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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...
Know Your Strengths
When Shawn Mercer took over management of his grandparents' farming and cattle operation 15 years ago, he'd have given his eye teeth for a blueprint he could apply to the cattle business in general, and the stocker business specifically. After his grandfather died, Mercer and wife Katie struggled to figure out how to make the farm pay its way for another generation....
Cactus Feeders & Tyson Team Up In Argentina
Cactus Argentina has all the look and feel of a Texas Panhandle feedyard. After all, Cactus Feeders of Amarillo, TX, has worked since 1999 to introduce Texas-style grain finishing to South America....
Fire & Ice
Jeff Haley looks at the tiny sprigs of green poking up through the sandy earth and smiles. Big. He has good reason to. A year ago, he stood near this spot while despair gripped his guts and tore at his heart...
Selling Beef Not Cattle
What's a small eastern Washington rancher to do if he's not satisfied with what he gets for his calves? Some keep doing what they've been doing, and complain about it...
Meet Incoming NCBA President John Queen
From Bolls To Beef
Ryan Metcalf and Winslow Goins got some funny looks from neighbors when they started converting Cool Spring Plantation from cotton to forages. Our operation...
Good Stewards
Environmental stewardship has long been a tradition of America's cattlemen. For the past 16 years, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) has...
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...
