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Feed Markets
Ethanol-Subsidy Cuts Needed, Says USDA Secretary
Does the ethanol industry rely too heavily on government subsidies? ...
Cows & Distillers
With prices for feed, fuel and pasture driving up cow costs and drought seemingly always just around the corner ranchers are looking for ways to sharpen...
USDA Forecasts 2% Less Alfalfa
Sufficient rainfall in much of the country will result in slightly higher average alfalfa yields than harvested last year, USDA predicts. But the yield gain won’t offset a 4% drop in acreage...
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Catch a roundup of each week’s cattle-market activity each Friday afternoon at beefmagazine.com. Steve Kay, editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly...
Locking In Your CORN
Incredibly high grain prices apparently aren't going away, and plentiful supplies of corn might be harder to find for feedyard managers. But by contracting...
Will the Market Ration Corn Use?
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
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...
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...
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...





















