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Commentary: Eat, drink and be meaty
Looking for a unique approach to marketing meat products? How about cocktails that are made with meat or poultry? It doesn’t get any better than that. Here are some of the best and booziest.
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Commentary: Demented diets
Red meat consumption has been accused of being the course of all evil, nutritionally speaking. Now, veggie advocates are upping the ante with warnings about meat causing dementia.
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Keystone XL oil pipeline bill moves to full U.S. House
The full U.S. House of Representatives will soon begin debate on a bill to approve the Canada-to-Nebraska Keystone XL oil pipeline, a lawmaker said on Thursday after his panel advanced the measure.
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Graders get it right
The accuracy of USDA Feeder Cattle Grade Standards is high, according to a recent study.
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NAHMS feedlot reports indicate informational opportunities
Cattle feeders strongly believe in the effectiveness of pre-arrival management practices such as weaning vaccines, parasite control and weaning four weeks prior to shipment, but they often do not have access to management history on cattle they feed. That’s one example of opportunities for improvements in information sharing and education revealed in a new feedlot report from the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) a division of APHIS Veterinary Services.
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Senate panel approves farm bill that expands crop insurance
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a $500 billion farm bill on Tuesday that would expand spending on the federally subsidized crop insurance program by 10 percent and trim spending slightly on food stamps for the poor.
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Commentary: Slanting the statistics
Calling cattle the No. 1 problem with global warming is a favorite tactic of NGOs with an openly anti-production ag agenda. But the numbers on CO2 emissions need to be put in perspective.
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Where was the most expensive burger produced? A science lab
A doctor in the Netherlands has put a lot of work into creating a hamburger constructed with pieces of beef muscle grown in a lab. The end product is a five-ounce piece of meat which may be cooked at an event in London as soon as this summer.
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Agriculture is expected to remain strong in the coming decade
USDA projections indicate optimism for the agriculture industry.
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U.S. Plains' farmland values rise 20 percent
Farmland values in the U.S. Plains states rose 20 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, with acreage commanding record prices because of red-hot demand for cropland in the world's biggest food exporter.
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How often can cattle feeders hedge a profit with futures?
Twenty years of data from 1993-2012 were analyzed to determine the percent of trading days during calf and yearling feeding periods that live cattle futures (LCF) – adjusted for an expected basis – were above the cost of producing fed cattle.
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- New school lunch beef recipes win approval from kids, foodservice
- Prices for corn and soybeans, five years from now
- Drier weather to give big boost to U.S. corn plantings
- The relationship between retail gasoline prices and futures prices
- Domestic ethanol production starts to grow again
- Agriculture is expected to remain strong in the coming decade
