Category: Featured

A Fresh Look At a Successful Transition
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor The Ostrand Angus story is a blend of old and new, of family and one person’s faith in another’s integrity.

CALF’s Featured Lady
By Betty Jo Gigot, Publisher Talk about a mixed relationship. She was a city gal attending Texas Tech and he was a country guy going

Beef Empire Days 2019
By Katie Prewitt, Contributing Editor Empire is probably the most appropriate word to use when trying to describe the world of beef we live in

Cattle Marketing – Which Way Will Prices Go?
By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor There’s not much exciting about marketing cattle these days. On July 15, August live cattle futures prices were within a

U.S. Beef Trade with China Remains Small and Fights for a Foothold
By David F. Crosby, Contributing Editor United States beef exports to China resumed in June 2017 after a 14-year halt. That year, the United States

Braveheart® Beef and Beaver’s Bend Brewery
By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor As a meat scientist with Gary Smith, Ph.D., as his mentor at Colorado State University (CSU), Brad Morgan crafted his

The Giles Family and the Kansas Wildfire
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor There are certain things we can do to prepare for a blizzard, not much we can do for a flood

Because It Matters
By Betty Jo Gigot, Publisher To hear Georg Joutras tell it, the project just kind of grew like Topsy, generating its own energy as time

Mc6 Cattle Feeders
A Key Link in 44 Farms, Prime Pursuits, Direct Supply Chain to Walmart By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor Warren White and Mc6 Cattle Feeders have

It Came Fast and It Changed Fast
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor Bill and Kathy Rhea had front-row seats to the devastating bomb cyclone that hit the Midwest March 13-15, 2019. Two