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Violative residues
The elimination of violative residues in beef is one of the most important elements facing ranchers and cattle feeders in producing safe food products....
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...
Reality Check
A survey of consulting nutritionists reveals emerging trends and concerns of feedyard managers...
Beyond The Pond
If you manage a feedyard, you manage runoff. Historically, a retention pond that captures and holds runoff from feedyard pens has been the way managers...
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...
Talking The Talk
Isaias Delgado walks into the processing barn at Garden City Feedyard and smiles. He's in his element, and he's among friends. The processing crew looks...
There's Only One Cure To Excess Feeding Capacity
Talk to almost any cattle feeder for very long and he'll express dismay at the cost of feeder cattle and calves. Despite a fed market averaging...
A Matter Of Size
Should you pick a small feedyard over a large one to obtain the best quality-grading carcass? If you consider summarized data compiled by Certified Angus...
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...
