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Livestock risk protection insurance for feeder cattle

Livestock risk protection insurance for feeder cattle

Dillon Feuz

Tri State Livestock News

The cattle market has seen an increase in price volatility in recent years. This increased volatility translates into greater risk and uncertainty for cattle producers. For a risk seeking individual, more volatility means a possibility of receiving higher returns on his cattle.

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Local Study Shows No Difference in Beef Cattle Gains Between Well and Pond Water

Local Study Shows No Difference in Beef Cattle Gains Between Well and Pond Water

University of Missouri

Producers know that quality water is the single most important nutrient for the survival of animals.

However, quantifying the differences in cattle’s performance on good versus poor quality water is tricky to do says Eldon Cole, a livestock specialist with University of Missouri Extension.

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Should We Be Expanding The Cowherd?

Should We Be Expanding The Cowherd?

cattlenetwork.com

National statistics released in January of this year indicated that the U.S. cowherd had declined number-wise to a level comparable to 1959. However, the number of cattle doesn’t tell the whole story in the beef industry. In 2009, beef production, in terms of meat produced, was slightly over 25 billion pounds.

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In E. Coli Fight, Some Strains Are Largely Ignored

In E. Coli Fight, Some Strains Are Largely Ignored

New York Times

WILLIAM NEUMAN

For nearly two decades, Public Enemy No. 1 for the food industry and its government regulators has been a virulent strain of E. coli bacteria that has killed hundreds of people, sickened thousands and prompted the recall of millions of pounds of hamburger, spinach and other foods.

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Docility

Docility

Dave Barz, DVM

Tri State Livestock News

The older I get the more I appreciate heifers, cows, and calves that are easy to handle. Thirty-five years ago no one used yearling bulls, and most of the two-year-olds were halter broke. It was simple to throw a loop on an adult animal and have it restrained immediately.

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Ronnie Green selected as new IANR vice chancellor

Ronnie Green selected as new IANR vice chancellor

KTIC

Sutton resident and beef geneticist Ronnie D. Green has been named University of Nebraska Vice President and Harlan Vice Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Green, Global Technical Services senior director at Pfizer Animal Health, will begin his work at the university July 19 pending approval by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. "I see this as a phenomenal opportunity to serve the people of the state of Nebraska and beyond," Green said.

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Warnings over East Texas cattle rustlings

Warnings over East Texas cattle rustlings

Wilton Johnson

KYTX

The last time we spoke with Kilgore cattle rancher Carlos Griffin, his herd was doing pretty well.

"We had good moisture and lots of hay," he recalled.

He also did well fending off cattle rustlers, which are expected to begin their pilfering as beef prices stabilize and inch higher.

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EPA to gather information about factory farms as part of settlement with environmental groups

EPA to gather information about factory farms as part of settlement with environmental groups

Michael J. Crumb

Daily Press

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will gather information about factory farms to determine whether more should be regulated as part of a settlement with environmental groups concerned about water pollution.

The EPA reached the settlement Tuesday with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and Waterkeeper Alliance.

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Cumberland farmer gets new premises ID trial

Cumberland farmer gets new premises ID trial

Heidi Clausen

The Country Today

A Polk County cattle rancher found guilty last fall of violating Wisconsin’s livestock premises registration law will get a new trial.

Polk County Judge Molly GaleWyrick last week granted a new trial for Patrick Monchilovich of Cumberland because of new evidence.

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Do You Know What Your Beef Had For Dinner?

Do You Know What Your Beef Had For Dinner?

COURTNEY HUMISTON

NBC New York

It seems that not even East Village burger joints can resist jumping on the ethically, sustainably raised and locally-sourced band wagon.

This week, two such endeavors are opening on First Avenue. Tallgrass Burger between 12th and 13th will reportedly sell six different burgers all made from cattle fed on New York or Vermont grass and supplied by Hardwick Beef, a producer committed to raising hormone and steroid-free meat.

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2 beef cattle in Kentucky test positive for bovine tuberculosis

2 beef cattle in Kentucky test positive for bovine tuberculosis

CB Online

Two beef cattle in Kentucky have tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, and state veterinarian Robert Stout says results are pending on a third animal.

Stout said Wednesday that the two infected cows were in a Fleming County herd in northern Kentucky, but he said the three animals didn’t enter the food supply.

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Deciding Which Horn Fly Control Measure is Best

Deciding Which Horn Fly Control Measure is Best

Missouri Ag Connection Eldon Cole, a livestock specialist with University of Missouri Extension, says there are several things to keep in mind when deciding which horn fly control measure it best.

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NCBA Explains Position

NCBA Explains Position

Hoosier AG Today

  Following a Tuesday meeting with USDA officials the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association met Wednesday morning with the American Farm Bureau Federation, National Farmers Union and four cattle-specific groups to explain the latest tweaks to their governance proposal. At question is the firewall between NCBA’s policy and checkoff funded activities. NCBA says the firewall applies only to how checkoff dollars are used.

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Grilling grass-fed beef

Grilling grass-fed beef

Diane Stoneback

THE MORNING CALL

For the start of this year’s grilling season, you can serve your guests something so old that it’s new again and something so hot Oprah Winfrey and her pals are talking about it — grass-fed beef.

It’s meat that comes from cattle that have spent their lives in open pastures grazing on grasses, without the use of antibiotics or growth-promoting hormones.

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