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Twine Ain't Feed
During most years when winter comes, so does snow....
US Feed Outlook
The 2008/09 corn use forecast is lowered this month as financial and macroeconomic developments are continuing to weaken corn demand....
Commodity Rally Will Depend on Health of U.S. Economy
Stabilization of the economy is what it will take for U.S. grain and oilseed farmers to continue to expect higher prices for their crops. ...
Anti-quality Factors in Beef Cattle Diets
Under certain conditions, beef cattle may be exposed to forages and feeds containing toxic or harmful compounds....
Maximizing Winter Grazing Opportunities
Because purchased and harvested feeds are such a large proportion of the overall costs making significant reductions in this area will help reduce overall costs. ...
Take Care of Your Hay, It Has Value
Not long ago, cheap commodity prices made it easy to look at hay as just filler. Nutritional deficiencies could be inexpensively corrected by feeding a supplement. Those days are gone, and quality hay has real value when compared to a commodity feed, but the value is in nutritional quality....
Hard Freeze Could Reduce Row Crop Yields in Some Areas
Normally a hard freeze in late October or early November in Kansas comes too late to hurt row crop yields....
Evaluate Your Winter Feed Needs
As summer winds down, the production of hay and other ranch/farm-raised feeds is in its final days. ...
Grain Processing Increases Profits
The primary goal of grain processing is to increase energy (starch) availability to improve cattle performance. ...
USDA Predicts Nation’s Second-Largest Corn Crop
USDA's much-anticipated “Crop Report” indicates the U.S. could have the second-largest corn crop in history...
The changing corn environment
Part 1: Uncharted waters Managing a beef cowherd in today's corn environment is like sailing uncharted waters. Ranchers' past experiences may not be of...
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...
Feed Scramble
European consumers have long had an aversion to genetically modified organisms (GMO), be it in their food or in the feed used to rear their meat...
2007 U.S. Corn Crop Tops The Record Book
The 2007 U.S. corn crop's final production tally is 13.1 billion bu., which eclipses the previous high, set in 2004, of 11.8 billion bu. According to USDA's "Crop Production 2007 Summary," released Jan. 11 by USDA's National Ag Statistics Service (NASS), 2007 production topped 2006's by 24%. Cotton and rice yields also hit all-time highs...
Accept change and get on with it
I'm disturbed by all the complaining today particularly by cattlemen regarding grain-based ethanol. As a consulting nutritionist with 400,000 cattle under...
PSA enforcement
Twelve senators have written the Senate Agriculture Committee urging provisions in the farm bill that improve enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards...
Wheat Shift
Used to be, the primary question concerning wheat pasture was whether or not Mother Nature would make a crop. Now the questions are as much about whether...
Competing with the Big Boys
Gerald Scheckel the farmer added more corn acres this year. An ethanol-fueled price near $4 will do that for a Midwest grower with about 5,000 tillable...
USDA Predicts Record-Breaking Sorghum Yield
USDA is forecasting a record-production year for sorghum. Based on Sept. 1 conditions the agency projects a 495-million-bu. crop, which would be 78% larger than last year....
Bin-busting corn
USDA's Aug. 10 crop production report projected a U.S. corn crop of 13.1 billion bu., a 3-million bu. jump over July's projection and the largest corn...
USDA To Unveil NAIS "Business Plan" This Fall
USDA's effort to register America's livestock premises is "picking up momentum," says Bruce Knight, USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs. As of Aug. 20...
Distiller's Grains Usage
Like it or not, distiller's grains will figure into feedyard rations for the foreseeable future. To learn more about how the rapid growth in ethanol production...
A Matter Of Size
Should you pick a small feedyard over a large one to obtain the best quality-grading carcass? If you consider summarized data compiled by Certified Angus...
Grab Your Partner
Expect the formation of inter-sector alliances to get a boost over the next few years, says Kansas City economist Bill Helming. Like kids scrambling when...
Rising Feed Costs Force Change
Cow-calf producers face the continued challenge of rising feed costs. In an ethanol-dominated world, it isn't going to get any better...
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...
