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Parley With The Enemy
Ben Franklin, in one of his more famous quotes, told his fellow patriots at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, We must all hang together,...
Speaking Up For Ag
From the nightly television news to video streams via the Internet, one needn't look far to find agriculture in the headlines. Unfortunately, the stories...
Back to Brazil
The largest country in South America, Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse. The country ranks as the world's top exporter of beef, broilers, soybeans,...
All-American Beef Battalion Honors Troops
Bill Broadie, Senior Vice Chairman of the All American Beef Battalion (AABB) still remembers the day he returned home from the Vietnam War....
NCBA's Young Producers Council
Denver—NCBA President Andy Groseta believes YPC is an opportunity build leadership qualities in the young people in the beef industry....
The Greening Of America WHAT'S THE BEEF?
America is getting at least in the minds of consumers concerned about the environment. From Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, to activists who condemn...
2008 NCBA Coverage
Highlights from the 2008 National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Convention & Tradeshow held Feb. 5-9 in Reno, NV...
Animal care meeting
Animal Care and Well-Being: Facts Not Fiction is the theme of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture's 2008 annual meeting, April 1-3, in Indianapolis,...
Holy Cows
Holy cows. That's what Greg Spradlin calls the 78 cows he has on 21 different farms in the northwest corner of Georgia. Each year when the calves from...
Livestock Diplomacy
In a mountainous region in Afghanistan, along the Pakistan border, fighting and drought had decimated the animal population. What was once a thriving...
Q&A with Lt. Col. Sam Barringer, DVM
Q How did this program come about? A The program is still ongoing, and we must recognize that there are 100+ people involved in this and I was just the...
The Man Who Would Be President
Paul Hitch had set his mind to become the next president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA). It was his dream, his goal, the culmination...
10 Hot Tips
Creating value in your calves Jim Lerwick with Lerwick Bros., a cattle and grain operation at Pine Bluffs, WY, says there are several areas where producers...
Desert Doer
It was Thursday, Dec. 6, and Andy Groseta was bouncing between phone calls in his office after returning from Tucson, AZ, where he'd addressed an international...
Come fly with us
There are two words that particularly stir the competitive anxiety of U.S. beef producers and two countries with seemingly inexhaustible natural resources,...
R-CALF stymied
Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF) added to its long list of courtroom setbacks in late August when the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed...
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:...
Proud Promoter
From the time she married South Dakota rancher Bob Adrian in 1957, Pat Adrian who grew up as a town kid has taken her role as a ranch wife and beef promoter...
Pfizer, Superior team up
Pfizer's SelectVAC preconditioning program has been named the preferred health program for calves sold through Superior Livestock Auction. Calves meeting...
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...
Support U.S. beef
Taking advantage of the patriotism surrounding the July 4 holiday, A&W restaurants launched Moove to American, a marketing campaign to promote consumption...
Alliance Numbers Grow - Consolidate
Consumer-based programs listed in the BEEF Alliance Yellow Pages reflect the overall evolution of industry structure. While the numbers flowing through...
Animal Rights Activities Still A Concern
Animal rights activists are completely committed to putting you out of business, says Kay Johnson, and they are working on many fronts to achieve their goal. ...
Next Wave Of Beef Value Cuts To Roll Out Next Year
A new line of Beef Value Cuts -- this time fabricated from the beef chuck roll -- is slated for a 2008 rollout, says the checkoff-funded Beef Innovations Group (BIG)....
BIF Recognizes Top Genetic Contributors
The Beef Improvement Federation (BIF), meeting in Colorado Springs, CO, this week, is commemorating the 40th anniversary of its founding. Among the presentations and festivities, BIF presented a number of awards. ...
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...






















