At $55 Per Pound This Beef Melts in Your Mouth
Mark Parker
Progressive Farmer
Raising Japanese cattle in the heart of the Ozarks puts JB Kobe Beef Farms way outside the U.S. beef-production box.
At $55 Per Pound This Beef Melts in Your Mouth
Mark Parker
Progressive Farmer
Raising Japanese cattle in the heart of the Ozarks puts JB Kobe Beef Farms way outside the U.S. beef-production box.
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Abortion Diagnostics
Troy Smith
Angus Journal
If you keep livestock long term, you will experience death losses. Most cow-calf producers expect to suffer some losses due to abortion and stillborn calves. However, they typically expect those to occur in a very small percentage of pregnancies.
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Preparing the Cow Herd for Cold Weather
Rick Rasby
University of Nebraska
Cows in an optimal body condition score (BCS 5 to 6) are better able to withstand adverse environmental conditions. As a risk management strategy at the ranch level going into the winter, reduce the number of BCS 4 cows and increase the number of BCS 5 cows in your herd.
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Want Efficient Cows? Feed Them Well
Beef Producer
With winter months ahead, keeping an eye on herd body condition will be essential to easy calving and re-breeding, a Texas A&M beef cattle specialist told a group of producers at the South Central Texas Cow-Calf Clinic recently.
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Hunter has a cow when bovines invade hunting area
Marc Murrell
Topeka Capital Journal
Anyone who spends time hunting has run across their fair share of cows.
These often harmless bovine are a fixture in many pastures, woodlands and ranches frequented by deer and turkeys. Sometimes they mingle, sometimes they don’t. One thing is certain — they are often a source of entertainment, or headache, for some outdoorsmen.
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NAFTA and US Farmers—20 Years Later
Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Common Dreams
One of the clearest stories from the NAFTA experience has been the devastation wreaked on the Mexican countryside by dramatic increases in imports of cheap U.S. corn.
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Never too late to start career in showing cattle
Mary MacArthur
The Western Producer
Some people buy a fancy sports car or take a cruise to satisfy their midlife crisis. Shelley Grundberg quit her job and started to show cattle.
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School Raises Cattle For Hands-On Learning And Earning
Ann Behling
Hay and Forage Grower
When challenged to help trim the Nettle Creek School Corporation’s tight budget, two staff members looked no further than its 40-acre Hagerstown, IN, farm.
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USDA’s Meat ID Labels Spark International Food Fight
Ciaran McEvoy
Investors Business Daily
Most Americans don’t know where their chicken, beef and pork were born, raised and slaughtered, but a new rule now requires that labeling. Supporters say it educates consumers. But critics, including major meat companies, say it’s a costly and unnecessary protectionist measure.
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Beef farmers planning commingled cattle pool to do business with big buyers
TED BOOKER
Watertown Daily Times
North country beef farmers are preparing to do business with farms across the Midwest next fall by pooling their calves into a commingled herd.
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