Back to Basics – What’s your risk management plan?
Blue Reef Agri-Marketing is a Platinum Sponsor of the 2021 Nebraska Cattlemen Convention and Trade Show. No matter what way you look at it, cattle ranching is a risky business. Uncertainty [...]
Updates Make LRP Better Risk management Tool
Farm Credit Services of America is a Platinum Sponsor of the 2021 Nebraska Cattlemen Annual Convention and Trade Show. Tight margins resulting from increasing expenses mean price is top of mind [...]
Risk Management Considerations for Cow-Calf Operations
This year has been anything but low key in west central South Dakota where my wife and I, along with our two children, operate our cow-calf, stocker-backgrounder and custom grazing enterprises. [...]
Feedlot Council Addresses Industry Concerns
We’ve all heard it… “you have two ears and one mouth, use them proportionately.” That’s exactly what Nebraska Cattlemen (NC) leadership and staff did recently with NC Feedlot Council members from [...]
Pursuit of More Cash Cattle Trade
Would you say the markets are still feeling the effects of the COVID shutdowns? There are things still in play in the market that are related to COVID that go back to when we saw the sharp [...]
Revamped NC-MRS Offers Vital Market Information
Volunteer leaders and state and national association staff of the U.S. cattle industry – from north to south – are currently putting forth an incredible amount of time and effort to ensure that [...]
2020 Road Trip – What has NC been up to?
Last week NC staff traveled across the state for the annual Road Trip, talking with members and updating them on current happenings within Nebraska Cattlemen. If you were unable to attend the [...]
Cattle Industry Updates as of August 4th, 2020
The webinar starts off with Jeff Stolle, Nebraska Cattlemen market reporting service, giving a market overview going on 150 days from when COVID-19 started to affect our marketplace. Jeff goes [...]
Voluntary or Mandatory? Is the Question
Ken Herz, NC President, giving an update on the 6-hour live cattle marketing committee during NCBA summer business meetings in Denver. “It was an incredible meeting; it did take quite a long [...]
What You Need to Know About Local Beef Processing
Moderated by: Ryan Cox, Extension Meat Specialist at the University of Minnesota Speakers: Laura Field, Legislative Coordinator for Nebraska Department of Agriculture and Preston Correll, [...]
