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EDUCATION OF A LIFETIME PART 1: KARL (Kansas Agricultural Rural Leadership)
By Patti Wilson Contributing Editor CALF News National Accounts Manager Jess Ebert of Tescott, Kan., is a newly hatched graduate of the Kansas Agriculture
Meet One Female Shaping the Illinois Cattle Industry
By Betty Haynes Illinois Beef Association CALF News Copy Editor Larisa Willrett was recently featured as part of a women in ag story in
All In Column: Environmental Stewardship
By Chris McClure, Contributing Editor I have to admit that there is a streak of environmentalist in me. It’s a practical type of environmentalism, but
Plan For What You Can and Can’t Control
Good Genetics, Price and Even Weather Risk Management By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor “There is not accountability until a crisis occurs.” When he’s discussing ranch
The Experience of Beef
By Kristin Mackey, Contributing Editor This is the first in a two-part series about the writer’s enthusiastic foray into ranch life. Beef. It’s more than
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
Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame – Foxley, Herring Newest Members
By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor Bill Foxley, a self-taught, wheeling and dealing Nebraska cattle feeder and hedger, and James Herring, a mild-mannered Texas feedyard executive
CattleFax Outlook Seminar
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor CattleFax presented its Annual Outlook Seminar at the 2019 Cattle Industry Convention to an interested and engaged audience. Altogether, their
Dairy in the Desert
By Aly McClure, Contributing Editor There has been a change in western Kansas’ scenery that’s been shifting for quite a while. It began with the
The High Risk of Complacency
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor This month’s Chuteside Manner will digress from cattle health and focus on a dirty job. Specifically, I am talking about