MANAGEMENT

Once characterized by handshakes and in-person greetings, the process to purchase bulls is changing swiftly to include more technology and less sitting elbow-to-elbow.

Production sales can be overwhelming. There are lots of moving parts and people behind the scenes that have to synchronize to execute the event. But with a little foresight, your family or business partners can successfully plan a production sale with minimal headaches.

Over the past half-century, there has been an unfortunate shift in the average American’s connection with the production of the food they consume.

The ongoing health crisis has generated additional losses to cow-calf producers already suffering multiple years of low margins due to market prices below the average total economic cost of production.

People seem to be most open to new ideas, alternate strategies and other changes to our normal approaches during the first few weeks of the year.

My last two articles briefly summarized some differences between our conventional industrial production models in the beef industry and the growing “niche” markets that are becoming more prominent. As niche markets grow, so has the focus on regenerative production models because the niche market consumer and producer both tend to have desires to break free from the high input, “bigger is better” industrial mindset.