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"Slick” Gene Improves Cattle Heat Tolerance
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?
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
USDA's much-anticipated “Crop Report” indicates the U.S. could have the second-largest corn crop in history...
USDA Forecasts 2% Less Alfalfa
Sufficient rainfall in much of the country will result in slightly higher average alfalfa yields than harvested last year, USDA predicts. But the yield gain won’t offset a 4% drop in acreage...
Strong Worldwide Food & Ag Growth Predicted
Spurred by income and population growth, freer trade and globalization, don’t expect a letup in demand for the “4 Fs” – food, fuel, feed and fiber – that underpin an ongoing worldwide commodity boom...
Record Farm-Production Expenditures
According to USDA, the rising cost of fuel and other products helped drive U.S. farm-production expenditures to a record $260 billion in 2007...
Profitable Ranching Is Focus Of Sept. 2 Webinar
“Filthy Rich & Dirt Poor: Why Ranching Isn't Profitable and What To Do About It” is the focus of a Ranch Management Consultants (RMC) webinar set for Sept. 2 at 6 p.m MDT...
Price Drops Continue For Gasoline & Diesel
The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline slid 7.1¢/gal. to hit $3.809 for the week ending Aug. 11. It was the fifth-straight weekly drop, and a cumulative loss of 30.5¢ from the all-time high ...
Personnel Management Course Set
A two-day personnel management conference, Sept. 9-10 in Amarillo, TX, will help managers learn to deal with the challenges of human resources...
New Food Bills Introduced To U.S. Senate
Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Barack Obama (D-IL) have introduced bills aimed at addressing weaknesses exposed by recent Salmonella saintpaul outbreaks in produce...
Missouri Sets Beginners Grazing School, Sept. 24-26
A Beginners Grazing School set for Sept. 24-26 at the University of Missouri (MU) research farm in Linn County will cover basics of rotational grazing. The school includes both classroom sessions and pasture exercises...
McCain Wallops Obama In Minnesota Farm Country
The Minnesota Farm Bureau Public Policy Team conducted a straw poll for the Presidential race last week at the Farm Bureau tent at Farmfest in Redwood County, MN. The results showed ...
Light Test-Weight Barley Can Be Useful Feed
Cattle producers may be able to use lower test-weight barley as feed, Greg Lardy, North Dakota State University Extension beef cattle specialist, says...
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Can You Dig It?
There are more living creatures in a shovel-full of dirt than human beings on the planet, yet more is known about the dark side of the moon than about soil...
Angus Fall Cattle Evaluation Includes New Carcass EPDs
The American Angus Association’s (AAA) fall 2008 national cattle evaluation results are now available at www.angus.org. The semiannual analysis contains information submitted by nearly 9,800 Angus breeders ...
Plum Island Replacment Facility Headed To Mississippi?
Ever since the department of Homeland Security announced its intentions to create a new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility and move it from Plum Island in New York, there’s been a lot of discussion about where to locate it...
Losing Is Often The Next Best Thing To Winning
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week denied the petition filed by the State of Texas to reduce the Renewable Fuels Standard for ethanol. While some were dismayed at EPA’s logic in stating...
Nebraska Beef, Ltd Expands E. Coli Recall
The new total for Omaha-based Nebraska Beef Ltd.’s product recall is 1.36 million lbs., up from the 1.2 million lbs. originally announced Aug. 8. The wording being used on this Class I recall – such as “insufficient precautions” and “insanitary conditions” – can’t be good for the firm’s longterm business prospects...
Will Beef Demand Withstand The Election?
It could be argued that the current recession is a media creation, but the latest round of economic indicators were not positive...
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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...
