Beef Magazine

Tips For Controlling Red Cedar And Musk Thistle 

Apr 24, 2008

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 

Apr 24, 2008

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? 

Apr 17, 2008 - by Troy Marshall

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 

Apr 17, 2008

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 

Apr 17, 2008

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  

Apr 17, 2008

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? 

Apr 11, 2008 - by Troy Marshall

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 

Apr 11, 2008 - by Clint Peck

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 

Apr 11, 2008 - by Joe Roybal and Scott Shearer

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 

Apr 11, 2008 - by Alaina Burt

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 

Apr 11, 2008 - by Alaina Burt

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 

Apr 4, 2008 - by Troy Marshall

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 

Apr 4, 2008 - by Troy Marshall

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 ...

Argentine Beef Crisis Is Perhaps At An End 

Apr 4, 2008

For three weeks, Argentine farmers blocked farm goods and livestock from reaching Argentine cities, stripping supermarket shelves of food and meat, paralyzing beef and grain exports and sparking a political crisis. The blockade – ...

Is Your Dewormer Working? 

Apr 4, 2008 - by Joe Roybal

Anthelmintics (dewormers) are among history’s miracle drugs. Since first introduced in the 1960s, these products have literally helped feed a growing planet by increasing the efficiency and sheer volume of cattle, sheep and goat production. ...

Getting Better 

Apr 1, 2008 - By Larry Stalcup

Manage. Monitor. Market. That's the best advice Dan Hale gives producers eager to enhance the quality and value of culled cows and bulls they send to...

Body condition scoring 

Apr 1, 2008 - by Clint Peck contributing editor

The practice of assigning a body condition score (BCS) to a cow is a great management tool for identifying nutritional needs in a beef cowherd. There's...

Ten Years Later 

Apr 1, 2008 - By Clint Peck Contributing Editor

The past decade has brought tremendous change to beef-production systems across the world. Nowhere is this more true than in South America. It's these...

Fall Calving Makes Sense In The Tall-Fescue Zone 

Mar 28, 2008 - By Jim Gerrish – www.americangrazinglands.com

Spring may not seem the right time to be thinking about the virtues of fall calving, but if you live in the tall-fescue zone of the U.S., you should be thinking about it right now. Spring and early summer is when ...

This Is The Time When Investments Pay Off 

Mar 28, 2008 - By Troy Marshall

If you’ve attended just about any industry meeting the last couple of years, likely someone talked about the value of building relationships and collecting and using information. The trouble is that while we all ...

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