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January 1, 2008
Cover Stories
Top Stewards
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Environmental stewardship is taking personal responsibility to care for natural resources and ensuring sustainability for future generations. For cattlemen,...
Environmental Maneuvers
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Walt Barnhart
It isn't just developers and livestock operators who have issues with the government's Endangered Species Act (ESA). When endangered species are found...
Beef & Birds
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Kindra Gordon
If someone asked how many cattle you ran on your ranch, surely you'd know a number. But if you were asked how many species of birds and wildlife could...
Features
Ethanol Changes EVERYTHING
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor
As recently as six months ago, or this morning, the immediate and visible changes wrought by subsidized ethanol production seemed much like those that...
8 in '08
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Burt Rutherford / Joe Roybal
Food Safety: For much of 2007, consumer and political concerns over beef safety, particularly E. coli O157:H7, had nearly been crossed off the list of industry issues. Then came the Topps recall...
More High Times
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Larry Stalcup
If you measure success by the kind of song you whistle when it comes time to market your calves, 2007 was most likely a happy tune. Success in '08 may...
Local Politics
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Phillip M. Perry
With the presidential campaign in full swing, you're probably assessing each candidate's support for business-friendly legislation. The priorities of...
Market First
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor
Our Dad and Grandpa always bought cattle cheap, and then upgraded them. This industry has always been about one segment trying to beat up on another one....
Resurrection Of The Bar O The Tom and Jemima Davis Story
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Forsaking an opulent city life for grassy pastures in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon, the Davis family embarked on the demanding life of 20th-century...
Timing is everything
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Clint Peck contributing editor
Most U.S. beef producers manage their livestock around forage-driven production systems. And because beef producers mostly calve in the spring, they wean...
Editor's Roundup
Vets weigh in on calf health
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Joe Roybal editor
Anecdotally, it seems you hear talk here and there about the increased morbidity and mortality in today's calves. But a survey of 500 veterinarians who...
BEEF XPress
This month in brief
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM
There are six products in the UK labeled for pain in food animals, and none in the U.S., writes Vet's Opinion columnist, Mike Apley. In The future of...
Raising meat goats
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM
A new budget spreadsheet from South Dakota State University (SDSU) can help producers calculate the costs of producing goats for the meat-goat market....
Another record CAB year
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Certified Angus Beef (CAB) recorded sales of more than 584 million lbs., the highest mark in its 29-year history, and annual brand sales topped $2.5 billion,...
Philippines open to U.S. Beef
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM
The Philippines has fully opened its market to U.S. beef and beef products of all ages. Imports of U.S. beef and beef products had been restricted to...
Naturally raised claim
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM
USDA wants comments on its proposed voluntary standard for a naturally raised marketing claim for livestock and meat. Published in the Nov. 28 Federal...
New NAIS partner
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM
The National Cattlemen's Foundation (NCF) is partnering with USDA to promote premises registration. Consisting of a record of basic information such as...
Reader's Viewpoint
Accept change and get on with it
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Tom Peters, Ph.D. Consulting Nutritionist Oregon, IL
I'm disturbed by all the complaining today particularly by cattlemen regarding grain-based ethanol. As a consulting nutritionist with 400,000 cattle under...
Market Advisor
Price forecasting part 1
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Harlan Hughes contributing editor
Producers often tell me that one bottleneck to strategic planning of marketing is not knowing which planning prices to use. Thus, I am sharing with ranchers...
Cattle Economics
What is an ethanol cowherd?
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Wes Ishmael contributing editor
Why would success strategies in a business predicated upon cheap feed and cheap energy work when the opposite is true? That's a query John Lawrence, livestock...
My Perspective
A sunrise or a sunset?
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Barry Dunn contributing editor
In comparison to the recent 40-year period of relative stability in the price of the major agriculture commodities, 2007 has seemed like a ride on a giant...
I don't get it, but I understand it
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Troy Marshall contributing editor
I don't get it, but I understand it, is a phrase worthy of legendary baseball sage and manager Yogi Berra. But that brilliant piece of wisdom was actually...
Vets' Opinion
The future of pain
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, by Mike Apley contributing editor
I can guarantee you that many in the 98% of society with no direct ties to agriculture see prevention or treatment of pain in farm animals as a moral...
Research Roundup
Productivity of twins and triplets
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, compiled by Alaina Burt managing editor
Cows have the capacity to gestate twin calves, but not without decreased survival and body weight due to uterine crowding, researchers at USDA's Meat...
BEEF Tech
Drench gun
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, compiled by Alaina Burt managing editor
Intervet's new automatic air-powered drench gun is exclusive to Safe-Guard and Panacur deworming applications for beef and dairy cattle. Air-compression...
