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About everybody needs a rain, but the dakotas really need a rain. So last night a big storm blew through south of kodaka, and all it left was a few sprinkles and a bunch of lightening fires. Hurts to see.

Cash cattle moved up to $135 late this week. Packers had the orders to go get them so this is a demand market. Could be trump exuberance if not actual economic upturn - might be checkoff demand. Feeders taking advantage of selling opportunities have pulled cattle forward so steer carcasses are...

I'm sure everyone is happily aware of the price buildup in fed cattle. Who's thinking of shorting out some protection? The Chinese market may begin accepting us beef. That alone should be plenty price protection - the way it's working, china is getting Aussie beef that otherwise would be here...

Went to Maynard Conroy's bull sale north of Gordon the other day and thought prices were $1000 off of last year. Conroys offer real tight consistency but not trait benders, and sometimes it seems like the big check writers like the trait benders. Well, after soapweed has explained the value of...

Vigorous expansion + low cow culling rate + high rate of heifer retention and for breeding stock. Artificially reduced slaughter tonnages that will increase substantially when cow slaughter increases to normal and heifer retention decreases to normal. The USDA National Agricultural...

WB brought up this additive in a different thread. I'm curious about everyone's opinion. It appears that using this additive has hurt US beef demand around the world. There is evidence that the use of ractopamine can show up in negative effects in consumers, and evidence to the contrary. Clearly...

Might be getting back to their feet. 5-0 with a couple good wins, breaking the top 10 mid season.

Farmland prices and cash rents continue to decline through the first quarter of 2016, according to the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and St. Louis. The banks' quarterly surveys of ag bankers found the value of nonirrigated and irrigated cropland declined 4% and 2%, respectively, across...

From ag report Denmark proposed a tax on all beef sold in the country in order to discourage beef production and consumption. The tax was an offset to their notion of the contribution cattle raising made to global warming from cattle as methane producers. Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, also...

$17,000/acre in IowA Friday, April 15, auction in Sioux Co., Iowa, saw 80 acres of prime ground sell for $17,100 an acre. The farm was located about three miles north of Orange City and was virutally all tillable. It carried a CSR2 on the cropland of 90.9 versus the county average cropland CSR2...

Big 10 and fox are inking a deal that will guarantee members $50 mil each and increase to perhaps even $70 mil. That's a lotta cheese for the NCAA to be locked out. I have a friend in media in KC, he says that kind of clink will doom the big 12. The SEC and pac will have to make a move.

So Valentine sold feeders (let's use 700# class to get out of grass calves) for up or down from $175 on the 7th - $1225/hd. Oct fed cattle closed at slightly over $1.15 today. If those 700# calves gain 3# pd for the next 150 days, that's 1150#. Well they're good Sandhill cattle so let's figure...

Average per head losses for fed cattle marketed in January exceeded $500. Cattle marketed in March are projected to only lose $350 per head ("only lose $350"). The blood bath has lasted so long and been so deep, I can't imagine the cattle feeding industry can sustain these losses and continue to...

Probably none of us appreciate or recognize our brides as much as we should. (Well, Moreland probably does, but he casts a long shadow) So, I sent this link to my wife, and it made her cry (confirming my delinquency in recognizing her). This is a timeless song from 50 years ago-use it or send...

Denny wrote: Well the last I checked new steel hadn't wiggled in price from last spring if anything it crept up a bit. Needless to say the shop is pretty quiet. I think you need to find a new supplier if your price is higher. Last January we got 4x8x 11 ga sheet metal to make feed bunks cost...

Oil is down 66% from the high - about the same as iron ore. All the industrial metals are similarly down. Grains are off a mere 50% more or less (wanna buy some $15,000 per acre corn ground now?) Fed beef ($180 - $120) is only down 33%. Even lumber and coffee are down. Pretty much an exhaustive...

I rember when John was a young sharpshooter, now he's an old sage. He usually gets it more right than about anyone. Severely Wounded Feedlots Restock Since late summer, cattle feeders have been trapped in a financial bloodbath of historical proportion. Between Labor Day and the end of...

I guess you've heard, Wolfe, MU president resigned. Somebody scrawled a swastica in poo, and too many slavers go around with poo on their hands to have a manageable suspect pool. And somebody yelled a word at somebody else, and another person had a flag in their pickup. All this mayhem has made...

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article33127788.html So taters sign a sportsmanship pledge? What exemplary citizens of the NCAA. When the hillbillies erupt, there are rules in place to ban hillbillies from tater sports events.

Big 12 proposed rule to protect players http://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaab/eye-on-college-basketball/25198133/proposed-rule-big-12-teams-could-lose-home-games-if-fans-storm-court Enough was enough a long time ago. I find it irritating when these hillbillies point fingers everywhere but at...