Category: Cattle Buisness
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Argentine Beef
<a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i6xzlH1hMRduz7Tf9n6W14_lkqRAD8TTHUO00">Argentine Farmers Give Up Beef Business</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Argentines are passionate about their beef — from cattle grazed on the sprawling pampas grasslands, it's a national staple, delivered inexpensively and received with religious fervor at Sunday barbecues nationwide.<br />n<br />nBut while Argentines are some of the world's top meat-eaters, consuming nearly 154 pounds per capita…
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Brilliant
I find stories like this one so blatantly obvious that I lack the ability to respond to them.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.elkodaily.com/articles/2007/12/27/news/local_news/news1.txt">Ethanol, cattle prices linked by corn</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As the price of corn rises – largely due to increased ethanol production – the price of feeder cattle falls, said Ron Torell, Cooperative Extension livestock specialist.<br />n<br…
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Trailing Cattle
My dad talks about the days of running cattle in this country when he was a kid. <br />n<br />nHis Granddad was more of a farmer than rancher but he had quite a few cattle. Once a year his granddad would gather up his older steers and trail them to the railroad in Hardin. Dad…
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Checkoff Changes
Damn computers, I had a whole big commentary wrote up and the damn computer ate it. Sorry I can't recreate it.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/22/news/state/52-cattlemen.txt">Cattlemen propose changes in federal beef checkoff law</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Cattle producers in Nebraska and other states are pushing for what would be the first significant changes to the national beef checkoff program…
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Relief?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/20/news/state/29-brucellosis.txt">State still on safe side of brucellosis</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Months of additional tests for brucellosis in Montana cattle have turned up no new cases, Department of Livestock officials said Wednesday.<br />n<br />n"Definitely we feel significant relief," said Marty Zaluski, state veterinarian at the Livestock Department.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI'm not real sure I would say it is…
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Ethanol Dilemma
Everybody out there knows I am not a big fan of ethanol. Ethanol and bio fuels are in my opinion damaging our food security by turning our food into fuel. We have choices in our life and by filling up our SUV with food, we are driving the price of our food up which damages…
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Conflicitng Information
You might remember me talking about <a href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/3005-Win,-Lose.html">E coli and distillers grain</a> a few days ago. Now some conflicting information to that has come to light. It seems some scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have been experimenting with <a href="http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1208&u_sid=10203501">feeding distillers grain to cattle to lower E coli levels in them</a>. They have failed…
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Win, Lose
Now this is really ….. interesting. Part of the whole ethanol boom is the distillers grain that is available after the ethanol is made. This distillers grain has turned into a real boom for the cattle feeding buisness. The cattle feeders might be losing some corn but they are making up for it with the…
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Rules
I didn't comment on the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>'s OTM rule yesterday allowing older Canadian Cattle to be imported into the US. It's one of those situations that I have mixed feelings about.<br />n<br />nThe people opposed to the OTM rule say that they…
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Loonie
The Canadian cattlemen have really been getting beat on in the last few years. I really feel for them. First there was the case of <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> which closed the border into the US where a large portion of their beef goes and really sent the market into a nose dive. A lot…