Baxter Black, DVM: LETTER TO NORM ‘BOUT SPRING GATHER

Baxter Black, DVM:  LETTER TO NORM ‘BOUT SPRING GATHER

Dear Norm,

I just wanted you to know we’re still punchin’ cows here on the S X.  Not much has changed.  The Beacon well is working again.  Its opened up the west side for us.

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Grandin is a ‘hero,’ Pollan is a (gulp) ‘thinker?’

Grandin is a ‘hero,’ Pollan is a (gulp) ‘thinker?’

Greg Henderson

Drovers.com

It’s a sign of the times we live in, I guess, that one of our country’s most influential print publications stoops to the level of The National Enquirer in order to lure readers and drive newsstand sales.

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Management tools for preventing foot rot

Management tools for preventing foot rot

Sara Thissen

The Cattle Business Weekly

It’s that time of the year where sunny temperatures are on the rise and an increase of foot rot, can be found in producers’ cattle herds.

Foot rot can be troubling for the animal itself but also for the producer. Dr. Arlyn Scherbenske of Steele Veterinary of Steele, N.D. handles many foot rot cases each year.

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The Future Of Farming

The Future Of Farming

Mike Rowe

The Office

The last time I was in Indianapolis was the summer of 2003. I remember it pretty well because I was still sulking about The Colts being moved there without my permission and not quite over their inglorious departure from my hometown of Baltimore twenty years earlier.

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Five Ranches Where Being A Little Different From the Herd Pays Off

Five Ranches Where Being A Little Different From the Herd Pays Off

Boyd Kidwell

DTN/Progressive Farmer

If you aren’t happy with the returns you see selling cattle through today’s traditional markets, maybe it’s time to think outside the box. Here are five ways producers are squeezing profits from alternative markets.

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Special Feedlot Meeting Scheduled to Address EPA Rulings

Special Feedlot Meeting Scheduled to Address EPA Rulings

KMEG

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials are visiting feedlots in Northwest Iowa with increased frequency this spring. The visits are the result of the Agency looking at operations that require an NPDES permit, and a new effort to monitor 300 to 1000 head feedlots.

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Grass-fed Beef: Good for Cattle, Environment and Local Communities

Grass-fed Beef: Good for Cattle, Environment and Local Communities

 PR Newswire

Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFMI), the leading natural and organic foods supermarket, announces that grass-fed-and-finished beef is offered in the meat departments of all of its 284 stores in the United States.

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Heart of Texas Cow/Calf Clinic set for May 25th

Heart of Texas Cow/Calf Clinic set for May 25^th

San Saba News and Star

The annual Heart of Texas Cow/Calf Clinic will be held Tuesday evening May 25, 2010. It will be held at the Brown County Fairgrounds, located on highway 377 South, towards Brady. The Cow/Calf Clinic will start at 5:30 p.m. with a catered Bar-B-Q meal.

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Angus Producers to ‘Meet in Montana’

Angus Producers to ‘Meet in Montana’

The Cattle Business Weekly

The popular National Angus Conference & Tour (NAC&T) returns this fall and is set to draw a crowd. Following a one-year hiatus for last year’s World Angus Forum, the NAC&T will resurface Sept. 15-17 in Bozeman, Mont.

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How to manage a short calving season

How to manage a short calving season

Mark Keaton

Baxter Bulletin

Managing the cow herd to calve in 75 days is one of the most important steps toward increasing efficiency and profitability. Time and labor are very important and expensive commodities for a cow-calf producer. A controlled calving season concentrates activities that save time and labor.

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Spring Creek Ranch’s sustainable practices from farm to plate

Spring Creek Ranch’s sustainable practices from farm to plate

Mike Angus

VUE Weekly

For the last 10 years, the global beef industry has faced staggering challenges, from the BSE crisis to the rightful criticism of feedlots’ environmental impacts and questions of sustainability. Add popular documentaries like Food, Inc. and the growing organic and local-food movements, and the bigger picture for the beef industry starts to look gloomy.

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Tender Beef Co-op still working towards goal

Tender Beef Co-op still working towards goal

REMO ZACCAGNA

Daily Herald-Tribune

A long-planned but oft-delayed regional slaughterhouse may see the light of day by the end of the year.

The Peace Country Tender Beef Co-op has a $4.5 million plant planned for the North Peace town of Berywn as a primary goal, something it set its sights on more than six years ago.

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Pennsylvania Ag Secretary Celebrates May as ‘Beef Month’ at Lancaster County Meat Processor

Pennsylvania Ag Secretary Celebrates May as ‘Beef Month’ at Lancaster County Meat Processor

Earthtimes.com

Agriculture Secretary Russell C. Redding today celebrated May as "Beef Month" at Smucker’s Meats in Mount Joy, Lancaster County, saying Pennsylvania’s beef industry plays a major role in the state’s economy.

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CAB’s Stika honored at Kansas State

CAB’s Stika honored at Kansas State

Drovers

As the first brand of fresh beef and category leader today, Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB) must maintain a focus on excellence. John Stika, CAB president since 2006, has led a staff of 100 to realize the brand’s potential for consumers and cattlemen alike.

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Raising beef on nothing but grass

Raising beef on nothing but grass

Polly Campbell

Cincinnati.com

The grass has come up vigorously green in Kip Kummerle’s fields.

Like many of the lawns of his suburban neighbors in Liberty Township, it’s a beautiful living carpet covering the rolling ground. But unlike a lawn, it’s made up of a variety of species: orchard grass, alfalfa, clovers, timothy, bluegrass and fescues.

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