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Poll: Few readers affected by government shutdown

February 28, 2019

Only a few Progressive Cattleman readers’ operations were affected by the government shutdown earlier this year.

More companies jump on the alt meat bandwagon

February 28, 2019

Motif Ingredients, a Boston-based food company, launched on Feb. 26 with $90 million in Series A financing to provide next-generation alternative proteins and other ingredients to global food companies.

No more tariffs – for now

February 28, 2019

Carrie Veselka

President Donald Trump announced last week that he would be postponing the next round of duties on Chinese goods scheduled to go into effect March 1, thanks to a round of “productive” trade talks between U.S. and Chinese officials that has been taking place throughout the last month.

Programming a successful cow herd during gestation

February 27, 2019

Carrie Veselka

Creating a successful calf takes more than strong genetics and proper raising. Much of the influence on a calf’s development happens during gestation. That’s what South Dakota State University Extension Meat Science Specialist Amanda Blair and North Dakota State University Extension Specialist Janna Block told Cattlemen’s College attendees at the NCBA Convention and Trade Show in New Orleans in January.

Cattle inventory growth will eventually end

February 26, 2019

David P. Anderson

The USDA continues to catch up on reports stalled by the shutdown and, as part of catching up, released the January Cattle on Feed report on Friday, Feb. 22. The report has lost a little bit of its normal timeliness, but still contains a few interesting nuggets.

Don’t breed for the middle in calf value

February 26, 2019

Billy Whitehurst

Spring is on the horizon and will be here before we know it. There is talk of spring bull sales; calving is in full swing for many folks; and planning for the spring works has begun.

Catching up with cattle on feed data

February 26, 2019

Derrell S. Peel

The latest USDA Cattle on Feed report issued on Feb. 22 was delayed a month because of the federal government shutdown. The report showed December placements at 98 percent of one year earlier and marketings at 99 percent of last year, leading to a Jan. 1 on-feed total of 11.69 million head, 101.8 percent of the prior year.

Good luck, bad luck, no luck

February 25, 2019

Erica Louder

Maybe it’s my Celtic ancestry; maybe it’s my naivety; or maybe it’s just human nature – but I have always put a lot of sway in luck. When it comes to those of us in agriculture, I am hardly unique in my little superstitions.

I’m not in Idaho anymore

February 25, 2019

It was cold – painfully cold. The kind that instantly slaps you in the face, stiffens your coat and freezes your nose hairs. Horses were hunkered under trees, cattle were grouped up along fencelines, and anything smaller, or perhaps smarter, was nowhere in sight.

It never rains but it pours

February 25, 2019

Carrie Veselka

Australian producers are facing catastrophic losses of an estimated 500,000 head of cattle from torrential monsoon rains that have turned dry paddocks to rivers and washed stranded stock into the floods or left them smothered in lakes of mud.

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