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Troy Marshall
Corn Hits $7; Ethanol Apologists Grow More Shrill
The corn market trended higher this week with December corn flirting with the $7/bu. level this week. In addition, USDA lowered its expected yield by 5 bu./acre to 148.9...
Grandma Had Good Advice For Political Strategists
One of my grandmother’s favorite admonishments to me and my brother was that “criticizing another’s garden doesn’t keep weeds out of your own.” My favorite ...
The Seedstock Industry Has Lost A Little Confidence
Few would describe the U.S. beef industry as overly optimistic these days. After all, the prodigious and deep change wracking the beef economy has ...
Happy Father’s Day!
We were all sitting around last week talking about our dads and how, growing up, we all loved and respected our dads but never wanted to cross the line with ...
This election could devastate us
Don't get excited, I won't give my opinion of the candidates or look at how they stand on issues important to the cattle industry and agriculture in general....
The Horse Ban & The Law Of Unintended Consequences
The banning of horse slaughter in the U.S. was one of those emotional ideas everyone agreed with initially and that rather handily passed into law...
Here Comes The Veto!
One has to keep in mind that the $300-billion farm bill is largely about nutrition programs and conservation; only marginally is it about grain production. Nor ...
Enthusiasm Is The Key To Great Accomplishments
It’s been said thousands of times that “nothing great is ever accomplished without enthusiasm,” something that’s especially true in ag. When one is dealing with ...
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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...
