Beef yield grade opportunities detailed
Date: Oct 28 2016
Feeding Quality Forum & ResearchQuality grades have been in effect for nearly a century, but yield grades have been required in the United States for more than 50 years.
Category: Feeding Quality Forum
The matching game
Date: Sep 30 2016
Early Weaning & Feeding Quality Forum & Lactation & News Release & Premium Potential & ResearchCattle have changed. If your management hasn’t, animal scientist Robbi Pritchard suggests you take a look to be sure it’s still relevant. The South Dakota State University emeritus professor addressed cattle feeders and allied industry at the Feeding Quality Forum in August.
Face the pace of change
Date: Sep 22 2016
Cattle Markets & Feeding Quality Forum & News ReleaseWe are used to slow change in the cattle business. After decades at that pace, however, the North American cattle and beef industries are undergoing a rapid transition. “Farming and food production in total are no longer local industries,” said Pete Anderson, Midwest PMS research director.
Ag Outlook: Not so good, not all bad
Date: Sep 09 2016
Cattle Markets & Feeding Quality Forum & News Release“Who is going to flinch first?” Dan Basse, president of AgResource Co., said that’s the main question he and his team ponder when looking at this “plateau” phase in the ag markets.
Feeding Quality Forum challenges norms
Date: Sep 01 2016
EPDs & Feeding Quality Forum & News ReleaseIf you think you have the cattle feeding business all figured out, you’re probably mistaken. That’s according to speakers at the Feeding Quality Forum in Grand Island, Neb., and Amarillo, Texas, last week. The experts addressed what they “used to know” that’s no longer so.
You can think that, but you’d be wrong
Date: Aug 26 2016
Black Ink & Blog & Feeding Quality ForumI’ve been to all but one of the forums, which we’ve held with allied industry partners since 2006, and the overwhelming summary is LOTS of good information.
Corah honored by Feeding Quality Forum
Date: Aug 04 2016
Big Thinkers & Feeding Quality Forum & News ReleaseSeven years ago when Larry Corah suggested adding a people element to the Feeding Quality Forum (FQF) he helped launch in 2006, he certainly didn’t expect to be a recipient of the Industry Achievement Award one day.
World economic woes hit home
Date: Aug 27 2015
Cattle Markets & Feeding Quality Forum & News ReleaseIf you don’t believe the global factors affecting the U.S. cattle market are numerous and complicated, you probably haven’t heard Dan Basse, president of Ag Resource Company, give an economic outlook. By 2040, Japan’s population will drop by 25.3 million people. Today, the Black Sea region exports 34% of the world’s wheat. Brazil’s currency, the real, has been weak for several years versus the U.S. dollar.
Proceed with caution
Date: Aug 21 2015
Cattle Markets & Feeding Quality Forum & News ReleaseIn a cyclical business, when you’re riding the good times, it probably means you’re not far from the bad ones. So it is with the cattle business, said Dan Basse, president of Ag Resource Company, as he kicked off the Feeding Quality Forum in La Vista, Neb., and Garden City, Kan., this week. “It’s not like the mid-1980s, with land values collapsing. It’s more like a slow bleed,” Basse said of the general “downturn” in agricultural commodities. Ag equipment sales have slowed, land prices are going down and grain trade has softened as the dollar strengthened.
Feed prices down, risk ever apparent
Date: Aug 22 2014
Feeding Quality Forum & News ReleaseDan Basse, president of AgResource Company, has headlined the Feeding Quality Forum for the past six or seven years.