Lately if you’ve driven in some of our rural areas you might have noticed amber waves of grain in some fields. What you were seeing is milo, which is also called grain...
In the U.S., we import and export beef. The beef we import has little or no tariffs, depending on what kind of trade agreement we...
The first National Beef Quality Audit was done in 1991 and has continued to be conducted every five years. Funded by beef check-off dollars from producers, it’s an...
Just twenty-five years ago, U.S. beef exports were so small that they had little effect on beef prices. Today we export ten percent of our beef, or...
While the lifting of the ban on U.S. beef exports to China is something for producers to celebrate, the growth of those exports is expected...
In 2003, when the U.S. detected one case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly referred to as BSE or mad cow disease in a...
Genetic research and selective breeding in beef production have been responsible for the positive eating experience many of...
Back in the fall of 2015, cattle prices plummeted and the low beef prices continued during 2016. Now that we’re about half way through 2017,...
When commodity prices are low as they are now, about the only strategy a farmer can have is to do everything possible to produce a...
Sometimes a farmer can do everything right, but it doesn’t matter because Mother Nature intervenes and bad things happen.
While our May rains were very beneficial to most row crops, some of the cool days we enjoyed in May mixed in with the rains have caused...
If you’ve driven through some of the rural parts of our area and noticed amber waves of grain blowing in the breeze, it’s winter wheat that hasn’t...
The current Farm Bill was passed in 2014 and work on the 2018 Farm Bill began last year.
Many proponents of manmade global warming have targeted beef and cattle production as one of the top...
With a new administration in Washington as well as a new director of the Environmental Protection Agency agricultural...
When someone is elected to the State House of Representatives, he or she is allowed to request the committees...
As work continues on the upcoming 2018 Farm Bill opponents to any government support of agriculture are...
Opponents to any government support of agriculture paint the farm bill as an unnecessary handout to farmers.
