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Troy Marshall, Contributing Editor
I spent the first part of this week at NAILE in Louisville; as could be expected, there were cattlemen attending from every part of the country. What I found striking was how different their attitudes varied, depending on the circumstances each producer found himself in.
Everyone, of course, is marveling at the higher cattle prices and the opportunity to experience one of those once-in-a-lifetime boom times that the other commodity groups have enjoyed. As one veteran cattleman told me: "This is the one time where the cattle may actually pay for the land."
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I'm not saying that agriculture is going to become a major economic driver for our nation's economy. Nor do I contend that urban America is destined for decline (though I think I could make a pretty convincing argument for it). But, I do believe that rural America embodies many of the values that have made this country great and will make it great again.
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Many of you reading these words judged livestock in 4-H or FFA; some of you competed at the junior college or senior college levels. And, if you truly devoted your attention to the activity and stuck it out for any time at all, I will wager that you likely consider the experience as one of the most valuable in your life.
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Thanksgiving Day is upon us, a time of tradition, turkey and family. However, while turkey and all the trimmings is the traditional Thanksgiving meal, many cattlemen choose to honor the holiday with a meal of succulent beef. This week's online poll question at beefmagazine.com is "Which protein do you plan to have on your Thanksgiving table?"
- Turkey
- Beef
- Neither
- Don't know
By the way, last week's poll posed the question: "Do you agree with USDA's revised GIPSA rule?" With more than 150 total votes, the majority (49%) said "Yes. The original version would have harmed the industry's progress in value-based marketing," while 31% said "No. The watered-down rule doesn't protect smaller producers." Another 16% didn't know. Thanks for participating.
Joe Roybal, Editor
More than 90% of BEEF readers reject the U.S. ban on horse slaughter and believe it is bad for both horses and horse owners. That was the overwhelming result of an email survey sent to 20,000 BEEF subscribers last Friday that posed the question: "As a beef producer, do you favor the U.S. ban on horse slaughter?"
Of 1,443 total responses (a 7.2% response rate), 90.5% disapproved of the ban, while just 4.9% favored the ban. Another 4.7% indicated they "didn't know."
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Fiscal Year 2011 Brings Profits to Angus Producers
Angus producers experienced economic growth in fiscal year 2011 despite a volatile agriculture industry. Bull sale averages increased nearly 26.6% above last year, and overall sale averages increased 20.8%. Angus members registered 294,975 animals in FY 2011, which ended Sept. 30.
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Jason Henderson and Maria Akers, Kansas City Federal Reserve, Omaha Branch
Farmland values in the states encompassed by the Kansas City Federal Reserve surged to a record high in the third quarter, with stronger gains in the Northern Plains. District cropland values rose more than 25% over the past year, and ranchland values increased 14%. Furthermore, a quarter of survey respondents felt that cropland values had yet to peak.
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Rosalie Marion Bliss, Ag Research Service information specialist
USDA scientists and their collaborators have conducted a series of studies that explore non-antibiotic methods to reduce food-borne pathogens that are found in the gut of food animals.
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Chris Reinhardt, KSU Extension beef specialist
Body condition score (BCS) on a beef cow is the closest thing we have to a dipstick for determining, at a glance, her nutritional status. But scoring cows properly and really benefiting from this tool requires a bit more effort and observation than simply looking and thinking, "They look a little thin."
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Burt Rutherford, Senior Editor
If it's true that all good things must come to an end and what the government giveth, the government can also taketh away, then producers who haven't yet looked into the advantages of the Section 179 tax deductions need to act quickly. Those deductions, while they don't go away, will be scaled back for 2012.
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The modern age of cattle feeding began in the 1960s and '70s, when many of the leaders in animal science academia were rooted in production agriculture. Because of this intersection of the ag background of academic researchers and the novel problems arising throughout the growing feedlot industry, pioneering production research was initiated at the university level, which the animal production industry eagerly absorbed and adopted. Funding for this research was largely provided by state and federal grants, with supplemental research dollars provided by pharmaceutical industry grants to conduct research required for approval of products by the FDA.
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