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Beef Quality

The road to the summit

Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Joe Roybal editor

Registration is now open for the 2008 BEEF Quality Summit, BEEF magazine's third annual symposium on the beef quality topic. The theme of this year's...


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Beef Quality Assurance

Violative residues

by Clint Peck contributing editor

The elimination of violative residues in beef is one of the most important elements facing ranchers and cattle feeders in producing safe food products....

Tracking Cloned Livestock

Alaina Burt

In December, livestock cloning companies ViaGen, Inc. and Trans Ova Genetics introduced a supply chain management program to identify cloned animals as...

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Cattle Handling

The changing corn environment

by Harlan Hughes contributing editor

Part II: Short-term management implications The bottom line to the changing corn environment is that feedlot costs of gain (COG) will increase substantially...

The shape of things to come

by Dave Sjeklocha contributing editor

I came to a revelation recently that troubles me. Twenty years ago, my wife would have warned anyone to avoid the subject of animal-rights groups unless...

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2007 Beef Quality Summit

"Beef Quality In The Ethanol Era" - Watch the presentations from the Beef Quality Summit, held Nov. 7-8 in Omaha, NE.

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From Our Columnists

Jim Gerrish

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...

Jim Gerrish Archive

Harlan Hughes

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...

Harlan Hughes Archive

Mark Hilton

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...

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