Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: Cattle Buisness

  • Traceback

    My friend over at <a href="http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/">Northview</a> asked me last week my opinion about <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/bayer_content.asp?contentid=201462">this</a>. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>In letters sent to Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Rep. Dennis Rehberg, R-Mont., this week, R-CALF USA relayed that the organization has endorsed and supports what is referred to as The Traceback Bill, a…

  • Recall

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=2A88FCDB-D4DE-1315-5A79DEB6B457E0D1"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> initiates largest beef recall ever</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> announced Sunday the parent company of the Hallmark/Westland packing plant in Chino, California had agreed to voluntarily recall…

  • Increase

    I see the shills for the big meat packers are backing the beef checkoff increase.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1052277720080210">Cattle group votes to beef up marketing fee</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Cattle producers voted this weekend to increase the fee that they pay to finance the "Beef, It's What's For Dinner" advertising campaign and other programs, because inflation and other…

  • Pay For Label

    <a href="http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/02/09/news/south_dakota/559d65ec5b34774b862573ea001513d1.txt">Ag groups blast plan to make retailers pay for labeling </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A plan to have retailers pay for part of the costs of country-of-origin labeling is another attempt to derail the plan, leaders of several agricultural groups say.<br />n<br />n"It's just <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The…

  • Quick Hits

    Things I should have posted about but haven't.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/05/news/state/38-brucellosis.txt">Brucellosis is almost wiped out in the US</a> with the declaration that Texas is now Brucellosis Free. Of course there still is the problem of Brucellosis in Bison and elk in the Greater Yellowstone Area, but that is not cattle. I still think it can…

  • Cattle Cycle

    <a href="http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/1202425683667.xml">Weather, ethanol short-circuit the normal cattle cycle</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>If the cattle cycle isn't dead, it's at least on life support. That's what market experts told ranchers today at the annual Cattle Fax Outlook Seminar at the Cattle Industry Convention in Reno, Nevada. Cattle Fax is a producer-owned beef industry market analysis organization.<br />n<br />nTwo…

  • Black Eye

    I hate it when a bunch of assholes give the whole beef industry a <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=CCD314BC-BA90-E7B6-0752DE473E118D6A">bad name</a>. Not only am I talking about the assholes at the slaughter plant, but also the owners that sent such animals to slaughter in the first place. If they are that bad of shape that the critters can't stand…

  • Advertising

    If you have read here long you know that while I am not fond of the beef checkoff, I don't mind it either. Advertising never hurts, unless you advertise like this. Actually I know it's not an advertisement, but it might be mistaken as one. <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/3074-Advertising.html#extended">Continue reading "Advertising"</a>

  • Argentina

    <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=188159">U.S. Cattlemen To Congress: Fix <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>’s Argentina Mess</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><acronym title="United States Cattleman's Association">USCA</acronym> (Jan. 7, 2008) – Exactly one year ago this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by…

  • What’s 2008 Look Like

    Here are some predictions of what 2008 will look like for cattle producers.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=187023">In The Cattle Markets: Top Ten List For 2008</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>10. Slow growth in beef cow herd.<br />n9. Adaption to <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym>.<br />n8. Trade Growth.<br />n7. Debate on Packer Ownership Bans. <br />n6. Growing Pork Production.<br />n5.…