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A wider price gap between Select grade boxed beef and Choice or better—the Choice/Select spread—always comes back to supply and demand. Consumers vote with their dollars, and recent shifts in merchandising put much more high-quality beef on the ballot, just as those supplies began to fall off.
October was another excellent month for U.S. beef exports, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).
The changing dynamic of technology in agriculture will require cattle producers to stay ahead in the innovation game, especially with the use of vaccinations in protecting their calf crop.
Cattle producers should use caution when blaming ethanol production for dramatic increase in feed corn prices seen over the past seven years, according to Ted Schroeder, an agriculture economist at Kansas State University.
Even though today’s consumers are more cautious than ever in how they spend their retail dollar, beef producers have a solid opportunity for profit growth due to the shrinking supply of beef.
The federal government’s ban on horse slaughter in the U.S. died quietly on the budgeting table on Nov. 18, after Congress chose to end a prohibition on horse slaughter plant inspections.
The federal government’s ban on horse slaughter in the U.S. died quietly on the budgeting table on Nov. 18, after Congress chose to end a prohibition on horse slaughter plant inspections. The ban started in 2006, and was criticized by western ranchers, land users and even some animal rights groups as a failed policy that added to neglect of unwanted horses.
Eating horses may not be popular in America, but the U.S. horse-slaughter industry is making a comeback.
A recently passed bill that lifts what amounted to a five-year ban domestic horse slaughter has readied the federal government to resume inspections of U.S. slaughterhouses, should they reopen.
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