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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 ...
Three keys to growing demand
The beef industry has long understood that from a demand standpoint, the mission is quite simple. We need to increase the number of customers, the average...
Should we just accept and adapt?
Accept and adapt has certainly been the rallying cry of leading management gurus regarding the government-created ethanol boom. These experts have a valid...
It's Stock Show Time In Denver
Football has the Super Bowl, soccer has the World Cup, and baseball has its World Series. For the seedstock and show industries, it's the National Western Stock Show (NWSS), ...
Clones Are Halfway To Approval -- Consumers Are Next
The biggest news of the week was the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) announcement that clones from cattle, swine and goats are safe for human consumption. ...
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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...
