Posts by Miranda Reiman :

Export expectations

Date: Dec 20 2013

CattleFax predicts beef exports will reach 18% of all production by 2020. Of course that’s good news for any producer because of the value it adds.

Banishing bad attitudes

Date: Dec 18 2013

One of our Black Ink Basics Tech Sheets spells out a $57.69/head grid advantage for docile cattle compared to nervous counterparts.

Expectations

Date: Dec 07 2013

Did somebody say “price-value relationship”?

It all boils down to: It’s a great time to be in the cattle business, but much is expected of you.

Quality plans

Date: Dec 05 2013

I sometimes joke that I don’t have to know that much, I just have to know which smart people to interview.

Big possibilities

Date: Nov 21 2013

That is unless you’re talking to two of our former interns, both ag communications graduates from Kansas State University.

Learning on the job

Date: Nov 14 2013

When Julie Vrazel stepped out at the 22,000-head Dumas Feedyard as our industry information intern in 2010, she knew she was out of her element.

Throwback Thursday, Intern Edition

Date: Nov 07 2013

We’ve had some great ones at Certified Angus Beef, and started to wonder, “Where are they now?”

Competing with quality

Date: Sep 24 2013

From the bright lights and shining hardwood of a basketball court to the cedar shavings of an auction ring, if there’s one ideal Pat Goggins believes in, it’s competition. Growing up the youngest of six boys born to sharecroppers can do that. It could come from his love of athletics or his early start as one of the most sought-after purebred auctioneers in the country, but whatever gave him that drive, the result is somewhat of an empire around a Billings, Mont., base. At the center is the Vermilion Ranch, where adding value to customer cattle helped earn the 2013 Seedstock Commitment to Excellence Award at the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand annual conference in Palm Desert, Calif., Sept. 18-20.

More than business

Date: Sep 24 2013

Nobody likes to lose a customer, but to see a cattle feeder get emotional over the thought of a ranching client having to sell out… that’s when you know his heart is really in the business. Terry Beller, of Lindsay, Neb., can tell you the last time the Sandhills and points west received a measureable rain. It matters to his bottom line, certainly, but the owner-manager of the 6,000-head Beller Feedlot talks about ranchers dealing with drought as if one of his own children were facing a major obstacle.

Filling pens to create supply

Date: Sep 24 2013

No one is automatically insulated from the effects of a shrinking national cowherd, but Kuner Feedlot, one of 12 in the JBS Five Rivers Cattle Feeders group with 1.6 million annual marketings, goes for proactive rather than reactive ways. The management team’s unique approach caught the attention of the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand, which named the Colorado yard Progressive Feedlot of the Year at the CAB annual conference in Palm Desert, Calif., on Sept. 18-20.