That’s probably why I always get excited for our Feeding Quality Forum, a meeting we (along with Pfizer, Feedlot Magazine and Purina-Land O’Lakes) have been hosting for six years.
Easy ways to make conversation with anybody in agriculture: 1-Talk weather. 2-Talk prices.
It seems everybody knows those rules, so when I’m traveling and visit with fellow ag business folks the conversation usually starts out on one of those two notes.
Myth: If the USDA number for black-hided (A-stamped) cattle in the harvest mix is 62.9% and bull surveys show more than 70% Angus bull usage, then somebody’s doing some bad math.
A couple weeks ago I told you how Rich Blair still remembers his first Prime premium—it was a big deal. It’d never happened before. He’s probably not the only cattleman in that category. Heck, the national average for Prime is running at 3%, and we’re talking about how high that number is compared to just […]
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