– Andrew P. Griffith, University of Tennessee FED CATTLE: Fed cattle traded steady to $1 higher compared to a week ago on a live basis. Prices on a live basis were mainly $127 to $128 while dressed prices were mainly $205 to $206. The 5-area weighted average prices thru Thursday were $127.94 live, up $1.18 [...]
– Rory Lewandowski, OSU Extension Educator, Wayne County and Stan Smith, OSU Extension PA, Fairfield County As trampled and pocked up winter feeding areas begin to dry out, consider all the alternatives that will allow these beat up paddocks to recover and become productive again. Ohio’s roads and highways aren’t the only things that have [...]
Don’t miss Ohio’s premier beef cattle event, March 16-18! The Ohio Beef Expo, the premier event of Ohio’s beef industry, will take place March 16-18 at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus, Ohio. This annual event, coordinated by the Ohio Cattlemen’s Association (OCA), includes a kickoff social; breed sales, shows and displays; an educational seminar; [...]
– Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension Service I enjoy pondering over numbers collected from the Dickinson Research Extension Center beef herds. One number I ponder over, for example, is cow size and how it relates to carcass size. Just like the industry, the discussion of cow size is complex, and pondering includes searching for [...]
– Josh Maples, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University Wherever you get your news, you likely couldn’t avoid hearing a particular T word last week: tariffs. On the heels of the announcement that the U.S. will impose a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports, [...]
– Victor Shelton, NRCS State Agronomist/Grazing Specialist Mud . . . not good for man or beast. It wasn’t too long ago that you were hearing that some parts of the state were actually still in drought status. I believe it is safe to say, without even looking it up, that that is no longer [...]
– Brian R. Williams, Assistant Extension Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University The United States Department of Agriculture held its annual Agricultural Outlook Forum a couple of weeks ago in which many topics relevant to the agricultural industry were discussed at length. Topics of discussion ranged from trade to regulation and from policy [...]
Coincidental or not, consumer beef demand continues stronger than many expected, amid growing total supplies of red meat and poultry, as the percentage of cattle grading USDA Choice and higher continues to grow. For instance, according to USDA, for the week ending Feb. 24, the percentage of cattle grading USDA Prime continued at a record [...]
A national coalition convened by the Noble Research Institute announced its intent to create a new voluntary environmental services market that benefits agricultural producers and improves the environment for society at large. This program aims to incentivize farmers and ranchers to improve soil health on working agriculture lands through the development of a market-based platform. [...]
– Garth Ruff, Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Educator, OSU Henry County Extension (originally published in the Ohio Farmer on-line) “The customer is always right.” If they want to purchase cattle only from feeders with a BQA certification, then to access their market that’s what we’ll need to do. Things are at a high pace [...]
