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National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) President J.D. Alexander expressed disgust following an announcement that the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) has formed a partnership with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to destroy more than 25 years of market development and consumer demand building by the Beef Checkoff Program.
The livestock industry is taking a direct hit from this summer’s drought and that will impact consumers’ wallets next year, says a University of Missouri agricultural economist.
“I expect to see food inflation, but it will take time,” said Scott Brown, research assistant professor in the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR).
“The short term effects will be fairly muted for the remainder of 2012, but we’re going to see food price increases in 2013 and maybe into 2014 because of this drought.”
Texas beef producers attending the 58th Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course in College Station looked intently at several maps depicting future weather patterns across the Lone Star State.
AgriLabs is introducing the Healthy Difference retail calf health information program to provide the calf raiser with timely educational tools relating to the health of newborn beef and dairy calves.
Producers know that the best breeding and feeding of their calves can’t overcome an unhealthy start. The Healthy Difference Program provides practical education and information – compiled by veterinarians – about how newborn calves can start and stay healthy from birth through weaning.
Two posthumous inductees were made into the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame in a ceremony held Aug. 1 in Denver, for Robert “Bob” Rebholtz, the founder of Agri Beef Co., and Willard R. Sparks, part-owner of Cattleco, LLC.
ImmuCell has launched the Immediate Immunity YouTube channel to help educate beef and dairy producers, veterinarians and the agricultural industry about newborn calf immunity.
This resource center offers management tips and industry research.
Beef and dairy producers can also hear firsthand from other producers and veterinarians how they provide immediate immunity to their calves at birth.
Soybeans that won't make a seed crop offer potential high-quality forage for beef and dairy producers. But the decision to cut beans for hay won't be easy, say University of Missouri Extension specialists.
As of the end of July, USDA-NASS reported 57 percent of the U.S. pasture and range as poor or very poor (the two worst categories and essentially requiring significant supplemental feed or worse).
At the same time last year, the massive Southern Plains centered drought resulted in a national poor and very poor rating of about 35 percent.
Widespread deterioration in crop and pasture conditions made 2011 the worst U.S. drought since 1988.
Restocking after a drought can be a difficult call: Is the drought over, is there enough forage to sustain cattle, what makes the most economic sense?The answers to these and other questions will be discussed at the Texas AgriLife Extension Service’s Ranch Management University scheduled Oct. 29 – Nov. 2 at the G. Rollie White Visitor’s Center on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station.
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