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About Harlan Hughes
A North Dakota State University professor emeritus, Harlan Hughes writes "Market Advisor," a monthly column in BEEF magazine, and he makes presentations at many state, regional and national beef industry events. He retired as the NDSU Extension livestock economist in 2000 and now lives in Laramie, WY.
Contact Prof. Hughes at 701/238-9607 or e-mail Harlan: harlan.hughes@gte.net.
What's a bred heifer worth this fall?
As more normal rainfall patterns return, ranchers will need to repopulate their herds. The good news: bringing bred heifers into your herd over the next...
40 years of on-farm computing
By focusing on the last 40 years of on-farm computing for farmers and ranchers, my goal is to stimulate ranchers to move from a traditional production...
Annual Convention Highlights
Cattle Industry Awards Harlan Hughes honored with 2004 IRM Achievement Award. BEEF magazine columnist Harlan Hughes is the recipient of the 2004 Integrated...
Bump Up Your Economic Efficiency
In light of the discovery of the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the U.S., damage control has to be foremost on ranchers' minds....
Going Head To Head
A comparative analysis is the single, most powerful, farm and ranch management tool available. It's a tool that works especially well as a way to identify...
Managing For Better Or Worse
During the last decade, my high-profit Integrated Resource Management (IRM) cooperators demonstrated that the herds that best survive the market's volatile...
The Importance Of UCOP
Beef producers traditionally have focused their beef cow management attention on physical production traits. Typically, this has meant that weaning weights...
Brazil, 33 years later
In early February, my wife and I accompanied a farm and ranch tour of Brazil sponsored by BEEF and The Corn And Soybean Digest (formerly Soybean Digest)...
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...
