%. With that quote from Dennis Hancock,...
Top Stewards
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM
Seven beef operations were tapped as regional winners in the 2009 Environmental Stewardship Award Program (ESAP)...
Farm value falls
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM
Farm real estate values averaged $2,100/acre on Jan. 1, 2009, down 3.2% from 2008...
No meat-cancer link
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM
A checkoff-funded review of more than 10,000 published scientific studies found no causal association between beef and cancer, says Dominick Alexander, an epidemiologist with Exponent...
NAIS suit
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM
U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer in Washington, D.C., dismissed a civil suit filed by the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and a group of Michigan cattlemen against USDA and the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) over the National Animal Identification System (NAIS)...
Organic myth
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM
Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, says a major study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition...
Death Tax relief
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Rep. John Salazar (D-CO) introduced legislation that would provide farmers and ranchers relief from the death tax. H.R. 3524, the Family Farm Preservation and Conservation Estate Tax Act...
BEEF Tech
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM
New waterers Suggestions from customers, distributors and dealers have led to the release of the EcoFount 1 and EcoFount 2 two new highly energy-efficient...
BEEF Online Poll
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM
Would the proposed Waxman-Markey bill that would put carbon cap and trade legislation in place be good or bad for agriculture? Go to beefmagazine.com...
Market Advisor
What cheaper corn means
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Harlan Hughes
Ranchers clearly understand they're at the mercy of the national bio-fuels policy. They also know full well how increasing corn prices the past three...
Cattle Economics
Concentration pro & con
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Wes Ishmael
Whether market concentration is the chicken or the egg, the tail or the dog, it continues to increase. That's no secret. Benefits from this concentration...
Vet's Opinion
Organic math
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Mike Apley
The self-proclaimed agricultural experts trumpeting a movement to organic production as an industry-wide trend have forgotten a few key points. For example,...
My Turn
Brace yourself
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Troy Marshall
Across the board, government revenues are down dramatically. The federal government is in a very similar situation to the dairy industry, which has suffered...
Meat Matters
JBS juggernaut
Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Steve Kay
Who are these guys? was the question many asked when Brazil's JBS SA bought Swift & Company two years ago. Its purchase brought JBS out of obscurity as...
