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Culling Never Ends Right Culling Program Can Boost Returns, Head Off Trouble Mon Nov 2, 2009 12:59 PM CST
The decision to cull open cows is based on more than short-term economics; it's with an eye toward building the best, most reproductive herd possible.
Ethanol's Promises - 4 Distillers Grain Sales Assist Ethanol Plants, Local Businesses Mon Nov 2, 2009 01:05 PM CST
Co-products from ethanol products such as distillers grain bring economic benefits to other local businesses, including livestock feeders and trucking companies.
What's the Score? What the Body Condition Score Can Tell You Mon Nov 2, 2009 01:05 PM CST
BCS is not just a key indicator of your cow's chances of rebreeding. It can also tell you how good a job she'll do raising her current calf.
Washington Insider Run-up to President's China Trip Mon Nov 2, 2009 01:10 PM CST
Agreements on U.S.-Chinese pork and poultry trade announced last week could be an important step in relations between the two countries, but difficult issues remain ahead of President Obama's trip to China in November.
Ask the Vet Retained Placenta Mon Nov 2, 2009 01:11 PM CST
I am a little confused about retained placentas. Can you help?
DTN Livestock Blog
So here comes a double dose of cold comfort: 1) the late year cash trade would be much more had it not been for some positive shifts in middle margins over the last several months; and 2) the greater confidence that these shifts imply, together with hints of actual demand improvement, suggest that market hogs will trade significantly higher through most of 2010.
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Inflammatory rhetoric seldom facilitates the reasoning process and rarely encourages the fair weighing of evidence. Yet when the first opinionated disc-jockey cranks up the volume, the responder has little choice to answer with his own boom box.
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Indeed, if the feeder market is generally on course, skewed only by a slightly faster than normal pace, I feel somewhat confident in predicting that a late year bottom is close at hand. It may have already come and gone.
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Don't buckle the harness of rationality too tightly around the market horse.
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