Category: Cattle Buisness

The Wyoming legislature is going to take up a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/20/build/wyoming/30-wolfplan.inc">new bill to answer the problems</a> the FWS has with their present wolf management plan. I am very glad to see this development. While I do agree that outside of a certain area wolves should be considered as predator I was afraid that the bureaucrats…

I had read about this insurance being stopped in a print publication but I knew nothing about it. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/20/build/state/30-cattleinsurance.inc">This article</a> at least gives some details about it. Cattle price insurance. A government run insurance program to protect a person from drop in price of cattle. This is a concept that I have never heard…

Can you imagine working hard all your life producing something and then seeing it all destroyed? That is what is happening to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/15/build/wyoming/25-brucellosis.inc">this rancher in Wyoming.</a> Because animals in his herd have tested positive for Brucellosis the government is condemning his whole herd. Don&acirc;

Well, as is no surprise, <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20031224/ap_on_re_as/mad_cow_asia">South Korea and Japan</a> have now banned import of beef from the U.S. due to the <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> case. This will really hurt the cattle industry since these two countries are the biggest importer of quality U.S. beef in the world. I guess this means for the…

Well I said it myself. It was not if <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> was discovered it was a matter of when. Well as is <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20031223/ap_on_he_me/mad_cow">reported</a> any where you want to look in the media, a cow in the U.S. has &acirc;

I read <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20056-2003Dec21?language=printer">this front page article </a>in the Washington Post with a great deal of interest. I have talked about the red hot cattle market before and how nice it is to see but I do find some things in the article very interesting.<br />n<br />n<i>Ditto down at Dilmart Furniture. Carpets, sofas and large-screen…