Tag: Column

Beef in the 2025 Consumer Landscape: Enduring Trends and New Patterns
By Megan Webb, Ph.D. Contributing Editor Heading into 2025, the American beef industry is proving resilient amid economic challenges and shifting consumer habits. Even

Keeping Them Fed
Keeping Them Fed By Chris McClure Contributing Editor The heater doesn’t work but the tires are good And there’s a bit of a bend there

ANTHRAX The Spores That Never Die
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor Anthrax has raised its ugly head once again, this time in Wyoming where several herds in Carbon County have been

Calf’s Featured Lady: Barbie Mickey
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor On any given day, Barbie Mickey can be found chasing cattle and kids, and juggling a sizeable bookkeeping job to

Trading and Volatility
By Chris McClure Contributing Editor Will Rogers once said, “An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.” I don’t claim

Cattle Trailers Are Rolling Beef Industry Billboards
By Megan Webb, Ph.D., Contributing Editor As fall rolls in, cattle producers are moving their herds from summer pastures to crop residues or dry lots

U.S. Election Very Important to Canada- Outcome Will Affect Cattle/Beef Trade
By Will Verboven, Contributing Editor Whenever there is an American presidential election, political anxiety seems to break out in Canada. That’s because, unbeknownst to most

Highway From Hell
By Blaine Davis, Contributing Editor Traversing again through the proverbial “ranch gate,” I am on another trip south to the Gulf Coast. This time to

The Xylazine Conundrum
By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor What is xylazine? In short, it’s a drug many of us will find on our vet supply shelf. We call

Gypsy Wagon October November 2024
By Betty Jo Gigot, Publisher Would you believe that, after some 15 years, I finally got to shake hands and have dinner with Will Verboven.