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Weather, Corn Temporarily Shifting Placements
Among feedyards with 1,000+-head capacities, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska -- in that order -- traditionally top the states in feeding numbers, writes Darrell Mark, University of Nebraska economist...
Riding to the Rescue
Sick-cattle management begins in the home pen — not in the hospital pen. And it's in the home pen where pen riders can create trust in cattle, resulting in the ability to identify...
Better Times Ahead For The Feeding Industry?
Cattle on Feed Smashes Record
On Feed Report -- Good News or Bad News?
Steamed By Flaking
Cattle feeders can use futures and options to against high or low corn, feeder cattle or fed-cattle markets. But when costs increase dramatically on the...
Full-Circle Feeding
With some 6,300 tons of manure produced daily in nearby feedyards, Hereford, TX, sometimes can appreciate the smell of money only so much. But the Beef...
Fitting DDGs into feeding rations
The increasing availability of dried distillers grains (DDGs), a feed-grain by-product resulting from grain conversion into ethanol, begs the question...
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...
