Past Issue: December 2006 / Jan 2007
Ethanol’s Reality
What Will 2007 Bring?
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Looking toward a new year in the cattle-feeding industry, the booming ethanol business brings to the table a wildcard for farmers, feeders, investors and consumers alike.
Anderson Farms in Colorado
Moves Aside for ‘Progress’
Walt Barnhart
It was just a matter of time.
An average of 20,000 vehicles a day were flying along Interstate 25 at 75 miles per hour just a half mile east of Jim Anderson’s Longmont, Colo., farm and feedlot.
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Well, we lived through another election. Tracy Rehberg has some interesting comments on the campaign in her Range of Reason column in this issue, as does Steve Dittmer in Ruminatin’. I certainly can sympathize with...
Tracy Rehberg
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
On the day of the midterm elections, it poured rain. Hoards of grumbling voters parked illegally, then huddled under umbrellas and snaked to avoid puddles on the path to polling places all over town.
Jim Whitt
Playing Chicken with Chicken Little
If there was ever a children’s story that has become a metaphor for the world we live in today it is the tale of Chicken Little.
PACO Feedyard
Steady as She Goes
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
It was early Monday morning at PACO and the start of another week. The first thing I noticed was the silence. The office staff were at their desks, working their way through the weekend paperwork. The only sound in the cattle working area was...