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A legend passes
Visionary cattle-genetics leader Roy Wallace passed away Jan. 20 while in Denver attending the National Western Stock Show. He was 63...
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...
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...
Let the market work
In regard to Tom Peters' letter, Accept change and get on with it (page 8, January BEEF), what the ethanol issue comes down to is theft by policy. And...
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...
Industry loses two legends
A pair of industry legends passed away recently. W.D. Farr, 97, patriarch of an internationally known family cattle-feeding enterprise recognized for...
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...
