Category: Feeding Quality Forum

Hard work, luck and smarts

Date: Sep 18 2018

Sometimes it’s easy to see where a person is and forget where they’ve been. It’s easy to stare down the success in the here-and-now, without even a glance at their past. When I learned Gerald Timmerman won our Feeding Quality Forum Industry Achievement Award, I knew the family in generalities.

Seek answers for better beef

Date: Sep 09 2018

Presenters at the Feeding Quality Forum, August 28 to 29 in Sioux City, Iowa, encouraged questioning the routine. More than 200 took in the two-day meetings, where they got practical tips to use now as well as the “10,000-foot view” to spur thought, said Justin Sexten, director of supply development for Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB).

Timmerman to receive Feeding Quality Forum honors

Date: Aug 17 2018

Each week, Nebraska cattleman Gerald Timmerman would flip open the Sunday Omaha World- Herald to scan the want ads… “just in case.”

Add value by culling, feeding

Date: Oct 17 2017

Weaning and “preg checking” tell us how successful our last two breeding seasons were. While many cow herd operators enjoy calving as a time to see the fruits of their labor, I prefer weaning, when management and genetic selection come together in one package. If you fell short in meeting any challenge like keeping pastures vegetative or replacement heifers without records, those effects are in full view when calves cross the scale at weaning.

In disguise

Date: Sep 29 2017

It’s been a month since the Feeding Quality Forum meetings we co-sponsor and maybe that’s part of the reason that I’m just now blogging about it.

Price Discovery in the premium era

Date: Sep 21 2017

Chances are, the beef business isn’t going to reverse its ways, said Iowa cattleman Ed Greiman, during the Feeding Quality Forum in August.

Ag prospects looking up

Date: Sep 11 2017

It might not feel like a quick ascent, but agriculture will climb out of the slump affecting nearly all sectors in recent years.

Finding profit

Date: Sep 05 2017

Opportunity. It’s there, but you may have to look a little harder for it.

That’s what this year’s Feeding Quality Forum attendees learned.

Borck honored for beef industry success

Date: Aug 22 2017

Lee Borck, Manhattan, Kan., has known hard times and boom, seen the impact on others as well as his own enterprises.

News Release: Feeding Quality forums set for late August

Date: Jul 19 2017