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Tyson shakeup

Feb 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Dick Bond, president and CEO of Tyson Foods Inc. for the past three years, announced his immediate retirement early last month. Leland Tollett, Tyson...

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Cow-Calf

Quest For Quality

By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

When you come to a fork in the road, observed the legendary Yogi Berra, take it. Reeves and Betsy Brown can appreciate that advice, because that's exactly...

2008 grass cattle planning prices

by Harlan Hughes contributing editor

After 30 years of government-supported and stabilized corn markets, the new biofuels era features no government- or farmer-held corn reserves and highly...

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Feedlot

Playing The Hand

By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

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...

Violative residues

by Clint Peck contributing editor

The elimination of violative residues in beef is one of the most important elements facing ranchers and cattle feeders in producing safe food products....

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Processing

JBS, From a Small Butcher Shop in Brazil to an Global Meat Processor

Feb 24, 2009 11:20 AM, Source: Muriel Elizabeth Hayes, Argentina

At the tender age of 18, when other teenagers dream about getting a car, Wesley Batista was handed a meat-packing plant to manage. ...

Cattle producers reminded of new FDA carcass disposal rule

Feb 17, 2009 12:35 PM, Source: Midwest AgNet

Minnesota agriculture officials are reminding cattle producers of a new rendering regulation that goes into affect this spring that could affect their ability to dispose of dead cattle....

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Retail

The Taste Of Protein

By Diana Barto

Umami. It's pronounced and it's such a mysterious sounding word that you might think it refers to an ethnic trend or a spiritual practice in a faraway...

Video Ads Are Planned For Grocery Carts

Associated Press

Digital advertising is coming to shopping carts. The Associated Press reports Microsoft spent four years working with Plano, TX-based MediaCart Holdings Inc. on a grocery cart-mounted console that helps shoppers find products in the store,...

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Seedstock

Continuing Commitment

By Kindra Gordon

The challenge to BIF is to remain dynamic and move into the 21st century with a program attuned to the technology of that era. Embryo transfer, cloning...

Forty Years of Foresight

By Kindra Gordon

January 1967 marked an important beginning for the beef industry. Cattle producers and researchers gathered in Denver for a meeting during the National...

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Stocker

Use Target Grazing To Take Aim At Invasive Weeds

Kindra Gordon for the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative

There's a new buzzword out West when it comes to grazing --targeted grazing...

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From Our Columnists

Wes Ishmael

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...

Business Archive

Harlan Hughes

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...

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Mike Apley

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...

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