Past Issue: February / March 2006
Preview 2006 – Cattle Feeding in the U.S.
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Every February, CALF News invites several cattle feeders to share their thoughts about the industry. We tend to think of cattle feeders as a group, running the same organizations, doing the same thing. Even though they all provide room and board to the animals in their care in the most efficient and profitable fashion, each in his own way is looking for better ways to provide that service...
A Trio of Advantages to E³ BioFuels Solution
LaRayne Meyer, Contributing Editor
E³ BioFuels Complex near Mead, Neb., is a cattle-feeding triad in more ways than one. Or two. Or three. E³ BioFuels combines three major operations – an ethanol plant, an anaerobic digester and a cattle feedlot – into one, using manure from feedlot cattle as the energy source to make ethanol.
A Youthful Perspective from Down Under
Lori Creech, Contributing Editor
For a man who has run Australian feedlots for several years and has the respect of people from the top of the corporate agri-business world to the farmer producing the product, you would imagine Troy Setter to be much older than his 28 years.
Maximizing Profitability
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
The venue was warm, the speakers informative and the attendees attentive at the Benchmark Advantage Forum held at the Pointe South Mountain Resort on the edge of Phoenix, Ariz. Cattle feeders had an opportunity to share information and bone-up on the ever-evolving cattle feeding industry in style. Vetlife and Elanco teamed up to provide a memorable experience.
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
As most of you know, CALF News magazine started out as California Arizona Lot Feeders, a short newsletter produced by Champ Gross, featuring the developing feedlot industry in those states. Forty-four years later, CALF News magazine is still dedicated to the “people who brought them to the dance,” as my dad used to say. The advancements of the cattle feeding industry in those 44 years are nothing short of amazing, and we here at CALF are proud to have reported them year by year.
Jim Whitt
Cyberia, The Final Frontier?
“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, her five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilization, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Sorry Captain Kirk, but with all due respect, there’s a new frontier called cyberspace.
Richard McDonald
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Richard McDonald, president and CEO of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, has been a driving force in the continued success of the cattle feeding industry. The search for excellence could well be the mantra of the 32 years Richard McDonald has spent with the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.