100-Dollar-Ideas
Global macroeconomic factors weigh heavily on cattle feeders’ bullishness, while the short cattle supply is not forgotten by bears.
Report to show On Feed and Placements above year-ago levels.
This is the third highest August 1 inventory since the series began in 1996.
Report reflects aggressive lightweight calf placements.
Oklahoma State University’s ag economist Derrell Peel discusses the emotional toll many producers pay when forced to cull herds.
Drought brought higher placements, but WASDE expects carcass weights to drop.
But projected breakevens for live cattle do not appear favorable.
While not a drought buster, the welcomed rains will help fill dried tanks and recharge dwindling water supplies.
Arizona farmers are helping area ranchers overcome loss of pastureland and the displacement of livestock by donating hay to families in need.
The cattle feeder’s cost of gain will increase approximately $0.04/lb from corn basis alone.
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association offers tips to protect your herd and your ranch or farm.
High priced corn and high priced feeder cattle are making positive break-evens impossible for feeders.
Improving weather conditions allowed sizable feeder cattle movement to resume.
Research shows about three in four producers approve of the program.
Why should cattle feeders fret after the 2008 presidential election.
Leigh Rubin brings his wild and twisted cartoony show to Denver during the 2011 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Tradeshow.
Study shows proposed new regulations from USDA will cost the broiler chicken industry more than $1 billion over five years.
As frost begins to cover fields, cattle producers should protect grazing livestock against prussic acid poisoning and bloat.
Stream and canal areas with the greatest variety of plants and soil organisms have the healthiest soil and least pollution potential.
Considerations to planning and management of flood-damaged pastures and hay fields.
While the type of vaccine administered is a central part of herd health, the proper timing of vaccinations is also significant.
Byproduct feeds from ethanol plants offer beef herd owners a way to supplement bad hay being baled for winter feed this year.
Agency wants permitting programs to include greenhouse gas emissions so they will be able to implement the agency’s first-time GHG permitting requirements starting in January.
The workshop, to be held Aug. 27 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, is the fourth in a series of five joint USDA/DOJ workshops focused on competition and regulatory issues in agriculture.