BeefTalk
BeefTalk: Meat, fat, size and quality
Meat, fat, carcass size and carcass quality are four factors in the beef industry that never go away. One could even say this is why the beef industry exists.
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BeefTalk: $1.43 short
Have you ever been shorted by $1.43? It is quite irritating, especially if one is not talking candy bars.
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BeefTalk: Like begets like
The bull-buying season is upon us and all cow-calf producers need bulls. The Dickinson Research Extension Center also buys bulls annually.
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BeefTalk: Let’s buy a bull
Bull sales are well under way. For those getting ready to buy bulls for the upcoming breeding season, the data available to make buying decisions has not changed a lot.
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BeefTalk: The uphill battle of expanding the cow business
Should we think about data or just ponder? That is the question. With the holiday season quickly slowing us down, now is a good time to ponder and maybe let the data rest for a bit.
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BeefTalk: The cows say thank you and so should we
What does it mean to say thank you? Sometimes the ability to say it is not easy. Some quickly would say that’s ridiculous. However, we all probably could agree that people are different in how they express their feelings and emotions.
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BeefTalk: Culling rate is not just for cows
There are two very noticeable expenses in the beef business. The most obvious is feed and the one most often forgotten is animal replacement.
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BeefTalk: Did you learn anything?
A hot topic in agriculture is generational transfer. It starts the day the heir is born. So why live in denial?
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BeefTalk: First-cycle conception has been remarkably stable
The percentage of cows that have calved in the first 21 days of the calving season for the last decade was 58, 60, 61, 62, 64, 64, 64, 64, 63 and 61 percent.
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BeefTalk: Calving distribution key to reproductive success
Right now, cows are calving 88.8 percent of the time within the first 42 days of the calving season. That is good, so hats off to progressive cattle managers.
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BeefTalk: Pregnancy and calving percentages are stable
The main point is that the components of reproduction are very hard to pull out and fix. However, the sum of the pieces produces a calf at least 93.6 percent of the time for CHAPS (Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software) producers.
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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
