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Blaming Biofuels For Food Prices Ignores Reality 

It’s becoming rather tiresome – the war of words and press releases as to whether the diversion of millions of bushels of grains to biofuels production ...

Court Orders Limited CRP Haying & Grazing 

In a court order that had both sides claiming victory, Judge John C. Coughenour of the U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington in Seattle, on ...

Four Firms Weighing In On Beef Alliances 

With skyrocketing production costs and tough consumer economic conditions, the beef industry is facing ...

Husker Bruce Anderson Talks About Turnips 

Turnips make for some great extra grazing, says Bruce Anderson, University of ...

Futures Trading Finds Itself In The Spotlight 

Oil may end up affecting the cattle pits. Record oil prices have created a severe backlash, and speculators ...

CRP Restraining Order Frustrates Cattlemen 

Confusion and frustration ruled in many rural areas of the country last week after a federal judge in Washington state issued a temporary restraining ...

Five Ways To Maximize Farmland Ownership Profits 

Farmers National Company offers the following tips to maximize the profitability of ...

Is Global Warming Building Steam Or Cooling Off? 

Perhaps more than any other scientific issue, global warming has been difficult to assess, primarily because it so quickly became politicized in ...

2008 Across-Breed EPD Table Released 

The table of adjustment factors to be used to estimate across-breed expected progeny differences (AB-EPDs) for 16 breeds was presented ...

Bill Mies Looks At The Industry’s Next 12-18 Months 

It doesn't take Bill Mies long to roll out his best-case scenario for the next 18 months. That's because the beef management consultant, and former ...

Forage Prices Haven’t Yet Caught Up With Corn Prices 

To help put the change in feed costs the last couple of years into perspective, James Mintert, Kansas State ...

Guard Against Nitrates By Testing Forage Pre-Harvest  

Hot, dry summer weather brings about heat and drought stress on summer forage crops. Stressed plants such ...

EU Farmers Take To The Streets Over Prices 

The summer of 2008 may well be remembered as the year farmers stood up to say “no” to falling prices and higher ...

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 

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Jim Gerrish

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...

Jim Gerrish Archive

Harlan Hughes

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...

Harlan Hughes Archive

Mark Hilton

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...

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