Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: Cattle Buisness

  • They Deserve It

    If you are not going to allow high quality US beef into your country, you deserve the <a href="http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200703/kt2007031515483911950.htm">highest beef prices</a> for your consumers. It isn't rocket science people.<br />n<br />n<strong>You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have…

  • Controlled-Risk

    I see that the US and Canada might get <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aUf0L2lZAzfM&refer=canada">`Controlled-Risk' Status for <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a>. The article claims this status might help us get some of our lost export markets back. I'm not so sure. <a href="http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/Engnews/20070313/650000000020070313180856E6.html">South Korea has indicated</a> that no mater what status we get from OIE, they are going to…

  • This is a Compromise?

    It appears that South Korea is willing, if that's what you want to call it, to compromise on their <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2252-South-Koreas-Trade-Barrier.html">official/unofficial US beef Blockade</a>. Instead of combing through a whole shipment of beef to find the most minute piece of bone fragment imaginable so they can reject the shipment, they are now willing to comb…

  • Running Scared

    Can you guess who is running scared from <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym>? The big Meat packers, <acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym>, good guess but wrong. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>And industry officials say they're ready to put up a fight.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWow, they are really going to fight this. Who…

  • Seven Easy Steps

    R-Calf has a press release out that gives <a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/News%20Releases/022807-acol.htm">seven easy steps</a> to implement <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> can immediately implement <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym> for beef by:<br />n<br />n *Allowing packers to indicate beef has come…

  • Cattle Herd Flat

    Last year about this time we were looking at the total cow herd expanding for the year. If there was any build up, which I am not to sure about, <a href="http://www.farmandranchguide.com/articles/2007/02/03/ag_news/livestock_news/live14.txt" >it is over</a>.<br />n<br />nI have to truthfully say this is good news for cattle producers. Fewer cattle will hold up cattle prices…

  • Out Of Touch

    You might remember that I commented the other day on the results of the <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2431-Checkoff-Survey.html">Beef Checkoff survey</a>. Now I see something that proves some people are out of touch with producers.<br />n<br />nIt appears the Montana Stock Growers Association (MSGA) thinks that the <a href="http://www.theprairiestar.com/articles/2007/02/03/ag_news/local_and_regional_news/local03.txt">Beef Checkoff fee should be raised to $2 dollars from…

  • Checkoff Survey

    <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=101861" >R-CALF: Checkoff Survey Results Match Group’s Policy Positions</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>R-CALF USA Checkoff Committee Chair Jim Hanna said the organization is extremely encouraged by the results of the recently completed survey of cattle producers on the Beef Checkoff Program. The survey was conducted by the Gallup Organization.<br />n<br />n“To have an overwhelming majority of…

  • COOL

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/10/news/state/72-labeling.txt" >Rehberg, Baucus work on labeling</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., said he is introducing legislation to speed up implementation of country-of-origin labeling of meat, while Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said he expects to be named chairman of the Senate subcommittee with jurisdiction over the issue.<br />n<br />nRehberg's legislation would move the deadline for…

  • News, Maybe

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ETHANOL_FIGHT?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Ethanol boom divides farmers, ranchers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>From corn fields to Wall Street, enthusiasm for ethanol is at an all-time high. But not everyone is enthusiastic.<br />n<br />nDemand for the corn-based fuel is driving up the cost of feed corn, making it more expensive to feed cows, chickens and pigs.<br />n<br />n"It's hard to…