Judging With Professionalism
Rachel Cutrer & Joelynn Donough
Angus Journal
‘Ah, the showring — where I can lose old friends and make new enemies.”
This quote by legendary livestock judge Miles McKee, professor emeritus of Kansas State University (K-State) describes a familiar sentiment for those who have exhibited or evaluated cattle at a livestock show.
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Cattle Thieves Target Sweetwater Business
Alyssa Spirato
News Channel 9
It’s a trend that cattle farmers hope will not rise.
Cattle thieves struck a livestock center in Sweetwater. Mark Houston owns East Tennessee Livestock Center. He says he’s had thefts before, but nothing on the magnitude that he has seen.
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Early weaning? Manage the heifers right
Geni Wren
Bovine Veterinarian Magazine
Geni Wren If cattle country experiences another drought like last year, many of your beef clients may be early weaning calves if forages are in short supply. But can early-weaning of replacement heifers negatively affect future reproduction?
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Supreme Court Denies Financially Distressed Farmers Tax Relief
Marc C. Lovell
Delta Farm Press
Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code is used by financially distressed farmers to reorganize and remain in business.
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Defining beef’s future
Forrest Roberts
Drovers
Last year, we took a big step toward not only putting a stake in the ground to determine where we are, but also setting a course for the future.
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BQA Training Important, Necessary For Employees
Burt Rutherford
BEEF
At one point during a recent Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) training session for feedyard employees, while he was talking about evaluating incoming cattle on arrival and moving any that are in need of immediate care to the hospital, Ted McCollum stopped and asked the group, “Does any feedyard not do this?”
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Unified Equine Missouri LLC to Open Meat Processing Facility at Rockville, Missouri
The Stock Exchange
A Missouri-based company is on track to re-open an existing meat processing plant in Rockville, Missouri, by summer’s end. Rockville is in Bates County in western Missouri, a rural area hard-hit by job losses when the plant closed almost a year ago.
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