Identifying Cull Cows

Identifying Cull Cows

Eldon Cole

Eldon Cole discusses identifying candidate cows for culling.

Eldon Cole is a University of Missouri livestock specialist for southwest Missouri headquartered at Mt. Vernon. He was raised on a livestock farm at Potosi, Mo., and graduated from the University of Missouri College of Agriculture in 1962 and received a Masters in Animal Husbandry in 1963. Mr. Cole began his Extension career in 1964 in Marshall and in 1968 transferred to Mt. Vernon as livestock specialist. His programs include beef and forage production and utilization, Missouri Steer Feedout, Show-Me-Select Beef Heifer Replacement Program, bull breeding soundness clinics, and grazing schools to name a few.

USDA Sticking by GIPSA Rule

USDA Sticking by GIPSA Rule

Jerry Hagstrom

DTN

The Obama administration will not withdraw the proposed Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration rule regarding the marketing of livestock and poultry, even though a bipartisan group of 147 House members wrote Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging that it be rewritten, a USDA spokesman said late last week.

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Cattle Producers Join Forcers for Better Sales

Cattle Producers Join Forcers for Better Sales

Linda Breazeale

Cattle Today

Cattle producers and buyers are finding a win-win method of marketing cattle in the Cattlemen’s Exchange and Homeplace Producer Sales.

Mississippi State University’s Extension Service is partnering with several organizations and sale barns to offer auctions in Winona and Hattiesburg for cattle that may never pass through either of those cities.

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BeefTalk: Little Money Available for High-cost Producers

BeefTalk: Little Money Available for High-cost Producers

Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension Service

Times are good and perennial grasses, or should we say perennial plants, are doing a little more waving in the wind this spring than their annual grass counterparts.

If one mentions grass, then cattle discussions are soon to follow. Even when times are good, with good grasses and good prices, survival is not to be taken for granted by grass and cattle producers.

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Cattle Producers Complain USDA Is Playing It By Ear

Cattle Producers Complain USDA Is Playing It By Ear

David Blanchard

Materials, Handling and Logistics

There’s a burning issue (sorry) in the world of the beef production supply chain: whether cattle ranchers should continue to identify cattle using hot brands, or to instead opt for ear tags.

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Montana ranchers push for Korea trade deal

Montana ranchers push for Korea trade deal

Great Falls Tribune

Eager to expand beef markets, Montana ranchers are throwing their weight behind a pending trade agreement with South Korea.

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NCBA: WTO Preliminary Ruling on COOL Good for Producers

NCBA: WTO Preliminary Ruling on COOL Good for Producers

Western Livestock Journal

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) reported that the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) preliminary ruling on Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) reinforces what the group, which is the oldest and largest national organization representing the U.S. cattle industry, has stated all along.

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Beef and Forage Field Day will be held June 9

Beef and Forage Field Day will be held June 9

The Daily Times

The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture’s annual Beef and Forage Field Day will be held June 9, this year’s event will once again be held at the East Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center located at 4341 UT Farm Road, Louisville, at the intersection of U.S. Hwy 129 (Alcoa Highway) and Singleton Station Road.

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Know the meanings of special meat labels

Know the meanings of special meat labels

WRAL

Fat-free, sugar-free, and carb-free used to be the big buzz words. Now, meat labels have all kinds of special phrasing – words like free range, no antibiotics, natural and organic. Some people are passionate about those labels and are willing to pay more for them.

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Producing dairy beef for today’s consumer

Producing dairy beef for today’s consumer

Dairy Herd Network

John Ligo (pron. lie-go), dairy/beef producer from Pennsylvania and 2011 checkoff-funded Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) award winner, says business success is his farm’s key driver.

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