Rations may change, business models won’t
Date: Oct 09 2012
| Big Thinkers & BlogYou know it’s an unusual year when the silage pile is so tall that it interferes with the internet connection.
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Fewer cattle, more pressure
Date: Oct 05 2012
| Cattle Feeding & Cattle Markets & Feeding Quality Forum & News ReleaseGetting cattle bought right. That’s normally a feeder’s first challenge, but today it’s just plain getting cattle.
“The total size of the cattle industry has been shrinking, and shrinking rather abruptly for the last couple of years,” said Mike Sands, Informa Economics vice president.
The kind you want to be part of
Date: Oct 05 2012
| About the brand & BlogNamed after CAB’s first CEO (Mick Colvin), the scholarship looks to both reward and encourage high-achieving students involved in the beef industry.
Uniform higher quality
Date: Oct 01 2012
| Cattle Markets & News ReleaseEvery auction barn study says the larger the group and the more uniform the cattle, the higher the premiums. Work from Arkansas to North Dakota proves it’s true on individual lots, but what of that logic when it’s applied to the nation’s cowherd?
Rock on
Date: Sep 28 2012
| About the brand & BlogYou were the rock stars at last week’s Certified Angus Beef annual conference. Yes, you, the American cattleman.
What costs more than buying hay?
Date: Sep 20 2012
| Big Thinkers & BlogSome costs of the drought are easy to calculate. Like the extra hay that ranchers Joe and Brenda Anderjaska are going to buy this year.
Light at the end
Date: Sep 13 2012
| Feeding Quality Forum & News ReleaseDon’t expect corn values to get dramatically lower….this year.
Feeding Quality Forum attendees were probably not surprised to hear Dan Basse, Ag Resource Company, say that pricing inputs would be their top challenge in the last quarter of 2012. But the fact that those costs could normalize in the latter part of next year surely piqued their interest.
Gimme the good news!
Date: Sep 12 2012
| Blog & Feeding Quality ForumOur Feeding Quality Forum the week before last, was full of some kind of gloomy news for cattle feeders, but I inherited optimism.
Angus to Limousin=Apples to oranges
Date: Sep 09 2012
| Blog & EPDsThey know Angus EPDs (expected progeny differences) like nobody’s business. Er, nobody else’s business.
Feeding forum finds way forward
Date: Sep 06 2012
| Feeding Quality Forum & News ReleaseFrom drought and high feed prices to the shrinking cowherd and beef demand, there’s been a lot weighing on cattle feeders’ minds lately.
Producers gathered at last week’s Feeding Quality Forum in Grand Island, Neb., and Amarillo, Texas, to discuss these topics and get ideas for dealing with the ongoing industry challenges