Day: April 10, 2018
The Big Picture
By Jim Whitt, Contributing Editor.
What does sustainability mean to you? That’s a question I’ve posed to people I’ve interviewed for a film project I’m producing.
Canadian Beef Is Better… Yeah Right It’s All in the Marketing
By Will Verboven, Contributing Editor.
I’m sure each one of those quality claims is disputed by competitors and, with beef, there are plenty of claims by a bewildering collection of marketers. Canadian beef merchandisers have been at the retail brand promotion game for a long time, but it has a checkered history, fraught with politics and some reluctance – which is probably the Canadian way.
Recollections
By Betty Jo Gigot, Publisher.
Oscar Wilde once said, “It is personalities, not principles, that move the age.” That quote was the opening of a story I wrote in August 1989 about Kenny Monfort upon his retirement. The second-generation force behind the massive Monfort organization, Kenny Monfort had an abundance of both personalities and principles.
Tuberculosis
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor.
Considering the outbreaks of tuberculosis (TB) in two South Dakota beef cattle herds in the past year and a half, it is best for all of us to be aware of some facts about this inconvenient disease.
Standing Fast
By Chris McClure, Contributing Editor.
During the late 1870s, shortly after the Texas Panhandle was opened to settlement thanks to the efforts of the U.S. Cavalry under Ranald S. Mackenzie, cattle rustling became a problem.
At the Heart of Cattle Feeding Warren Monfort
By Walt Barnhart, Contributing Editor.
Kenny Monfort was an icon in the beef industry, but he wasn’t the brains behind cattle feeding in the Monfort family. That title belongs to Warren Monfort, Kenny’s father.
Agri Research Center
By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor.
There are ways to prevent bovine respiratory disease (BRD) in cattle, but there’s not a “miracle-mycin” that magically keeps BRD from hurting a herd and keeping chronics out of the feedyard.
Passionate Perseverance
Aly McClure Contributing Editor.
In the heart of what was once a national park sits a 100-year-old family farm and feedyard in Garden City, Kan. Now called Reeve Cattle Co., the operation is a bustling hive of energy and innovation, always willing to go the next step in improving the agriculture industry.
Hot Time in Phoenix
By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor.
When winter’s wrath had many digging out of snow and battling blizzards, the Arizona desert was a welcome treat for some 7,600 producers, feeders and others with beef industry roots.