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Mixed reactions to EPA’s decision on RFS
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will retain the current Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), turning down requests for a waiver due to high corn prices. As corn prices spiked in the face of this summer’s drought, livestock and food organizations, and some state governors, petitioned the EPA to temporarily suspend the RFS, which currently mandates that fuel companies use 13.2 billion gallons of biofuel this year.
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Farmland prices: Boom or bubble?
Can the trend in farm and ranch real estate prices continue? A new report from the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research examines current patterns in the price of U.S. land.
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Profit Tips: Equipment - Gate support
Cattle gates and posts in heavily used areas take a lot of stress and abuse.
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U.N. appointment positive for beef producers
Last month the United Nations announced the selection of Frank Mitloehner, PhD, to chair a committee within the U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization to measure and assess the environmental impacts of the livestock industry.
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Profit Tips: Management - Pricing cornstalk leases
How much should cattle producers pay for grazing crop residue this winter, and how should they negotiate a fair price with landowners?
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Profit Tips: Animal Health - Tips to manage mycotoxins
This year’s weather produced the right environment for mycotoxins in grain, creating the potential for animal-health problems.
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Profit Tips: Reproduction - Consider timing for repro vaccines
When a cow is in the chute for pregnancy checking, many cow-calf producers take advantage of the opportunity to perform other necessary procedures to get their cows ready for the winter and the subsequent calving season.
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Profit Tips: Animal Health - Use caution grazing cornstalks
Corn-stubble fields provide a cost-effective winter-grazing opportunity in a year of drought-induced feed shortages, but managers should take precautions to avoid acidosis that can occur when hungry cattle consume too much starch.
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Voters reject Proposition 37 and Measure 5
Voters in California and North Dakota rejected two ballot initiatives that were opposed by agriculture groups. Both measures generated interest from far outside those states from food advocates and animal rights activists.
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Where’s the beef from?
So how much of our beef actually comes from foreign sources? Researchers with USDA’s Economic Research Service explored that question in the recent report titled “U.S. red meat production from foreign-born animals,” published in the journal Agricultural Sciences.
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Profit Tips: Nutrition - Test your feeds this year
This year’s dry conditions have resulted in ranchers feeding lower-quality hay and, in many cases, turning to less conventional forage sources.
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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
- Agriculture is expected to remain strong in the coming decade
- What sick day? Farmers take just three a year
- Insects. They’re what’s for dinner!
