Feed & Nutrition

Let's take a look at what has happened to box beef prices, fed cattle prices, feeder cattle prices and corn prices over the last year. I will start with USDA Choice box beef prices. In June of 2010, the price averaged $157 per cwt. and increased to $168 by January 2011. In April of this year, the price increased to $188 and on June 1, 2011 the price had decreased to $178 per cwt.

An old family photo album holds a picture of a little girl with a huge smile, holding an even bigger bag of carrots, as she stares at her new lifelong adventure.

When feeding high-stress weaning and receiving cattle, there are two competing factors that dictate what the best strategy is:

One of the textbooks I routinely use to answer questions about trace minerals is Minerals in Animal and Human Nutrition by Lee McDowell from the University of Florida.

Beef production is the largest segment in American agriculture, adding more than $60 billion to the U.S. economy.

With today’s increasing grain prices, producers are looking for alternative feedstuffs for their cattle.