Category: Industry Issues
Feeders Get ‘Market Flu’ During COVID
By Heather Smith Thomas, Contributing Editor The livestock industry is facing uncertain times and feedlots have been struggling with marketing issues. Warren Rusche, South Dakota
Hedging In a Plague
Price Protection Against COVID-19 By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor With projections for losses of $6/cwt., or more for cattle going on feed in mid-summer, there
CALF’s Featured Lady
By Will Verboven, Contributing Editor When it comes to cattle market analysis on a North American scale, there are few equal to Anne Wasko of
David and Goliath of Television
By Baxter Black, Contributing Editor “The farmer has always been a peasant.” – Richard Blinco, Idaho When the market crashed in 1975, Richard had a
Heroism Needed on the Harvest Floor
By Megan Webb, Ph.D., Contributing Editor During morning chores, the sunrise reminds me to be thankful for a new day, a new bounty of hope,
Plant-Based Blasphemy
Beyond Impossible to Compare with Protein-Packed Beef By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor As was demonstrated by COVID-19’s impact on consumers, supermarket meat cases were often
International Livestock Congress
Beef Industry’s Maligned Carbon Footprint By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor Frank Mitloehner is mad, sometimes fuming. If you spread manure about the beef industry’s carbon
Sonny in San Antonio
Nation’s Beef Producers Welcome Sec. of Ag Sonny Perdue By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor Ready to get his hands on a juicy, Texas-sized burger, Secretary
U.S.-MEXICO-CANADA AGREEMENT
Finally Close to Approval Big Win for Beef By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor In between impeachment proceedings, exterminating the world’s most deadly terrorist and a
Fake Meat Marketing Provides a Lesson
By Will Verboven, Contributing Editor I expect many in the cattle and beef business are somewhat dismayed at all the free publicity garnered by the