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Get Back Into What Game?
Wed Sep 8, 2010 03:01 PM CDT
The Times analyzes the engines of livestock marketing and meat production as if it were reviewing some B-Western filmed in the 1930's. Good and evil are perfectly matched with white and black cowboy hats, and unambiguous virtue is saddled to triumph in the final reel.
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Have It Your Way, Brazil
Fri Sep 3, 2010 06:21 PM CDT
It was not surprising to recently learn that Burger King was "in play," and only slightly more unexpected to see the troubled powerhouse sell to a private equity firm as early as Wednesday. Indeed, 3G Capital Management gobbled up the deal like it was the most delicious Whopper ever flame-broiled.
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Japanese Demographics and U.S. Beef
Wed Sep 1, 2010 04:18 PM CDT
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
Fri Aug 27, 2010 05:30 PM CDT
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
Wed Aug 25, 2010 05:27 PM CDT
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
Wed Aug 18, 2010 03:22 PM CDT
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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A Stronger Yen for U.S. Beef
Fri Aug 13, 2010 05:38 PM CDT
If selling beef to Japan was only a matter of quality and price, we couldn't find enough cargo ships to handle the business.
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Meat Inspector Strangelove
Fri Aug 6, 2010 06:21 PM CDT
Sometimes I think the Cold War is alive and well, only fought with meat inspectors instead of mad nuclear scientists.
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Steering the Titanic?
Thu Aug 5, 2010 05:54 PM CDT
The sad reality of sinking checkoff budgets makes me wonder if squabbling cattlemen have taken their eye off the ball.
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30-Month-Old Breast Implants
Fri Jul 30, 2010 07:04 PM CDT
How do you say "U.S. beef is safe to eat" in Japanese?
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Shoring Up The Leaky Dike of MPR
Thu Jul 29, 2010 04:08 PM CDT
With mandatory price reports scheduled to expire on September 30, the clock is definitely ticking on the much-needed repairs noted by Senator Grassley. I vigorously applaud the first two proposals, the former a bit more than the latter.
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Better Late Than Never
Thu Jul 22, 2010 06:03 PM CDT
There are signs this week that fundamentals have turned a big corner in the hog market.
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Japan's Twisted Diet
Fri Jul 16, 2010 02:47 PM CDT
The "twisted diet" in question has nothing to do with eel sushi and everything to do with Japanese politics. This phrase is now being used to describe the new division of power within Japan's government.
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Political Extensions
Thu Jul 15, 2010 01:54 PM CDT
Understanding what is going on in Washington isn't the same as liking it.
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Is That Barbecue Sauce On Your Shirt Or Just Red Ink?
Fri Jul 9, 2010 01:42 PM CDT
John Harrington reminds us that no one too scared to buy a ticket ever wins the lottery and the cattle market has never been a game for the faint-hearted.
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Putting Lassie Down
Thu Jul 8, 2010 01:48 PM CDT
It's time to exercise much-delayed wisdom by putting belly futures and the morning hog report down.
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JBS Hikes Captive Supplies
Thu Jul 1, 2010 03:19 PM CDT
Brazil's JBS, the world's largest beef producer, is buying an Arizona feedyard. What does that mean for negotiated cash prices?
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The High Cost of Predictability
Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:44 AM CDT
Private forecasters seem to have gotten very good at accurately predicting the government's quarterly census of U.S. swine population. So how are they doing it?
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Kissing Your Sister
Wed Jun 23, 2010 05:56 PM CDT
It's always a matter of alternatives. That's why cattle feeders are feeling pretty good this week about trading steers and heifers at steady money (i.e., $91 in the South, mostly $146 in the North).
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Painfully Cautious Optimism Concerning China
Fri Jun 18, 2010 03:24 PM CDT
While we can all think of a billion and a half reasons why these indefinite stories sizzle, there is still little concrete evidence to suggest that Chinese beef buying will explode anytime soon.
