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Pasture and range conditions improve
Significant rains that have occurred in North Dakota and neighboring states in the Northern Plains the last three weeks have improved pasture and range conditions. Each Monday afternoon USDA-NASS releases a Crop Progress Report which shows state pasture and range conditions with a percentage rating in categories of very poor, poor, fair, good, and excellent. The first pasture and range conditions of the 2013 season were released for the week ending May 5 in the May 6 report.
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Commentary: On the meaning of ‘natural’
We love the term, especially if it’s plastered on the front of our food packaging. But if we drill down a bit, we discover that the term ‘natural’ has different meanings for different products.
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Steak Competition returning to the American Royal
The American Royal Association announced today that the second annual American Royal Steak Competition Winner will be announced at their 2013 Grapes & Steaks Competition on Oct. 9, 2013.
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Don’t let Trich sneak up on your herd
Producers who don’t keep an eye on their herd, paying close attention to calving numbers and herd sizes, may be allowing a serious disease to sneak up on their herd.
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Expert offers tips to reduce hay-drying time
While producers might find it challenging to get hay dry in early June due to changing weather conditions, there are steps they can take to get the crop up quickly and reduce the potential for rain damage, a forage expert with Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences says.
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Corn conditions a tad better than last year
This year may be wetter than 2012 for some Corn Belt states, but that doesn’t mean corn conditions are much better.
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Commentary: Clueless consumers
To counter the negativity media keeps repeating, producers need to step up but talk down to their audience. As if they have no idea about how animals are raised. Which they don’t.
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Buckle your seatbelt for the House consideration of the farm bill
The farm bill had a cakewalk through the Senate two weeks ago. Now it is swimming in a swamp infested with crocodiles as it tries to survive in the House of Representatives.
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Ag markets seem set to start this week on a downbeat
Early Monday the grain complex traded according to old and new crop conditions in a pattern similar to that seen last week.
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Commentary: Severely ticked off
Summertime, and the livin’ ain’t so easy—not if you’re a resident of one of the most exclusive stretches of real estate on the Eastern Coast, and you enjoy the outdoors, and you eat meat.
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Schwieterman: Cattle futures, cash trade bad and worse
Live cattle futures closed moderately to sharply lower on Friday, dropping the August contract to losses of 1.00 for the week.
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