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Gearing Up Or Gearing Down?
By Amanda Nolz BEEF Intern
With skyrocketing production costs and tough consumer economic conditions, the beef industry is facing challenging times. But do those margin-squeezing...
Find your red flags
by Harlan Hughes contributing editor
Part IV in a series on the changing corn environment. The original renewable fuels standard (RFS) triggered the current expansion in ethanol production...
Hard To Manage
By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor
Trying to manage fuel costs in a feedyard is a bit like paying taxes. Your options are fairly limited. There's just not an easy fix for it, says Sam Stevenson,...
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"Slick” Gene Improves Cattle Heat Tolerance
Amanda Nolz
With the summer heat blazing down on cattle ranchers across the country, the discovery of a new way to improve heat tolerance in cattle is certainly good news....
Why Are Slaughter Weights High?
CME Daily Livestock Report
Given high corn costs, shouldn’t fed-cattle slaughter weights be coming down? You’d think so, say Steve Meyer and Len Steiner, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) ag economists, but the data show otherwise...
USDA Predicts Nation’s Second-Largest Corn Crop
P. Scott Shearer, Washington, D.C. correspondent
USDA's much-anticipated “Crop Report” indicates the U.S. could have the second-largest corn crop in history...
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...
