USDA has pegged the losses of unpaid cattle sales at more than $131 million involved in the Eastern Livestock Co. financial collapse. However, people in the cattle industry haven’t seen a plan on how to untangle the mess of cattle sales, or heard just how Eastern Livestock began its spiral downward.
USDA got tons of responses to its request for public input on its pending GIPSA rule.
Your reporter devoted several hours of his holiday weekend to trying to find a pattern. Maybe it’s just me and my preconceived notions, but what I think I see is that a high percentage of the support for the changes comes from a few cattle producers, a lot of city folks—no few of them women for some reason—and quite a few people who say they were poultry farmers who got abused by integrators.
Management impacts on marbling actually begin prior to an animal’s birth, as inadequate passive immune transfer at birth becomes an important factor in an animal’s susceptibility of bovine respiratory disease (Galyean et al., 1999). Management and nutrition practices that keep cattle from becoming sick are very important because diagnosis of cattle with respiratory diseases is very difficult.
South Dakota State University assistant professor Amanda Weaver received the 2010 New Teacher award at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities annual meeting in Dallas.
A pair of Nebraska ranchers has been breeding miniature cattle for the past 16 years, saying their rare breed results in better temperament and better meat.
When they introduced their miniature Herefords on their ranch near Tekamah, Ali and Kenny Petersen said they were the laughingstock of the area.
When the 2008 Farm Bill was signed into law, it included language directing USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration to establish new criteria for the U.S. secretary of agriculture to consider in determining whether an undue or unreasonable preference had occurred in violation of the Packers and Stockyards Act.
The Southwest Beef Symposium jointly hosted by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service is scheduled for Jan. 18-19 in the Grand Plaza Room of the Amarillo Civic Center, 401 S Buchanan St., Amarillo.