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December 1, 2007

Cover Story

2008 RFID Survey

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Joe Roybal

It's been five years since BEEF magazine and Kansas State University (KSU) teamed up to deliver the industry's first survey of firms offering radio-frequency ID (RFID) technology for cattle-industry application...

Features

BEEF Chat: Touching Base

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Joe Roybal Editor

Bruce Knight comments on the National Animal Identification System.
Q: As of Nov. 5, signups of premises under the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) were at 423,781, or about...

Read THIS

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor

Even before electronic cattle ID has become the rule rather than the exception, plenty of ID equipment purchased by well-meaning producers has already been relegated to paperweight status...

Computer Savvy: Analysis

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Alaina Burt Managing Editor

I've got records, now what? cattle producers in South Dakota kept asking. They got their answers in 2002 by joining a Standardized Performance Analysis (SPA) Integrated Resource Management (IRM) group...

REJECTED?

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

Cowboy wisdom holds that the first thing you should do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Good advice, but it's advice some in the beef...

Basis for Risk

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor

When we learn about hedging in school, we learn that as the futures market moves, the cash market should move with it, and ideally in a 1:1 relationship,...

Editor's Roundup

Gather around the campfire

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Joe Roybal editor

This month, BEEF ventures into a new venue by partnering with the North American Limousin Foundation (NALF) on a series of Internet programs aimed at...

BEEF XPress

This month in brief

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Some folks lament the trend of consolidation while chafing and bucking at the prospect of individual animal ID. But contributing editor Wes Ishmael says...

Industry fights cancer report

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

While late October's release of the report Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective drew praises from anti-beef activists, beef-industry leaders said the report should be taken with skepticism...

Schafer tapped for USDA

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

President Bush has nominated former North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer to be the next USDA Secretary. Having served as governor from 1992-2000, Schafer currently...

Get active in politics

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

In the last two election cycles, more agriculture leadership in the U.S. House and Senate has been lost than ever before, says John Queen, National Cattlemen's...

EPA looks for advice

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is forming a Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee to advise the EPA administrator on...

Cattle Economics

ID widens the gap

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Wes Ishmael contributing editor

Some thought country-of-origin labeling (COOL) would spur the adoption of individual animal ID in the beef cattle business. Depending on how you read...

My Perspective: Troy Marshall

Packer ban is a step backwards

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Troy Marshall contributing editor

At press time, the Senate Agriculture Committee had just included language that would place a ban on packer ownership of livestock - in the Senate version...

Grazier's Page

Stock water and winter grazing

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Jim Gerrish contributing editor

Providing stock water on winter pastures is one of the ongoing challenges of a year-round grazing program. Many cattlemen feel they don't have the water...

Research Roundup

Protein for pregnant cows

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

New Mexico State University researchers sought to determine if providing a post-ruminal supply of a specific limited amino acid, methionine (Met), would...

BEEF Tech

Products: Diesel-fueled ATV, Igenity profile applied, Superior selects tag, Versatile combination trailer, Building options

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, compiled by Alaina Burt managing editor

Arctic Cat's diesel-fueled ATV is equipped with an in-line 700-twin cylinder, SOHC diesel engine that provides 50% greater fuel mileage over similarly...

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