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Planting Intentions Looking Up
The start of what will surely be a number of estimates on planting intentions were released last week, and it shows the ethanol-driven euphoria in corn country is at full throttle...
Betting on the ethanol wager
When it comes to ethanol, figuring out how it's changing the cattle business and the unimagined ways it likely will continue to change it, I have no answers...
Two Feeds Publications Available Online
"Cattle, Corn, and Alternative Feeds" and "Coping with High-Priced Corn" are two publications from South Dakota State University Extension specialists designed to help...
Illinois Extension Plans Co-Product Feeding Seminars
Grain Price Estimates Rise
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
Corn Loses Some Steam
Corn Production Pegged Lower
CME & CBOT To Merge, Create $25-Billion Exchange
Winter Wheat Needing Rain
Winter Wheat Hopes Dwindling
Corn Prices Running Counter To Global Supply Outlook
Global Grain Supplies Decline
Added Bulk Extends Wet Distillers Grain Storage
Global Grain Supplies Decline; Pasture Condition Noted
Time To Lock In DDG?
As feed rations continue to replace corn with wet and dry distillers grains, cattle feeders need to focus more on managing distillers grain prices....
Corn Pegged at 11.1 Billion Bushels
Look Hard At DDG Prices Soon
Ethanol-Powered Cows
The ethanol industry is on the fast track for expansion as fuel prices skyrocket. Its production has been expanding at breakneck speed for the past few...
Fitting DDGs into feeding rations
The increasing availability of dried distillers grains (DDGs), a feed-grain by-product resulting from grain conversion into ethanol, begs the question...
USDA Boosts Corn Estimates In Latest Report
Corn Estimates Grow
Drought Zaps Wheat Crop
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...
