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The plant needs to shoulder the blame, but responsibility also resides with whoever decided to put those cattle on the truck and send them to the plant,...
Getting Better
Manage. Monitor. Market. That's the best advice Dan Hale gives producers eager to enhance the quality and value of culled cows and bulls they send to...
Lessons in consolidation
You likely cringed upon first hearing last month that Brazil-based JBS S.A. (JBS) acquired National Beef and Smithfield Beef Group (SBG) the nation's...
California Nightmare
The tentacles of the largest beef recall in history – 143,383,823 lbs. – have reached all across the country. If the surreptitious video of exhausted and disabled dairy cattle being tortured...
Interstate shipment
The House farm bill provision that would allow for the interstate shipment of state-inspected meat has met objections in the Senate....
LESSONS Hard Learned
Used to be, if you wanted to make significant genetic improvement in your herd, you needed to focus on identifying and culling the bottom 20% of your...
Court Upholds Horse Slaughter Ban
The 7th U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago last Friday upheld an Illinois state law that bans the slaughter of horses for human consumption, likely forcing the closure...
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...
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...
