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RUSSELLVILLE, Mo. – Better genetics puts high-quality beef on the consumer’s plate. Also, better genetics brings more profits back to the producer’s pocketbook. “Today we have the ability to make quality product and get paid for it,” Mike Kasten told 70 beef producers in the meeting hall of St....
Fort Worth, Texas – Beef producers can get free training to help them become more competitive by attending the Texas Beef Quality Producer (TBQP) program in Canton, Thursday, May 2, at the Van Zandt County Farm Bureau, or in Stephenville, Wednesday, May 3, at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center....
Sorting the opportunities from the challenges Everyone in the beef chain seems to agree we need more of it. That’s the simple explanation for a trend that shows hot carcass weights (HCW) have increased 200 pounds (lb....
There were 29.3 million beef cows in the U.S. on January 1, 2013, 2.9% less than a year ago and more than 10% lower than the most recent peak in 2006. In fact, beef cow numbers have declined for fifteen of the last seventeen years, generating significant focus on emerging signs of growth....
There are many words that could be used to describe Nolan Ryan: tough, intimidating, feared, dominating. In a career that stretched from 1966 to 1993, Ryan was one of the best pitchers to ever play the game of baseball....
Cattle producers need to set focused, systematic goals to capture more net dollars. When the discussion rests on the income side, marketing is the focus. Improved marketing to capture the monies available in the market is the key....
Burke Teichert, is no stranger to the beef industry. He was employed for many years in a management role with AgReserves (which consisted of Dessert Ranches, Rex Ranch, and several other large ranching enterprises)....
What would you say if someone told you that 40 percent of the cow-calf producers are struggling to justify being in the beef business? After all, the cattle business is a great business and currently humming along through great times....
STILLWATER, Okla. – For many years, cheap grain meant almost anything that enhanced grain use and feedlot measures of technical efficiency were consistent with beef industry efficiency. This is no longer true....
Beef production in 2012 was the lowest since 2005 and 2013 beef production is expected to be down another 5% or so. Production is likely to decline again in 2014. The per capita beef supply in 2013 is expected to be the lowest since 1952....
The country that is synonymous with steaks as big as Texas is suffering a serious shortage of cattle. The US national herd is now at an all time low. Numbers peaked at 132 million head of cattle in 1975....
The recent release of the 2011 National Beef Quality Audit (NBQA) conducted by beef industry researchers reconfirms the importance for beef producers to continue to focus on improving recordkeeping methods and tracking....
Agricultural producers make decisions each day using assumptions that are based on uncertainties – things like weather, prices and government regulations. The summer of 2012 was filled with such dilemmas....
The number of cattle placed into U.S. feedlots in September fell 18.8% compared with a year earlier, a steeper drop than analysts expected. The U.S. Department of Agriculture monthly cattle-on-feed report showed slightly fewer animals in the nation's feedyards than the average of analysts' expectations....
Getting cattle bought right. That’s normally a feeder’s first challenge, but today it’s just plain getting cattle. “The total size of the cattle industry has been shrinking, and shrinking rather abruptly for the last couple of years,” said Mike Sands, Informa Economics vice president....
If superior beef tenderness isn’t enough to whet your appetite, a system that predicts both beef and pork tenderness as well as color stability in both meats may be something you can sink your teeth into....
It is difficult to estimate just how much impact the drought this year has had on the cow herd. Beef cow slaughter for the year to date is down nearly 11 percent from last year, a smaller decline than previously expected....
This year’s drought has taken its toll on the livestock industry, which has sold off thousands of animals because feed is too costly. A program at the University of Missouri may help these producers rebuild their herds with animals that produce more of the high-quality grades of beef that consumers are demanding....
University of Illinois Ag Economist Darrel Good says price behavior since the release of USDA's latest crop production report suggests the corn and soybean markets believe production forecasts will increase and/or prices are already high enough to motivate the necessary rationing....
USDA's annual publication "Meat Animal Production, Disposition and Income" shows that five states had a 2011 value of cattle production in excess of $2 billion: Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and California....
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