CALF_News_Oct_Nov_2018

4 CALF News • October | November 2018 • www.calfnews.net  OCT. | NOV. 2018 Highlights On the Web www.calfnews.net Highlights  Original, informative content  Cattle industry news updates Go Mobile Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/ calfnews/ Twitter  https://twitter.com/#calfnews YouTube  www.youtube.com/CALFnews Advertising Jessica Ebert National Account Manager (785) 477-1941 jebert@blueprintma.com Features In Every Issue 5 Gypsy Wagon 22 Chuteside Manner 51 Recollections 52 Baxter Black 53 Index of Advertisers 54 Where’s the Really Exceptional Beef? Subscription Request Form  New  Renewal  Address Change Domestic  1 Yr $40  2 Yrs $70  3 Yrs $90 New Foreign (Send U.S. funds—U.S. Bank only)  1 Yr $50  2 Yrs $90  3 Yrs $120 Name Firm Name Street City State Zip Phone No. e-mail  Commercial Feeder 1,000 to 5,000 head annual marketings  5,000 to 10,000 head annually  10,000 to 20,000 head annually  20,000 to 40,000 head annually  40,000 plus head annually  Stocker/Feeder operator  Cow/Calf operator  Other Please enclose old magazine label. Send check, money order or U.S. funds BluePrint Media P.O. Box 292, Lodi, WI 53555 Opinions 10 Rumblings From the Great White North 11 Looking Ahead 12 All In 14 Whitt & Wisdom 42 Beyond the Ranch Gate 6 What’s New? From a generic greeting to a the latest and greatest in your business, the question “What’s new?” is a good one to ask. Cover Story 32 Caviness Beef Packers Considering itself one of the “most relationship-oriented companies in the beef industry,” Caviness Beef Packers has three generations of expertise behind it. 28 Airwave Maven Award-winning farm broadcaster Susan Littlefield has lived in Nebraska’s airwaves for 20 years. 24 The Full Package Phelps County Feeders has come full circle – starting as a feedyard to now managing restaurants and selling specialized beef products over the internet.