Advancing animal agriculture

Following the National Institute for Animal Agriculture’s annual conference in Denver, Scott Stuart, the organization’s managing director, offers his observations from the program.

1. Got Milk? How much is too much?
2. E85 consumption remains the same despite incentives
3. Ag markets moved mostly higher Wednesday morning
4. Wet conditions threaten hay crop as harvest is delayed
5. UNL crop-residue presentations available online
6. Cow slaughter through May likely to exceed same period in 2012

1. Will Smith dethroned in latest Peterson Farm Bros. parody
2. 3,000 pounds of copper wire stolen from Oklahoma ranch
3. Changes in U.S.-Mexican cattle and beef trade
4. Crude oil expected to peak and cost of electricity to go down
5. Peterson Brothers: What summer vacation?
6. Experts weigh in on lowest beef supply in 60 years

1. COOL isn’t working
2. Feedyard margins a train wreck, packers cozy
3. New ads emphasize agriculture’s role in economic recovery
4. 2100: 11 billion mouths to feed
5. New tools emerging to measure soil health
6. Changes in U.S.-Mexican cattle and beef trade