Past Issue: February / March 2007 
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Questions abound while driving the last few miles to Starr Feedyards. When the name of the game in the feeding business is location, location, location, this operation north of Rio Grande City, Texas, seems to have a number of logistical issues.
2007 Industry Predictions
A Tremendously Exciting Time in Agriculture
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Correctly anticipating what 2007 will bring is about as easy as anticipating Nebraska weather. However, the stage has been set by our previous year. We are facing a tremendously exciting time in agriculture.
International Livestock Congress
A Global Perspective of the Cattle Industry
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
The U.S. cattle and beef industry is operating in a global market, not just a domestic one. That was the consensus when about 200 people gathered for the 2007 International Livestock Congress. . .
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Global warming was not evident in the High Plains as Mother Nature started the New Year with a vengeance for livestock producers.
Tracy Rehberg
Another Reason to Celebrate
Congratulations! You are Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. That’s right. You. Not you and you alone exactly.
Tri State Feeders
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Walt Olson heaved a sigh of relief as he talked about the severe weather that had just skirted his feedyard.