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Colin Woodall, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), told producers at the Texoma Cattlemen’s Conference that beef interests are hitting a high peak of negotiations headed into the summer, as they relate to transport rules, the farm bill, export trade and beef labeling.
Challenges facing rangeland managers in the western U.S. have never been greater. Contemporary problems, including expansion of exotic annual grasses such as cheatgrass and the associated increase in wildfire, impact most of the western U.S.
With shrinking margins caused by the influx of dairy cull cows into the beef market and recent increases in the protein markets, feeders are forced once again to find low-cost alternatives to their feeding program.
Some say, “A carpenter’s house is never finished.” I’d say it’s a similar situation with cattlemen. Often, it’s their own facilities and equipment that are the last to be maintained or repaired.
A freezer full of homegrown beef is the rancher’s bounty – and a lot of ranchers who finish an animal for themselves often do so for friends and neighbors as well.
My wonderful wife is the picture of perfect health, with only one known ailment: She suffers from what is known in the medical community as “white coat syndrome.”
He cracks the bedroom door open, just an inch or two, and hears her discussing with the 2-year-old the civil rights of the roan horse and the heeler dog, and why they have to sleep outside.
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