The Prediction Is Pain

Between Hard Spots

The Toughening Of America

Time To Pull Leather?

Studies Show Southeastern Cattle Do Measure Up

Best Guesses In The New Age

By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor

Ask a dozen folks how to plan for the next 12 months and you'll get plenty of discussion based on myriad qualifications and assumptions, but few confident...

The golden age of agriculture?

by Joe Roybal editor

Economist Bill Helming says he's generally bearish on the overall U.S. economy and expects it to suffer a serious and painful recession within the 2008-2009...

Market NowOr Later?

By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor

In sizing up calf marketing this fall, Dillon Feuz, Utah State University livestock marketing specialist, says there will be some profit opportunities,...

Tough & On Top

By Larry Stalcup

After running a South Texas ranch for 40 years, Bill Crain might know a thing or two about producing quality calves and marketing them at the right time....

Tough & On Top

By Larry Stalcup

After running a South Texas ranch for 40 years, Bill Crain might know a thing or two about producing quality calves and marketing them at the right time....

2007 alliance yellow pages

2007 marks BEEF magazine's 10th annual listing of industry alliances. Categorized by consumer-based programs, where the focus is on finding, feeding and marketing cattle according to predefined consumer product specifications...

Topsy-Turvy

By Larry Stalcup

When was the last time stocker production was harder than marketing? Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist, asks that question in light of little, if any, wheat pasture available for grazing on the dry High Plains and the disastrous drought in the Southeast...

More High Times

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...

Will the Market Ration Corn Use?

By Burt Rutherford

It hasn’t yet, but it’s not out of the question, says Gregg Doud, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association chief economist...

Storing Distillers Grains

By Kindra Gordon

If concern about mold and spoilage of wet distillers grains (WDG) has limited your use of this nutrient-rich byproduct of the ethanol industry, it may...