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CBB members reject ’separation’ recommendation

At the Cattle Industry Summer Conference in Denver, members of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board have voted 62-30 to disapprove of the recommendation from the Cattlemen’s Beef Board Executive Committee that the Federation of State Beef Councils be separated... Read More...

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Federation directors seek ‘more independence’

Directors of the Federation of State Beef Councils have sent a message to their leadership—they want to continue their close relationship with NCBA, but also want the Federation to be “more independent.” In a “straw poll” vote on Friday, the... Read More...

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Managing For Profit

Discussing new technologies in alfalfa production Discussing new technologies in alfalfa production

Gary Smith of Mission Hill, South Dakota has been in the hay business in southeastern South Dakota since 1979.  And he says, so far, 2010 has been the most challenging year he’s ever experienced, what with constant rain and high humidity.  While talking with Smith about that recently, we also asked him about new technologies in the hay business,... [Read more of this review]

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Rural Issues

The voice of animal agriculture in Canada The voice of animal agriculture in Canada

It was 1988, 22 years ago that some forward thinking Canadian farmers recognized that people really didn’t understand what they did, so they formed the Ontario Farm Animal Council, OFAC. Executive Director Crystal Mackay says the organization has evolved over the years and they’ve been involved in a number of projects that tells the story.... [Read more of this review]

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Cyndi Young's Two Cents

Basic ethics were not heeded Basic ethics were not heeded

Commentary. Had basic ethics of journalism been heeded, the fiasco/debacle/extraordinary mess stemming from the release of a video clip from a speech by Georgia USDA official Shirley Sherrod would never have occurred. It all started last Monday when Andrew Breitbart of the website Big Government.com posted a video clip from a speech that Sherrod made... [Read more of this review]

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Innovations

What’s new from DuPont Crop Protection? What’s new from DuPont Crop Protection?

Dupont Crop Protection has added the letter “Q” to some of its traditional herbicides to designate a safener that has been added to those products. And, for 2011, the company is introducing a new herbicide called Realm Q.  We discussed those developments and other topics with Jeff Carpenter, U.S. corn portfolio manager for DuPont Crop Protection.  AUDIO:... [Read more]

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Inside D.C.

Whom do you trust? Whom do you trust?

Commentary When I was a reporter, my mom would tell everyone I was a “journalist.” When I became the head of government relations for an association and then moved to my own government/communications consulting business, she would tell folks I was a “government affairs representative.” She could not utter the word “lobbyist.”... [Read more]

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