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Tight Supplies, Strong Demand Signal Steady Prices for 2023
By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor Cattle prices appear to remain strong for 2023 due to tight supplies and hopefully continued strong demand that has helped

U.S. Sees Record-High Beef Exports in 2022
By Macey Mueller Contributing Editor Continued strong beef demand in Japan, South Korea and China combined with efforts to expand and diversify international markets have

Nebraska Cattlemen Convention Skates Into Kearney
The NC Annual Business Meeting on Dec. 9 was concise and well attended. Everyone enjoyed a good visit at the conclusion; it was clear

Michael Bezner Adds to His Family’s Legacy: New TCFA Chairman Is a Benchmark for Independent Cattle Feeders
New TCFA Chairman Michael Bezner enjoys the challenges of running an independent feedyard and representing Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico yards in state and national

Gypsy Wagon February/March 2023
By Betty Jo Gigot, Publisher The weather outside turned frightful just as our staff started writing their stories and columns for this issue of CALF

BEYOND THE RANCH GATE: Weather or Not
By Blaine Davis Contributing Editor Looking across the dashboard of my “iron steed,” I discover a switch of uncertain function. Sliding it to the right,

Chaos Continues Post Mid-Term Elections
By Micky Burch, Contributing Writer Just when one thought the dust was about to settle on the mid-term elections with the Republicans taking back the

Whitt & Wisdom: The Thunberg Effect
By Jim Whitt Contributing Editor Years ago, I walked into a feed store displaying a sign that read, “Hire a teenager while they still

Rumblings From the Great White North: Fake Meat Business Falters
By Will Verboven Contributing Editor It wasn’t too many years ago when urban media headlines proclaimed the imminent demise of the “real” beef market in

Saltgrass Steakhouse
By Lance Geiger, The History Guy, Contributing Editor Named after Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, onetime colonial governor of Spanish Louisiana, the city