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Anybody's Guess
It's pretty hard to have a conversation nowadays that doesn't turn, sooner or later and usually sooner, toward ethanol. Questions abound. Corn prices?...
Gone Forever?
Say all you want about historically high cattle prices, the longest sustained period of cow-calf profitability on record, robust consumer beef demand...
Ethanol Impacts Will Continue For Quite Some Time
It's almost mind-boggling to contemplate that up to 40% of this year's corn crop could be used in ethanol production. The demand for ethanol and its financial incentives are only growing as ...
Study Says Ethanol Increasing Food Prices
A study released this week estimates that increased corn prices "driven by rapidly expanding" U.S. ethanol production have increased U.S. retail food prices by $14 billion annually...
Expect Every Acre Of Corn That Weather Will Allow
After USDA's recent report indicated that more acres were going to be planted to corn than any time in the last 60 years, the corn market...
Ethanol, Corn Will Weigh On Livestock Industry
Future ethanol production and demand for distiller's grains will lead to lower cattle prices and higher consumer meat prices, David Anderson, a Texas Cooperative Extension economist, told attendees of the 2007 Texas Ag Forum in Austin recently...
Some Facts & Myths Regarding Higher Corn Prices
Everyone's speculating that higher corn prices will fuel a drive to make cattle bigger on grass, with an end-result of fewer days on feed...
Administration pushes ethanol
In his State of the Union address in January, President Bush proposed the goal of blending 35 billion gals. of biofuels by 2017 (a fivefold increase from...
President Bush Calls For More Ethanol Production
Energy Takes Center Stage This Week
Call For Formation Of Biofuels Working Group
Ethanol Phenomenon Is "Like a Freight Train"
USDA Economist Provides Ethanol Drain Picture
Ethanol Phenomenon Is "Like a Freight Train"
Corn Production Cut; Demand For Ethanol Steady
Permanent Ethanol Tax Incentives Proposed
Ethanol Fallout
Can a feedyard afford to ship in corn at $3-$4/bu.? What if it's too far from an ethanol plant to receive the byproduct? Can it match a plant's bids?...
Rise In Corn Price Could Be To Beef's Advantage
Study Says Biodiesel To Boost Economy By $24 Billion
Random Thoughts On Cattle & The Corn Rally
Ethanol In Brazil -- Impacting Cattle Production There, Too
A Follow-Up To Last Week's Ethanol Discussion
Adding To The Great Ethanol Debate
25x25 Renewal Energy Proposition Gets House Support
10 Million More Acres Needed for Ethanol
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...
