Cattle Market Update
From Steve Kay, editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly. Catch a roundup of each week’s cattle-market activity every Friday afternoon! View the market review now!
Top Reader's Picks
advertisement
Cow Calf Weekly
Subscribe to our weekly newsletter... It's FREE!
Genetics TIPS from American Cowman
More Topics
Online Exclusives
- The Briefing Room: BEEF Business Updates
- BEEFtv: Videos from around the industry
- BEEF News Roundup: Industry news & blog feeds - Updated Daily!
- BEEF Cartoons: Need to brighten your day?
- South America Study Tour: Travelogue and photos
- The BEEF Mailbag: Share your Viewpoint!
PINGING For Premiums
Remember those old WW II movies? The ones where U.S. Navy ships are trolling for enemy submarines and the only sound that cuts the tension-thick air is...
Producers Say Ultrasounding Commercial Heifers Pays
Remember those old World War II movies? The ones where the Navy ships are trolling for enemy submarines and the only sound that cuts the tension-thick air is the "ping" of the sonar? ...
Bovigen Announces DNA Test For Feed Efficiency
Bovigen announces the cattle industry's first and only DNA test that can identify an animal's genetic ability to efficiently convert feed. The GeneSTAR(R) Feed Efficiency test can ...
Beef-Quality Paradox
Depending on who runs the numbers, the percentage of beef cattle grading Choice or higher has remained static or declined. This is despite an extraordinary...
Consumers And Cloning
The safety is clear. It's the emotional aspects that tend to muddy things in consumers' minds. And so, just as with nearly every issue that the cattle...
It All Began With An ID Tag
We began with the great unknown and a question -- what really is our end-product in this process we call ranching? Our family views raising commercial cattle as a handiwork but ...
MARC Releases 2007 Across-Breed EPD Calculations
USDA's Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) has released its table of adjustment factors to be used to estimate ...
Continuing Commitment
The challenge to BIF is to remain dynamic and move into the 21st century with a program attuned to the technology of that era. Embryo transfer, cloning...
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...
