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Packer-Ownership Ban Survives Senate Committee
The Senate Ag Committee included language that would place a ban on packer ownership of livestock in the Senate version of the farm bill. ...
Talking the game vs. living it
I've attended some educational meetings where I learned that by instituting some changes in our grazing strategy I was sure we could consistently reduce...
Does A New Japanese Ag Minister Equal New Hope?
Japan introduced another ag minister this week, which begs the obvious question: "Will the leadership change slow up the process of liberalizing Japan's market to U.S. beef products?" The answer is undoubtedly yes....
State Fair Fiasco Story Just Keeps Giving & Giving
I'm amazed at how vehement the vocal minority can be on some issues. It seems the debate over the Colorado State Fair (CSF) disqualifications has taken yet another shift ("Colorado State Fair Fiasco Tops This Week's Bloopers," Aug. 31 BEEF Cow-Calf Weekly). ...
There's Only One Cure To Excess Feeding Capacity
Talk to almost any cattle feeder for very long and he'll express dismay at the cost of feeder cattle and calves. Despite a fed market averaging...
R-CALF's Canadian Suit Fails Again
Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF) added to its long list of courtroom setbacks this week when...
Colorado State Fair Fiasco Tops This Week's Bloopers
I've heard it said many times that the problem with any youth program is the parents. To that we might add: "and those who are in charge of enforcing the rules but refuse to do it."...
A Cowboy Knew How To Choose His Enemies
If you're like me, you love to read a good western novel. Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, and even Elmer Kelton didn't write the kind of books that require a whole lot of thought on the reader's part. Rarely did they even have plots that would have been considered surprising...
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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...
