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Uniformity is the key when selling cattle via a camera lens. (DTN/Progressive Farmer photo by Larry Fleming)

Cyber Sale Barn Secrets to Success in Video Auctions Mon Aug 30, 2010 09:39 AM CDT
Joe Lichtie remembers Superior Livestock's first live video auction. It was 1987, at the Western Stock Show and some 20,000 head changed hands that day. "All the big players were there," recalls Lichtie. "They all sat there, bidding, watching the sale. But when we left the sale barn that day, 85% of the cattle had been sold over the phone to someone not physically at the sale. They had watched the animals on a satellite broadcast. That really opened some eyes."

The winning steer at the 2010 Iowa State Fair 4-H Market Beef Show is a clone of the steer crowned champion at the Iowa State Fair in 2008 (inset). (Photos courtesy of the Iowa State Fair)

Cloned Steer Wins State Fair Steer Demonstrates Clones Can Provide Benefits Mon Aug 30, 2010 09:41 AM CDT
The father of the boy who showed the champion 4-H steer at this year's Iowa State Fair says the results show cloning works and can provide results. While the industry now keeps a voluntary moratorium on food from cloned livestock entering the food chain, it's possible clones or their progeny can help provide more protein in the future.

Attorney General Eric Holder (left) and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack talk about agricultural competition issues during a press conference at the USDA-Department of Justice livestock meeting in Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)

Market Balance GIPSA Debate Rocks Cattle Industry Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:14 AM CDT
About 1,300 people showed up for Friday's meeting in Fort Collins, Colo., on livestock competition. Comments made at the meeting will be factored into the public comment period for the proposed GIPSA rule.

: Using whole-kernel corn to help boost Body Condition Scores is fine, but don't feed more than 4 or 5 pounds a day. (DTN/Progressive Farmer photo by Jim Patrico)

Ask the Vet Putting Weight Back On Cows After a Hard Summer Mon Aug 30, 2010 09:45 AM CDT
How can you plump up cows before calving after a hot, stressful summer?

"Thinning left the ground open for weeds," explains Andy Andreasen. "But the cattle grazed the weeds along with volunteer grasses and helped us manage the understory. (Progressive Farmer image by Becky Mills)

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Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:22 AM CDT
Andy Andreasen already had planned to graze cattle under his pine trees after the trees were thinned in 2004. When a tornado from Hurricane Ivan thinned them again six months later, the plan became a necessity.

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Japanese Demographics and U.S. Beef 9/1 4:18PM

The U.S. faces two new challenges in growing Japanese beef demand: a falling birth rate in Japan, and a rising average life expectancy of Japanese citizens.

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Pork Processors Pooh-Pooh Politics 8/27 5:30PM

The weeks leading up to today's livestock competition meeting on the Colorado State campus constituted a rhetorical minefield. Much of the scatter bombing has been long on explosive power and short on precision targeting.

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The Cattle Dashboard 8/25 5:27PM

USDA's new "cattle dashboard" may be just what the doctor ordered for numbers junkies.

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Pork Producers Pay Price For U.S. Duplicity 8/18 3:22PM

U.S. pork producers will be hurt by Mexican tariffs on U.S. pork products and they have the government's refusal to comply to a NAFTA clause to thank.

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