So You Want To Help
Montana Cowboy College
Kent Hanawalt
When there is any talk of moving cattle, there are plenty of people who eagerly express their desire to “help”. In most cases the job can be done just as well without you maybe even better. But if you are invited to participate, bear in mind a few simple rules whose observance will make it much more likely that you will be invited again.
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Plan a Feeding Strategy to Improve Efficiency
Clifford Mitchell
Cattle Today
Looking for that next meal or asking the question “what’s for dinner,” is something most will do daily. Different situations or times of the week may call for something different or an affordable option that will stretch that dinner budget.
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EPD calculations aid in herd breeding
Eddie Baggs
Denton Record Chronicle
With spring come green grass, newborn calves and rebreeding the cow herd. All things in the cattle industry seem to come full circle this time of year.
Breeding plays an important role in the improvement of the herd and the marketability of its offspring. Many traits are influenced by the herd sire.
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Ky joining animal welfare debate
FOX 41
A new state commission is finding that setting standards for the care of farm animals is more complex than it may sound.
There’s lots at stake as the Kentucky Livestock Care Standards Commission wades into the animal welfare debate — a discussion stretching from farms to supermarkets.
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Busy lifestyles one factor in beef demand decline
BARBARA DUCKWORTH
Producer.com
The cattle industry can trace many of its woes to declining beef demand, says a Purdue University researcher.
Beef demand is half what it was in 1980, and consumers continue to turn away from it despite some recovery in 2004, James Mintert told the recent International Livestock Congress held in Denver.
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Stupid, Maybe; Crazy, No
Troy Marshall
BEEF
Chalk me up as one of those who didn’t get overly excited about the dust regulations that the Environmental Protection Agency proposed under the Clean Air Act.
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Recession contributes to reduction in number of operations
TIM HEARDEN
Capital Press
A two-decade trend of livestock industry consolidation continued in 2010, according to an annual farm survey by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
However, the declines in beef, dairy, hog and other operations last year were apparently caused more by a sputtering economy than by large producers getting larger.
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