Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: Cattle Buisness

  • Interesting News

    <a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-10T181804Z_01_N10469272_RTRIDST_0_FOOD-BEEF-JAPAN.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna" title="Reuters News">U.S. beef sales to Japan off to fast start</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Sales of U.S. beef to Japan are off to a fast start with 500 metric tons sold since the market reopened July 27 and three stores in Tokyo selling out of their offerings this week, U.S. meat industry sources said on Thursday.<br…

  • Thinking Alike

    Everybody’s herd has a bottom end. I like that. I've never heard it put that way but I really like that. Otherwise, <a href="http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/newsrelease/2006/current/02beefta.htm">this article</a> is like reading my mind and past actions. I really liked this part here:<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Some culling thoughts would be to early wean calves and cull in this order: open…

  • Grass Fed

    I have been hearing more and more about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/04/news/business/20-grass-beet.txt">grass fed beef</a> and the potential there is for profitability there. I'm not opposed in any way, shape or form to people doing this. I think it's great for the cattle business as a whole.It takes many more acres of ground to get a critter to…

  • Disconnect

    It struck me that something wasn't quite right here.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.farmgate.uiuc.edu/archive/2006/07/post_37.html">If You Are A Cowboy, How Do You Plan To Survive?</a><br />n<br />nThe title here really caught my eye. What do they mean? So i dove into the article to find out.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Little boys and girls want to be cowboys. But today cowboys…

  • It Actually Happened

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_US_BEEF?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Japan lifts ban on U.S. beef imports</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>apan on Thursday announced the resumption of U.S. beef imports, ending a ban imposed in January due to concerns about mad cow disease that had strained ties with Washington.<br />n<br />nU.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer immediately welcomed the move, which reopens Japan's lucrative market to a select…

  • Closer Yet

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_US_BEEF?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Japan prepares to lift ban on U.S. beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japan is expected to approve a partial resumption of imports of U.S. beef this coming week, a news report said Saturday.<br />n<br />nThe government plans to officially approve the resumption on Thursday, the national Yomiuri newspaper said, without citing sources, which is customary in Japanese…

  • Food Production

    Over at <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/archives/2341">mtpolitics</a> there is an interesting link to a story on ethanol (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/business/25ethanol.html) in the NY Times yesterday. If you are at all interested in the politics of ethanol it is a good read. It also raises some of the concerns I have as a livestock producer in the US.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Unless we…

  • Agreement

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_JAPAN_MAD_COW?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Japan agrees to lift ban on U.S. beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japan agreed Wednesday to lift its ban on U.S. beef imports, pending planned inspections of U.S. meat processing plants, the agriculture ministry said. The Asian nation imposed the ban over concerns about mad cow disease.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI am glad to see that this long running…

  • More Opposition

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/19/news/state/43-bison-livestockgroup.txt">Livestock groups turn up opposition to Schweitzer's bison plans</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Two of the state's largest livestock groups are turning up their opposition to <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>'s proposals regarding the management of bison that leave Yellowstone National Park each year.<br />n<br />nThe Montana Farm Bureau issued a new study that maintains the threat of…

  • Beef Supply Forecast

    <blockquote>The Association warns there will be, “A world beef deficit in five years.” NBA chief executive, Robert Forster, says growth in the world economy, especially in Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the former Soviet Bloc, will increase demand for beef while the two major beef exporters, Brazil and Argentina will not be able to…