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Ethanol
Playing The Hand
As a cattle feeder, observes Alan Janzen, I have to look at what I'm faced with; what is the practical issue here? It's always been thus in a business...
Ethanol Speed Bump
Usage mandates will drive the ethanol industry, even though profit margins have been narrow, says James Mintert, Kansas State University agricultural...
Reader's Viewpoint: No voice, no power
In response to Troy Marshall's article on accepting ethanol (February 2008, Should we just accept and adapt?), I absolutely agree. While I know...
Should we just accept and adapt?
Accept and adapt has certainly been the rallying cry of leading management gurus regarding the government-created ethanol boom. These experts have a valid...
Ethanol Article Provided Good Perspective
I found Troy Marshall's Jan. 11 article, "Should We Just Accept And Adapt To Ethanol?" a well-written commentary that provides an objective approach from a perspective outside the Corn Belt...
Co-Product Nutrition Conference Set
If you want leading-edge research on how ethanol co-products work in cattle diets, mark your calendar for the High Plains Biofuels Co-Product Nutrition Conference, Feb. 20 at the Plaza Hotel in Garden City, KS...
What is an ethanol cowherd?
Why would success strategies in a business predicated upon cheap feed and cheap energy work when the opposite is true? That's a query John Lawrence, livestock...
A sunrise or a sunset?
In comparison to the recent 40-year period of relative stability in the price of the major agriculture commodities, 2007 has seemed like a ride on a giant...
Ethanol Changes EVERYTHING
As recently as six months ago, or this morning, the immediate and visible changes wrought by subsidized ethanol production seemed much like those that...
Accept change and get on with it
I'm disturbed by all the complaining today particularly by cattlemen regarding grain-based ethanol. As a consulting nutritionist with 400,000 cattle under...
Competing with the Big Boys
Gerald Scheckel the farmer added more corn acres this year. An ethanol-fueled price near $4 will do that for a Midwest grower with about 5,000 tillable...
Ethanol subsidies unnecessary, study finds
An Economic Perspective, a study by Thomas Elam of FarmEcon.com, indicates the ethanol industry no longer needs a high level of federal support. Elam...
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...
Organizations Voice Opposition To Increased RFS
Various organizations and companies sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urging her to oppose any effort to increase the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) for ethanol...
Distiller's Grains Usage
Like it or not, distiller's grains will figure into feedyard rations for the foreseeable future. To learn more about how the rapid growth in ethanol production...
Grab Your Partner
Expect the formation of inter-sector alliances to get a boost over the next few years, says Kansas City economist Bill Helming. Like kids scrambling when...
Can You Plan Around The Oil/Ethanol Bubbles?
Everyone realizes the recent surge in oil prices has been largely speculation-based, and ethanol even more so. What could be more speculative than a product that can't compete without huge government subsidies, and ...
Ethanol's Effects On Cattlemen Offers Many Unknowns
What effect will the rush to ethanol have on cattlemen? There are a lot more questions than answers. ...
Life in an ethanol world
Ethanol is changing everything in American agriculture, economist Richard Brock tells BEEF. I've never seen such volatility. It's unbelievable, says the...
Anybody's Guess
It's pretty hard to have a conversation nowadays that doesn't turn, sooner or later and usually sooner, toward ethanol. Questions abound. Corn prices?...
Gone Forever?
Say all you want about historically high cattle prices, the longest sustained period of cow-calf profitability on record, robust consumer beef demand...
Ethanol Impacts Will Continue For Quite Some Time
It's almost mind-boggling to contemplate that up to 40% of this year's corn crop could be used in ethanol production. The demand for ethanol and its financial incentives are only growing as ...
Study Says Ethanol Increasing Food Prices
A study released this week estimates that increased corn prices "driven by rapidly expanding" U.S. ethanol production have increased U.S. retail food prices by $14 billion annually...
Expect Every Acre Of Corn That Weather Will Allow
After USDA's recent report indicated that more acres were going to be planted to corn than any time in the last 60 years, the corn market...
Ethanol, Corn Will Weigh On Livestock Industry
Future ethanol production and demand for distiller's grains will lead to lower cattle prices and higher consumer meat prices, David Anderson, a Texas Cooperative Extension economist, told attendees of the 2007 Texas Ag Forum in Austin recently...
From Our Columnists
Even With High Prices, Be Sure To Weigh The Return
Depending on which side of the biscuit you butter, these are fixing to be halcyon days in the cow-calf business. At least they are judging by the chatter you hear...
Key Economic Opportunities In Calf Marketing
My last series of articles focused on the economic challenges occurring in the beef-cow sector since the start of the biofuels era. This month, I’ll focus on the key economic opportunities...
Nitrate Accumulation In Plants Is A Matter Of Many Factors
Drought has made it a very rough year for many herds in the U.S. In the midst of this scramble for forage in drought areas, we need to be careful about where feeds originate...
