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Future of food discussion with Agriculture Secretary
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was a featured guest on a recent web forum on food and agriculture issues.
USDA | May 23, 2013
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was a featured guest on a recent web forum on food and agriculture issues.
USDA | May 23, 2013
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How high do you expect Choice Boxed Beef prices to reach this summer?
STERLING PROFIT TRACKER
- Packer margins jump higher, feeding margins bleak
- Cattle feeding losses exceed $100, packers in the black
- Feeding margins take a step backwards, packing margins improve
- Feeding, packing margins continue improvement
- Margins improve for cattle feeders, packers
- Losses increase for cattle feeders and packers
MARKETS
- Oil prices pare losses on U.S. equities turnaround
- Ag markets diverged prove rather volatile on Thursday
- Corn futures relapse in wake of Wednesday's rally
- Wet U.S. Midwest sections may lead to fewer corn acres
- Exports: Corn plunges 52 percent
- Here is the next farm program and here’s how you work it
PROFIT TIPS
- Profit Tips: Equipment - Easy pen access
- Profit Tips: Pasture Management - Consider seeding legumes
- Profit Tips: Cow-Calf - Decisions on calf implants
- Profit Tips: Facilities - Water improvements during drought
- Profit Tips: Equipment - Easy trailer hookup
- Profit Tips: Cattle Feeding - The value of carcass gain
WEATHER
- Where’s the rain? Parched states can’t shake the drought
- Weather report: Very cool in the Corn Belt
- Weather report: Thunderstorms dot the southern Plains
- Weather report: Rain spreads across the Corn Belt
- Weather report: Thundershowers in the upper Midwest
- Drought far from over in western plains
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- YSA members gain insight into agribusiness, retail industries
- Meat industry associations quick to attack the new MCOOL rule
- Team up against bovine respiratory disease
- Oil prices pare losses on U.S. equities turnaround
- Future of food discussion with Agriculture Secretary
- Ag markets diverged prove rather volatile on Thursday
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
