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Price forecasting part II
Ranching's economics are changing. Preliminary data suggest the cost of running a beef cowherd has increased 15-20% in the last two years. Altered production...
Feedback On The Shark Story
Regarding "The Great White Shark Goes Red" in the Jan. 4 edition of BEEF Cow-Calf Weekly, in golf terms, Greg Norman Australian Prime brand manager Russ Supplee seems to have shanked one...
Video Ads Are Planned For Grocery Carts
Digital advertising is coming to shopping carts. The Associated Press reports Microsoft spent four years working with Plano, TX-based MediaCart Holdings Inc. on a grocery cart-mounted console that helps shoppers find products in the store,...
When It Comes To Marketing, Timing Is Everything
Most U.S. beef producers manage their livestock around forage-driven production systems. And because beef producers mostly calve in the spring, they wean and market their calves in the fall. This ...
Price forecasting part 1
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...
Another record CAB year
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,...
I don't get it, but I understand it
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...
More High Times
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...
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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...
