Steve Cornett

Steve Cornett has been covering the beef industry since 1973. A regular contributor to Drovers, Steve works from a home office in Canyon, TX, and a ranch office in Hall County.

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Who Wants to Watch the Packers Squirm?
Next week will be a good one for folks with good internet access and a few free hours who want to see some rhetorical fireworks about cattle price discovery.
April 19, 2022 01:18 PM
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meat processing
Opinion
Cornett: A+ on APLUS
Regional processing plants are not likely to be an easy success, but we need them so badly. So much more badly than we need crabs-in-a-bucket laws telling big feeders their marketing methods are too efficient to be fair.
April 08, 2022 02:46 PM
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Cornett: Umm, Yes. Stochastic Error Terms
Regarding those cash mandates, now we have NCBA and Farm Bureau saying don’t do it. Don’t need it. And R-CALF apparently saying they won’t settle for such weak tea.
April 03, 2022 01:11 PM
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Cornett: The Mandaters Move On
Senators renewed their call for mandatory minimum cash trades for the purchase of fed cattle as they unveiled a revised Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, and suggested Senate will hold hearings soon.
March 29, 2022 09:35 AM
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Arthur Bryant
Opinion
BBQ paradox: Don’t eat the good stuff
The owner of a Kansas City barbeque joint says he’s “embarrassed” by brisket prices. He wants customers to “order anything besides the brisket and burnt ends.” Have the Biden folks read the history of the Nixon debacle?
March 18, 2022 01:41 PM
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Black baldie feedlot
Opinion
Cornett: A ‘Hard Cull’ On The Facts
In a rebuttal to accusations of being an “ally” to big packers over federal mandates for minimum cash trades for live cattle, Steve Cornett pleads not guilty and offers additional arguments for consideration.
March 11, 2022 11:53 AM
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Happy cows
Opinion
Cornett: ‘What Does the End of Beef Mean for Our Sense of Self?’
While we were busy exploring whether the government should make laws mandating how cattle are marketed, The New York Times has been writing beef’s eulogy. Indeed, “beef is the Kiev of foods, besieged on all fronts.”
March 08, 2022 07:18 AM
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ISU feedbunk
Opinion
Cornett: Q&A With An Iowa Cattle Feeder
In the fifth installment of a series exploring cattle market reforms, Steve Cornett conducts a Q&A with Brad Kooima, a commodity broker and independent cattle feeder in Sioux Center, Iowa.
March 03, 2022 06:51 PM
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UNL feedlot
Opinion
Cornett: Stewardship and Sustainability Will Influence Price Discovery
Taking a detour into how stewardship and sustainability play a role in the future of cattle marketing, Steve Cornett offers the fourth installment of a who-knows-how-many series on proposals to reform cattle markets.
February 25, 2022 12:52 PM
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UNL feedlot
Opinion
Cornett: Charity Markets
In the third installment of a who-knows-how-many series, Steve Cornett ruminates about the responses he’s gathered from readers who are either for or against Sen. Chuck Grassley’s proposed fix for cattle markets.
February 15, 2022 12:03 PM
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