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From Steve Kay, editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly. Catch a roundup of each week’s cattle-market activity every Friday afternoon! View the market review now!
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The Ever-Changing Retail Meat Case
The 2007 National Meat Case Study looked at more than 123,000 packages in 121 stores in 48 different markets, comparing its findings with those of a similar study in 2004....
Interstate shipment
The House farm bill provision that would allow for the interstate shipment of state-inspected meat has met objections in the Senate....
Beef-Checkoff Initiatives Approved On Tighter Budget
The Beef Promotion Operating Committee (BPOC) this week funded a total of 42 program proposals with beef-checkoff dollars for Fiscal 2008....
Checkoff survey
Among U.S. beef producers, 70% approve of the beef checkoff program. That's according to a survey of 1,225 beef and dairy producers commissioned by the...
Identify the market, then add value
For all the opportunities that come with value-added markets, they can be the tail wagging the proverbial fleabag if you lose sight of the core product...
Use The Marketing Gold Your Calving Book Offers
Given the intensity and desire expressed by cattle producers for acquiring calving books each year, the calving book obviously is a critical part of many beef operations...
National ID Is The Tale Of A Two-Tiered Market
It struck me this week just how much dichotomy we're seeing in the beef industry over the whole question of national livestock ID. This week, the American Angus Association announced ...
Angus Makes News With USDA, Tyson & Pfizer
It was a big week for announcements from the American Angus Association (AAA). In just the past week, the world's largest cattle registry announced the following:...
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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...
