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For cattle producers, the spring usually means it’s time for calves to be born.
However, this is also the time that other young are born – and that includes pests.
Listening to Linda Davis talk to a room full of cattle producers at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Cattlemen’s College, you easily get the impression there’s no crisis that cannot be conquered.
Whether it be drought, high prices, sick cattle, political opposition, the Depression, world war or the heavy loss of loved ones, Davis has seen most of it in her 83 years on the New Mexico range. Now her wisdom is as telling as ever.
Progressive Forum is a compilation of viewpoints from cattle producers on a given topic. Hear what those with boots on the ground have to say about the issues.
How will Japan’s expansion for U.S. beef create export opportunities for you?
Growing global demand for protein, combined with depreciating South American currencies, assisted the Mercosur countries, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay (which is currently suspended) and Uruguay to substantially improve beef exports in 2012. Overall, exports were up 12 percent year-on-year to 1.5 million metric tons (MT).
The Brazilian real depreciated 14 percent year-on-year in 2012, and combined with increased Brazilian production, assisted the price competitiveness of Brazilian beef on the global market.
Brazilian beef exports increased a whopping 15 percent year-on-year to 945,482 MT, with Russia the major market accounting for 27 percent of total exports.
Communicating is still not easy, even with all of the modern options technology has given us.
Mobile phones, Skype, text messaging, video conferencing – the list goes on and I’m sure they will continue to expand rapidly in this tech-savvy age.
We have no reason not to stay in touch with all the gadgets.
The effects of the drought of 2012 have generated both financial and animal health challenges for the cattle industry.
As drought continues in many areas across the country this winter and spring, cattle producers need to manage the health of their animals at a higher level, including the impact of internal parasites.
The tall grass prairie of the Flint Hills region in Kansas is one of the last untouched grazing areas of what was once over 140 million acres that extended from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
As a man’s marriage matures, his attitude toward going shopping evolves.
• Before marriage: When a man first dates a woman, he tries to hide the fact that they have absolutely nothing in common.
Even though the only shopping he likes is for guns, tractors, trucks, tools, horses and bulls, he tries to fake it by saying that yes, he’d love to go stand around while she shops in Victoria’s Secret and holds up underwear for his approval.
