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The Economics Of $4 Diesel And One-Ton Trucks
With record-high prices on new vehicles, $4/gal. fuel, and the limited maintenance and repairs that can be performed at the ranch on newer model vehicles, how ...
Whatever Happened To Irradiation?
It was eight years ago on May 16 that irradiated ground beef first became commercially available in the U.S. That was the day that frozen ground beef patties in two-lb. boxes ...
Ins And Outs Of Byproducts
The search for renewable fuels has spurred revolutionary growth in biodiesel and ethanol production. As a result, the beef industry is scrambling to fill...
This Election Could Devastate The Cattle Industry
Don’t get excited, I’m not going to give you my opinion of the candidates or look at how they stand on issues important to the cattle industry and ag, in general. In fact, this ...
A Humbled Industry Takes A Different Election Approach
The last presidential election seemed to be the perfect opportunity for the cattle industry. On almost every important issue, including the environment, taxes, private-property rights, ...
Consider Summer Forages In Your Drought Strategy
Last year’s drought in the Southeast showed many cattle producers that summer is a critical time in a cow-calf operation, says Gary Bates, Tennessee Extension forage specialist ...
Now Is the Time To Sort Old Cows
As unpleasant as the thought of reducing a cowherd is, a plan needs to be ready in the event that dry conditions persist, says Kris Ringwall, ...
Tips For Controlling Red Cedar And Musk Thistle
In his latest “Hay & Forage Minute,” Bruce Anderson, University of Nebraska Extension forage agronomist, offers the following tips for controlling red cedar and ...
Tips For Storing And Feeding Distillers Grains
If concern about mold and spoilage of wet distillers grains (WDG) has limited your use of this nutrient-rich byproduct of the ethanol industry, it may be time to give ...
What Do We Know About The Future?
What do we know about the future? The “easy” and only certain answer is simply that the future will be both dramatically different and yet strikingly similar. That ...
Beef Export News Is Positive
Exports of beef muscle cuts increased 36% to 168.5 million lbs. (76,445 metric tons) the first two months of 2008 when compared to the same two-month period in...
Brazilian Beef Exporters Target Pacific Rim Countries
Despite being locked out of 56% of the world’s beef-importing countries because of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), including the lucrative markets of Korea and Japan, Brazil ...
Some Tips For Adjusting To The New Economic Reality
Rory Lewandowski, Ohio State University Extension educator in Athens County, asks in the latest Ohio Beef Cattle Letter if the high input prices of today ...
Why Should Anyone Care About Record Corn Prices?
Sometimes you have to take a step backwards to a get a clear view. This week, as corn was setting new all-time highs, I found myself mired in the numbers trying to make the decision to ...
Cattle Buyers Summits Set For Three States
A series of special cattle industry events are designed for anyone who trades feeder cattle, fed cattle and non-fed beef animals – as well as ...
Democrats Look To Pull A Fast One On Trade Rules
In early April, President Bush placed the U.S.-Colombia free-trade pact in the hands of Congress, which under “fast-track” rules then had 90 days to provide an up-or-down vote ...
Minnesota Drop In TB Status Is Official
On Wednesday, Minnesota’s bovine tuberculosis (TB) status officially dropped from Modified Accredited Advanced to Modified Accredited. The downgrade is effective immediately ...
Pinkeye Continues To Be A Head-Scratching Affair
We've all seen it. That white spot on a calf's eye that sticks out like a sore thumb in the cowherd. A quick scan of others includes a mental inventory of teary...
WTO Ruling On Hormones Is Bittersweet
This week, I couldn’t help but get excited when I read the headlines regarding the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on the European hormone ban. After all, the headlines asserted in one way or another that the ...
The Cursed Comfort Zone
Here’s one of my favorite jokes: A rancher is walking through his pasture one day and stumbles on a lamp. He picks it up and, just like the other stories, out pops a genie. The ...
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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...
