September 20, 2022 | Vol. 15 : No. 9
“As we look at the world economy, as we talk about what’s going on in agriculture, I have never seen so many balls in the air as we have right now. There’s so much going on,” said Dan Basse, president of AgResource Co., during the 2022 Feeding Quality Forum in August.
There wasn’t any light from the moon, and I had shut off the combine and the lights. I heard the crunch of the frozen cornstalks.
“Is someone there?”
I called out. There was no sound except for my breathing. I lunged toward the door of the truck when I felt hands around my neck. I screamed, but no one heard me.
“Seth Andrew, stop that!”
Oh boy, was he in trouble.
For the third year in a row Daytona International Speedway announced its partnership with Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner to sponsor the 42nd season-opening race for the NASCAR Xfinity Series — The Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner.® 300. The race is scheduled to kick off the season on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, at Daytona International Speedway, the day before the 65th annual Daytona 500.
September 7, 2022 | Vol. 15 : No. 9
When selling calves, shrink is a concern because it reduces sales weight, but abnormal levels of shrink are a health indicator for cattle arriving in receiving facilities at stocker operations, grow yards and feedlots. Price adjustments are common to compensate for varying shrinkage and gut fill.
Terminal traits have been the dominant selection criteria for the beef industry as a whole for quite some time. There are a couple of reasons for this focus. The first is that maternal traits, by necessity, had always been part of our selection parameters, so there was a lot of opportunity to improve carcass traits when we got the ability to select for them.
Heightening tensions between the United States and China about the Taiwan situation have caused concern among producers about the sensitivity of the U.S. beef industry to Chinese purchases. Several years ago, former President Trump signed a trade deal with China in which the Chinese committed to purchasing additional U.S. exports in two phases. This has significantly raised the total quantity and value of beef leaving the United States to mainland China and strengthened the U.S. wholesale beef price.
