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Effects of wintering stockers
Rate of gain during the winter stocker period impacts finishing performance and carcass quality, researchers from West Virginia, Virginia and South Carolina...
PINGING For Premiums
Remember those old WW II movies? The ones where U.S. Navy ships are trolling for enemy submarines and the only sound that cuts the tension-thick air is...
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....
Choosing The Stocker Business
Like the cattle they grow, this year's National Stocker Award finalists share some similarities. Namely, each adds value to mismanaged cattle, presenting...
Crabby Returns
Ron Banks doesn't have time to fix somebody else's mistakes. We grow cattle, explains the owner of Rendezvous Cattle. That's it. That's why he won't buy...
Making The Call
It all boils down to looking in the mirror, believes Dale Blasi, a Kansas State University stocker cattle specialist. He's talking about cow-calf producers...
Benchmarks for the ethanol era
Having conducted Integrated Resource Management (IRM) cash-flow analyses for individual ranchers for 20+ years, I fully understand a ranch must cash flow...
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...
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...
