Category: Industry Issues

Price Margins Don’t Add Up in Favor of Producers
Overreacting During Market Turmoil Could Be Risky By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor “If you’re in the middle of a tornado, don’t remodel the kitchen.” Derrell

A Call to Arms
If Beef Producers Want to Do Something About Fake Meat, Beef Producers Need to Step Up By Burt Rutherford, Contributing Editor What we’re doing here

A Beef With Bill
Bill Gates’ Call for ‘100% Synthetic Beef’ Blasted at Cattle Industry Convention Winter Reboot By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor If you use a computer or

Encroachment on Rural America
Will Your Fairgrounds Be Inhabited by the Urban Homeless By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor Our country was greatly relieved when 2020 ended. “That awful year,”
Horse Meat Harvest Still an Issue
Lobby Groups Battle on in Canada By Will Verboven, Contributing Editor The ongoing issue of unwanted and abandoned horses has evolved differently between Canada and

Caring is Sharing
Addressing Food Insecurity With Meat Protein By Faith Baxter, Contributing Editor According to Feeding America, a nonprofit network of food banks, 1 in 9 Americans

Cattle Industry Winter Reboot
2021 CattleFax Outlook Seminar By Patti Wilson Contributing Editor Internet technology scored high marks on Feb. 24, as CattleFax went ahead with its annual seminar

Saving the Ogallala
Ogallala Summit Confronts the Aquifer’s Adversities By Larry Stalcup Contributing Editor Their mission is to prime the pump of High Plains water conservation. And stakeholders

U.S. CattleTrace
A Voluntary Disease Tracability Program By Gilda V. Bryant, Contributing Editor The COVID-19 virus has shown us just how quickly a pathogen can spread through

Happiness Is a Choice
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor As of this writing, Vice President Biden has been elected president of the United States. President Trump is “lawyered up,”