A cowman’s response to the ebb and flow of the industry is entirely up to the individual – but a choice is imminent. That’s why Dusty Abney, cow-calf and stocker nutritionist for Cargill Animal Nutrition, called out a few of the areas where producers have had to adapt through the years: volatile markets and regulations for starters.
I’ve often wished for a guidebook – a map to carefully lead me around life’s potholes and avoid the dead ends altogether. But you and I both know it doesn’t work like that.
Adding value. Consumer confidence. Growing demand. Those are popular (and thus often overused) phrases, but they are central to what we do here at CAB.
Call it optimism or happiness or a light-hearted spring in your step….the term doesn’t matter, last week at the Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show you could feel it.
This week, we sighed a breath of relief. Our cargo had arrived at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday afternoon. Safe and sound, ready to be unpacked at the 2012 National Cattle Industry Convention.
My excitement for NCBA was elevated last week with the introduction of the official convention smart phone app.
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