http://www.thelandonline.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:09:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_183175000.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_183175000.html Cattle prices have firmed over the past few weeks mainly led by the futures market where heavy speculation has been the dominate feature. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:06:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_170174815.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_170174815.html The cattle market appears to have found a short-term top during the first week in June. The futures market after vaulting higher early in the week met considerable resistance and began to come under selling pressure by mid-week. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:03:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_170172238.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_170172238.html These are difficult times for hog producers with record high feed costs. We often get the question, “if I am losing money on every pig, when should I sell them?” Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:06:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_150152811.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_150152811.html The seasonal bias is for a top at this time of the year with prices drifting lower into the fall. Therefore, producers should use the current strength in the market to lock-in or move inventory. Fri, 23 May 2008 03:06:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_141170554.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_141170554.html The livestock markets have experienced a strong rally during the first week of May due in part to strong export business and speculation. Fri, 23 May 2008 03:04:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_141165602.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_141165602.html One item I have been suggesting to pork producers is to evaluate their marketing weights. This is a good idea to do occasionally regardless of the financial situation, but is especially important with the current high feed costs. Fri, 09 May 2008 03:07:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_123105330.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_123105330.html The next few weeks will be significant for the direction of the cattle market into the summer months. Producers should be on alert to lock-in summer inventories on the first signs of weakness developing in the market. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:17:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_115114754.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_115114754.html “It’s sort of like making Kevin Garnett one of the best professional basketball players in the world. That took some time, just as it takes time to build the genetics of your herd, too.” Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:06:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_115105800.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_115105800.html With competitive meat supplies abundant, the likelihood that beef cutouts could surpass their resistance area of $150 per hundredweight is not good in the months ahead. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:04:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_115105058.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_115105058.html In some countries it has been found that people exposed to livestock — including pigs, cattle and horses — are at higher risk of carrying methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in their noses, and therefore are likely to be at elevated risk of developing MRSA infections. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:14:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_102104251.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_102104251.html Sitting with nearly 100 people March 14 in the Renville County Commissioner’s Chamber at the county office building, I witnessed a most interesting demonstration of grass-roots activism. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:07:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_102101249.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_102101249.html The cattle market has not had much good news lately, and prices have slipped accordingly as we finish out the last week of March. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:07:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_087122901.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_087122901.html The livestock markets have not started March on a very positive note. Both cash cattle and cash hogs have been under pressure as prices have slipped for the first few weeks of the month. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:04:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_087122048.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_087122048.html Glycerol could serve as an energy source for pigs, but limited research has been reported on its nutritional value in swine diets. Preliminary research done in Iowa with nursery pigs and growing-finishing pigs suggests that glycerol contains nearly as much energy as that found in corn. Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:23:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_073135806.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_livestock/local_story_073135806.html I climbed aboard the Revier Feedlots 1994 International Eagle hitched to a 40-foot Trail King live bottom trailer at 7:30 a.m. Feb. 13. Forty-four miles later Jim Schweinfurter piloted this big rig into the “trucks only” entrance to the Bushmills Ethanol plant in Atwater.