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Beef Production
Applying the Soil Health Principles to Fit Your Operation
Applying the Soil Health Principles to Fit Your Operation

What’s your context? One of the 6 soil health principles we discuss in this week’s episode is knowing your context. What’s yours? What is your goal? What’s the reason you run cattle?

Shaye Koester-Wanner
Industry
On-farm Severe Weather Safety
On-farm Severe Weather Safety

When a solid home, tornado shelter or basement may be miles away, and you’re caught in a severe storm, keep in mind these on-farm severe weather safety tips.

Aimee Robinson
Beef Production
Quantifying the Value of Good Ranch Management
Quantifying the Value of Good Ranch Management

The value of good management has never been higher. Well managed cow-calf operations can concentrate inputs into short time frames focused on critical control points of production.

Mark Z. Johnson
Education
K-State Meat Animal Evaluation Team Claims National Championship
K-State Meat Animal Evaluation Team Claims National Championship

Kansas State University dominates the national Meat Animal Evaluation contest for the fourth year in a row.

Angie Denton
Beef Production
Quantifying the Value of Good Management
Quantifying the Value of Good Management

Historically low current US cowherd inventories and limited evidence of heifer retention indicates the robust markets we currently enjoy should be sustained for at least the next couple of years.

Mark Z. Johnson
Industry
Properly Prepared Beef Remains Safe; Meat Institute Calls For Guidance to Protect Workers at Beef Facilities
Properly Prepared Beef Remains Safe; Meat Institute Calls For Guidance to Protect Workers at Beef Facilities

The Meat Institute said properly prepared beef remains safe to eat and called for USDA and the CDC to provide worker safety guidance specific to beef processors to ensure workers are protected from infection.

North American Meat Institute
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Opinions

Nevil Speer
Nevil Speer
Speer: Protectionism’s Persistent Misunderstandings

A third column grappling with some of the baffling claims regarding international trade. The focus here is specifically on the noise surrounding the imports of live cattle.

Bill Bullard - R-CALF USA
Bill Bullard - R-CALF USA
Bullard: Alas, A Genuine Discussion on Beef and Cattle Trade

Industry trade associations have "downplayed the impact imported cattle and beef have on the U.S. cattle industry," claims R-CALF CEO Bill Bullard, in a response to a column by Drovers' contributing editor Nevil Speer.

Nevil Speer
Nevil Speer
Speer: Limestone vs Protectionist Brimstone

Do America's trade policies push ranchers out of business? That's a protectionist's view, but there's no evidence suggesting ranchers “displaced” by beef imports – nor being unduly damaged in the marketplace.     

John Nalivka
John Nalivka
Nalivka: USDA Discontinuing its Mid-year Cattle Inventory

USDA reports are not an exact science of data collection and should not be treated as such. We have to take the information from all reports, reported and/or surveyed, and use it accordingly in our analysis.