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Industry News
Australia Drought Leads To Market Collapse, Cattle Being Put Down
published: May 23rd 2013 by: Peter Lewis source: PM
TIM PALMER: Graziers from around the country came together today for a cattle industry crisis meeting in north-west Queensland. Hundreds of people were in Richmond, east of Mount Isa, to discuss issues including the future of live exports, the high Australian dollar and rising industry debt levels....
Production
Beef Cattle Dynamics-Weather, Corn, Prices
published: May 22nd 2013 by: Glynn T. Tonsor, Associate Professor, De source: K State University
Crop and livestock producers alike are understandably anxious for some resolution of weather uncertainty with particular current focus on corn planting. Last week, the USDA released information that is also heavily weather influenced and of elevated cattle producer interest....
Industry News
K State Receives Multi Partnership Grant For Climate/Food Research
published: May 21st 2013 source: K State Extension
Drought, flooding, extreme heat, subzero temperatures: All of these climatic events and more in Kansas can threaten the supply and affordability of the nation's beef supply. It's hard to do much about the weather, but a team of Kansas State University scientists will be trying to find solutions so cattlemen can better adapt to any future climate extremes in their grazing operations....
Industry News
Ag Research Benefits Everyone
published: May 20th 2013 source: KTIC
This year marks 151 years since the U.S. Department of Agriculture was created. Since then - agriculture has evolved in every aspect - yet fewer people have firsthand knowledge of agriculture. USDA Chief Scientist Catherine Woteki says agricultural research is extremely important as it provides multiple benefits for ag producers and consumers - especially when it comes to the U....
Industry News
Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course Set For August 5-7
published: May 17th 2013 by: Blair Fannin source: Texas AgriLife
The 59th Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course is scheduled August 5-7 at Texas A&M University in College Station. “A lot of producers are wanting to know how long this current market cycle will last and how to go about herd expansion strategies in the future,” said Dr....
Industry News
House Ag Committee Passes Farm Bill
published: May 16th 2013 source: KTIC
The House Ag Committee wasn't able to finish its farm bill markup quite as quickly as its Senate counterpart did on Tuesday. Still - Chairman Frank Lucas was pleased with the progress made when the committee had to break Wednesday afternoon for a Republican meeting and votes - and expressed confidence they would finish their work Wednesday night....
Marketing
Cow Slaughter Numbers Up From A Year Ago
published: May 14th 2013 by: Dr. Tom Troxel/Dr. Michael L. Looper source: University of Arkansas Extension
Coming into this year, the expectation was for U.S. cow slaughter to trend lower, with some forecasts calling for a double digit decline in U.S. cow slaughter rates. After all, record high cattle prices, a shrinking cow herd and lower calf numbers and improving cow-calf profitability were expected to provide an incentive to limit the number of female bovines coming to market and possibly encourage some heifer retention....
Feed & Nutrition
Creep Feeding Considerations
published: May 13th 2013 by: Janna Kincheloe source: IGrow, South Dakota Extension
Calf growth rate and weaning weight are important benchmarks in determining performance and profitability of cow/calf enterprises. Weaning weight is dependent on a variety of factors, including calf health, genetic potential, milk production of the dam, and age at weaning....
Industry News
Superior Sells To National Livestock
published: May 11th 2013 source: Superior Livestock
Oklahoma City, OK May 10, 2013 -- National Livestock Credit is pleased to announce the purchase of Superior Livestock Auction, Inc. National Livestock and cattlemen from several states have formed a limited partnership to acquire Superior....
Industry News
Senate Ag Committee Releases Draft Of Proposed Farm Bill
published: May 10th 2013 source: KTIC
The official committee print of the 2013 Farm Bill is now available on the Senate Agriculture Committee website. According to Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow - the bipartisan 2013 Farm Bill represents the most significant reform of American agriculture policy in decades....
Industry News
Understanding why convenience traits are important and desired
published: May 9th 2013 by: David Kirkpatrick
Convenience traits are those cattle traits that contribute directly to savings in time, facilities, drugs and labor in a cow-calf enterprise. Some examples of these traits would be temperament, polledness, structural and udder soundness, disease and pest resistance, heat tolerance, doing or fleshing ability, mothering ability and calving ease....
Columnists
Just Your Standard Bull
published: May 9th 2013 by: Michael Sturgess
The Annual Forage Program is here! On Thursday, April 25th, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) announ-ced a new program to insure summer and winter annual crops for grazing, haying, silage and other intended uses under the Rainfall Index (RI) insurance policy called the Annual forage crop....
Columnists
Texas Tales
published: May 9th 2013 by: Mike Cox
Sarah’s Story Few Texas women ever lived a harder life than Sarah Creath McSherry Hibbens Stinnett Howard. A lady with true grit and more, the way she came by her long name is one of Texas’ more gripping tales....
Columnists
Executive Director’s Report...
published: May 9th 2013 by: Bill Hyman source: ICA of Texas
The USDA recently re-quested comments on their new mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) rules. ICA responded with a letter vigorously supporting the new rules and COOL in general. Other Texas livestock groups once again took the opposing view....
Industry News
ICA Convention to be held at the Lost Pines Resort
published: May 9th 2013 source: ICA of Texas
Independent Cattle-men’s Association of Texas will be hosting its 39th Annual Convention & Trade Show on June 26th-28th at the Hyatt Lost Pines Resort & Spa in Bastrop. We invite all to come and “Lose Yourself in the ICA Adventure”....
Columnists
President’s Address
published: May 9th 2013 by: Phil Sadler source: ICA of Texas
During the first week of April, ICA members from across the state made their way to the state capitol to visit their legislators. A-bout a dozen of us went to the offices of the senators and representatives from our individual areas of residence within the state to explain the ICA position on various legislative items....
Columnists
Chapter Happenings Around The Lone Star State
published: May 9th 2013 source: ICA of Texas
Chapter Happenings East Texas ICA By Nyanza Price The ETICA met on April 9, 2013. The speaker for the evening was Todd Huebner, senior sales de-velopment representative for Merial. Merial also provided the meal for the evening....
Industry News
TSSA annual meeting set
published: May 9th 2013 source: Texas Simmental/Simbrah Association
TSSA will hold its annual meeting on Saturday afternoon June 15, 2013 at the Brazos County Expo Center in Bryan, Texas. This year’s meeting is being held in conjunction with the TJSSA Futurity, which runs from June 13-16, 2013 at the same location....
Industry News
Tom to represent ASA
published: May 9th 2013 source: Texas Simmental/Simbrah Association
Ellen Tom will represent the American Simmental Association on the Young Cattlemen’s Conference Tour, May 29-June 27th. The tour, which will include young leaders in the beef industry from across the nation, will visit Denver, Chicago and Washington D....
Industry News
Lipsey announces retirement
published: May 9th 2013 source: Texas Simmental/Simbrah Association
Bozeman, Montana-April 26, 2013-After 17 years of distinguished and exceptional service, Dr. Jerry Lipsey announced his retirement from the Ame-rican Simmental Associa-tion (ASA). Under his leadership, the ASA continued its role as the industry leader in multi-breed genetic evaluation and spearheaded the most successful carcass merit program ever conducted by any breed association....
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