Care about your cows
Date: Apr 15 2013
| Blog & StockmanshipPosts by Steve Suther :
Adding Angus by scientific method
Date: Mar 28 2013
| Big Thinkers & BlogChuck Backus is one of my heroes. This Arizona rancher is a PhD nuclear engineer who began in the 1960s working with Westinghouse on NASA’s manned mission to Mars.
Calving great expectations
Date: Feb 13 2013
| Blog & Calving & StockmanshipChecking heifers Monday night, I wondered how deep I’ll have to cull–at least five of these 25 won’t get to graze the cool-season pastures.
Beef’s a trip Day 16: Further processors
Date: Nov 16 2012
| Blog & Consumer ConnectionWhether it’s the next craze or a better way to add value with an old favorite, you can bet the array of partners in the further processing business will keep finding new pathways that bring in more consumers
Beef’s a trip, Day 13: The target
Date: Nov 13 2012
| Blog & Grid Marketing & Targeting the BrandToday, it’s time to look at one component of most grids that predates those grids and helped launch the whole idea of value-based marketing.
Beef’s a trip day 4: The cowherd’s purpose
Date: Nov 04 2012
| BlogYesterday, Miranda told us about some Angus seedstock producers as representatives of the Certified Angus Beef brand’s stockholders. Now here are a few words from my perspective as a commercial producer who learned some lessons from the school of hard knocks. There used to be twice as many of us, what USDA calls “farms with […]
Wild cards: Divide and conquer
Date: Oct 19 2012
| Blog & StockmanshipCrossbred pressure?
Date: Oct 07 2012
| Blog & BreedingMaybe it’s time to go back to blindness on individual quality and figure they are all acceptable on average; I can just aim for more pounds.
Exactly what feedyards want
Date: Oct 04 2012
| Cattle Feeding & News Release & Post WeaningSome cattle grow like weeds; some hit the high-grade targets. Some do both, some neither. That’s the way it goes in the world of commodity cattle. But cattle can be so much more, adding profit throughout the supply chain.
Beef: bigger and bigger
Date: Sep 26 2012
| Grid Marketing & News ReleaseCattle feeders don’t like $7 or $8 corn, but they know what to do at those higher prices. Most of them feed cattle longer to heavier weights and sort them to market on a grid.
Maybe not all cattle feeders see it that way, but in the big picture, that’s what is happening, says Shawn Walter, president of Professional Cattle Consultants (PCC). He presented “How big can we go?” at last month’s Feeding Quality Forum in Grand Island, Neb., and Amarillo, Texas.