Cattle Features
Jolley: Five minutes with CJ Hunt, the perfect human diet and a great steak
We’ve all heard about the pop-diet gurus who push a vegetarian or near vegetarian diet on the public, usually by quoting each other as ‘trusted’ sources. That pop-science flick “Food, Inc.” traveled down that same well-worn path to perdition.
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USDA's Corbitt Wall - National Feeder Cattle Report - market returns to normal
Join us from the USDA Livestock and Grain Market News and Cattlenetwork.com for USDA Corbitt Wall's weekly market summary.
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Cattle ranch of the week: Ridder Hereford Ranch
Ridder Hereford Ranch celebrated its 100th year in the cattle business this year. Ridder Ranch is located west of Callaway in Nebraska's great Sandhills.
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Jolley: Five Minutes with Mark Pickering, hotel food supplies in Barbados
The day-time temperature in Kansas is starting to mellow out to the point where I’m not afraid of finding freeze-dried beef on the hoof out in the pasture.
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Jolley: Five minutes with Bruce Hafenfeld, NCBA’s policy man
I spent three full days in Denver talking with people at the Cattlemen’s Convention. I talked with people who didn’t want to say much, especially when they saw that yellow “press” ribbon hanging around my neck.
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Cattle ranch of the week: Gustin’s Diamond D Gelbvieh
Gustin's Diamond D Gelbvieh is located 11 miles south of Mandan, North Dakota on the west side of Highway 6. They started breeding Gelbvieh cattle in 1982 after having tried several other breeds.
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Jolley: Talking with Linda Crumley, one of the newest CBB board members
In early December, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced 40 appointments to the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board. “These appointees represent a cross-section of the beef industry, and I am confident that beef producers and importers of cattle, beef and beef products will be well-served by them,” he said.
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Beef Talk: grass & beef - the future?
One can only speculate, especially when it comes to the future. However, one item that is not speculation is the fact that we are changing.
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It's the Pitts: Wannabes
I see them at almost every sale I go to, people who for some reason think that the auction business is glamorous and that they want very much to be a part of it. I don’t know why auctions attract wannabes, but they do, like flies to cow pies.
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Jolley: Five Minutes with Bill Donald, incoming NCBA president
In just a few days, Bill Donald will pick up the reins of the big and occasionally unruly horse that’s the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Yeah, Bill Donald, one of the founding fathers of R-CALF.
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Jolley: Five Minutes With Craig Knowles And My Mid-Winter Caribbean Dream Job
I’m sitting in my office here in Kansas City, prepping for a trip to Denver for the Annual NCBA/CBB dustup. It’s freezing outside and my weather alert just sounded off. I looked at the message on its nasty little screen and it said “winter storm warning.”
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- A conversation with Dr. Jim Marsden about the safety of beef
- Traders evening up positions ahead of the weekend Friday
- Nearly 1,000 emaciated cattle found on N.M. ranch
- Ag groups assisting cattle operations affected by tornado
- NOAA: Get ready for a busy hurricane season
- NCBA Op-Ed: ADUFA/AGDUFA reauthorization advances in the House
- 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
- TSCRA works with sale barns to catch Houston cattle thief
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
