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Tough Times In Canada
While Canada is often thought of as an extension of the U.S. due to the numerous similarities, it’s still ...
Paralyzed Today Waiting For The Changes Of Tomorrow
Change, change, change. At times, it’s difficult to sit through yet another ...
Beef Exports Continue To Climb
Exports of U.S. beef are continuing their upward trend, the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) says. During the week of June 13-19, U.S. beef export sales exceeded ...
Beef Well-Positioned For Current Economic Challenges
The beef-cattle industry is well positioned to successfully compete and thrive given record-high corn ...
Who Can Afford Corn? Almost No One, Economist Says
Inexpensive and abundant corn helped move the ethanol industry into the alternative-fuels fast...
Changing Supply/Demand Picture Reshaping Foreign Outlook
A Year Of Extremes
U.S. Beef Trade To South Korea To Resume. No, Really!
Packing Industry Struggles Continue
HSUS Videos Engender Varied Emotions
What To Do In This Negative Business Environment
This week, I received a phone call from a bright young lady preparing a speech for an upcoming national heifer show and competition. Her speech centered ...
So Is The Economy Really That Bad? Indicators Say “No”
Droughts, floods, seemingly uncontrollable market factors – I'll be the first to admit it’s easy to ...
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 ...
NCBA Urges Senate To Re-Evaluate RFS
With persistently wet conditions in parts of the Midwest worsening and some areas suffering catastrophic flooding, cattlemen ...
Obama Vs. McCain – What’s The Difference?
With the top of the two party tickets now seemingly fixed, we can now – from an ag and, more importantly, a ranching perspective – try to determine ...
A Chat With Randy Blach On The Beef Economy
Summing up the state of the cattle business has never been easier: input costs are historically high and likely ...
Protect Your Herd From High-Sulfate Water
Connee Quinn’s terse note to herself from the summer 2002 is as searing as the drought that withered ...
Tips For Preventing Pasture Bloat
Pasture bloat is primarily a disease of cattle that graze pastures where legumes make up greater ...
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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...
