Do you believe in ghosts? How ‘bout angels, miracles, tarot cards? I grew up believin’ in heaven and all its assorted angelic inhabitants and their counterparts in the singed black hats. Reincarnation wasn’t taught in Sunday school, but we were encouraged to believe that souls existed.

On Feb. 7, 2021, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, filed the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act.

Although bull sale season is currently in full swing, in a few short months, producers will be putting their new investments to work during the prime rebreeding months for spring-calvers. 

The current outlook communications for the cattle and beef markets in 2021 are commonly optimistic – bullish. The underlying market fundamentals support this position.

My grandpa was a teenager during WWII. It wasn’t an easy time to grow up. His older brother was off to war, and he found himself doing the work of a grown man at an age when most boys are just entering high school. But, to ask him, he didn’t mind it much, especially when that work was cowboy work.

The Cattle Inventory report provides lots of information but does not answer one important question: What is the inventory of feeder cattle available to be placed in feedlots for finishing?