Past Issue: December / January 2006
National Beef Cook-Off® is a Winner
Connie Smith, Contributing Editor
When the petite Linda Morten stepped off a Rapid City, S.Dak., stage September 21 with a giant-sized $50,000-check in her hands, she looked overwhelmed. Not just by the heft of the check – both in physical and dollar size – but in the fact that she had just walked away with top honors at the 2005 National Beef Cook-Off ®.
Keeps Priorities at Yard Level
Jo Dexter, Contributing Editor
Colorado is the fourth-largest cattle-feeding state, and in May 2005, became the headquarters for the world’s largest cattle feeding company...
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
By the time you read this we will be nearing the end of the year. I don’t know where the time goes, but here at CALF News we run on a very definite cycle, six times a year. We know we are at the beginning of that cycle when Patti in Nebraska goes from tending the cows and sheep to checking with everyone . . .
Jim Whitt
Making a Bigger Pie
I guess you could say I met Bob Workman on the radio. I was driving down the road, listening to the news while he was being interviewed about The American, a 21-story statue that was to be built on a hill overlooking Tulsa.
Rumblings From the Great White North
Will Verboven
Canadian ID Program Forges Ahead
It was four years ago that the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) launched its mandatory ID program for all cattle being marketed in Canada. At the time, the program had undergone endless debates complete with dire threats and woes of economic ruin.
Charlie McVean: A Far Reaching View of the World
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Memphis, Tenn., certainly has its share of attractions – Graceland, Beale Street, the Peabody Hotel and its parade of ducks, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.