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Grass fever greens cow and heifer prices

April 19, 2019

Turn-out ready stockers and replacement cows lead the price charge.

What is regenerative grazing?

April 16, 2019

The short answer is regenerative agriculture repairs the soil. The long answer is more complicated.

How to match livestock to your forage resources

April 17, 2019

Basic math with some knowledge can provide the answers you need about stocking rates for pasture and crop ground.

What's changing about distillers' grains?

March 5, 2019

Distillers are getting the fat out, but the biggest losers will be feeders and backgrounders.

Consider the no-depreciation cow-calf operation

June 22, 2017

Unlike many assets, cows actually appreciate in value for a while, and you could capture that as profit.

Meager margins versus plentiful profits

April 3, 2019

Management decisions are the basis for eliminating many of our problems, including a lack of profit.

Cargill announces results for third quarter 2019

April 11, 2019

Adjusted operating earnings across Cargill’s four business segments were below the year-ago level.

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Beefs and Beliefs

Here's how grassfed beef really could be superior

April 3, 2019

New thinking says look beyond just the proteins and the fats.

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Things we can do to cleanse our water

April 17, 2019

Author thinks healthier soil would go a long way toward curing our nation's water-quality woes.

Amazon dips its web services toe into agriculture

March 28, 2019

It’s not selling tractors or seed online yet, but the world’s leading online merchandiser is marketing web services for agribusiness and other...

Grass tetany has a complex solution

March 19, 2019

Researchers keep adding layers of understanding to the solutions to tetany.

Thinking might be the hard part

April 10, 2019

Learn to grow plenty of grass and set up a malleable cow-calf operation to be more profitable.

Bankers want producers who use price protection

March 4, 2019

Relatively pricey cattle and wildly swinging markets have bankers on edge.

Native grasses win performance tests

April 1, 2019

More than one study shows good gains and low costs from native forages.

Weeds

New pasture herbicide coming soon

Corteva Agriscience submits new pasture herbicide to EPA and expects registration this year.

Stop spraying and clipping weeds

With good grazing management, you can get use from these plants you now see as problems.

Animal Health Notebook

Are you an average producer?

April 16, 2019

Here are three ways to classify beef producers, or any other producer in any industry.

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