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It's back to the future for JBS 

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.Ecclesiastes...

When Will We Have An Answer On JBS?  

That was the question on most minds during the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) meeting this week in Colorado Springs. However, Douglas Ross...

Record-High U.S. Red Meat Production In April 

The National Ag Statistics Service reported record-high U.S. red meat production in April, totaling 4.30 billion lbs., an increase of 14% over the 3.75 billion lbs. produced in April 2007...

More Questions 

The plant needs to shoulder the blame, but responsibility also resides with whoever decided to put those cattle on the truck and send them to the plant,...

Getting Better 

Manage. Monitor. Market. That's the best advice Dan Hale gives producers eager to enhance the quality and value of culled cows and bulls they send to...

Lessons in consolidation 

You likely cringed upon first hearing last month that Brazil-based JBS S.A. (JBS) acquired National Beef and Smithfield Beef Group (SBG) the nation's...

California Nightmare 

The tentacles of the largest beef recall in history – 143,383,823 lbs. – have reached all across the country. If the surreptitious video of exhausted and disabled dairy cattle being tortured...

Interstate shipment 

The House farm bill provision that would allow for the interstate shipment of state-inspected meat has met objections in the Senate....

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From Our Columnists

Jim Gerrish

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...

Jim Gerrish Archive

Harlan Hughes

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...

Harlan Hughes Archive

Mark Hilton

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...

Vet's Opinion Archive

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