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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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Ranch Profiles
Flexibility Is Everything
Pendergrass Cattle CompanyNational Stocker Award Winner and Backgrounding Division Winner Too much death loss, too many sick cattle, too much wear and...
Self-Service
Howard RanchesFall/Winter Division Winner A cow will eat grass all summer long and gain 300 lbs. Feed her all winter and she'll lose 300 lbs., says Jim...
New old ways
S&M Cattle CompanySummer Division Winner These sprawling plains in southeast Colorado can be barren, tough country. With just a little moisture, though,...
Great Ranches of the West
In Great Ranches of the West, author and photographer Jim Keen provides a beautiful chronicling of 30 family-owned and -run ranches in the 17 western...
10 Cost Cutters
With escalating costs facing all segments of the beef industry, trimming costs is on everyone's mind. But Nebraskan Jay Wolf of Wagonhammer Cattle Co....
Matching Consumer To Rancher
It's not as easy as finding a niche market and sticking with it, explains Mary Forman, who co-founded Country Natural Beef (CNB) with her husband, Lowell....
Tough & On Top
After running a South Texas ranch for 40 years, Bill Crain might know a thing or two about producing quality calves and marketing them at the right time....
2001 NCBA President Lynn Cornwell Passes
Glasgow, MT rancher and 2001 National Cattlemen’s Beef Association president Lynn Cornwell died June 5 of an aortic aneurysm. He was 56. He is survived by his wife Debby, and their four children...
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...
