Past Issue: February / March 2010 
Going All-In With Hedging
Larry Stalcup , Contributing Editor
“We decided to use our resources in a different way,” Keeling says. “We now own most of the cattle in the yard and use a variety of options and futures strategies to manage the risk of nearly every one of them.”
Cap and Trade Talks – Emissions Reductions Causing a Stink
Fred Minnick, Contributing Editor
Some economists estimate cap-and-trade legislation could decrease immediate farm income by $8 billion and more than $50 billion long term. But environmentalists say HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 is necessary to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
One of the press releases in my morning pile claimed that, according to a study at the University of Idaho, the net farm income in the state plummeted 47 percent last year. Ouch!
Whitt & Wisdom
Oz, Plumbing and How to Succeed in Business
Jim Whitt
Like most country boys I grew up having to figure out how to fix things with limited resources — like intelligence and money. I hate to admit this but I have become so suburbanized over the years that I sometimes struggle with what I used to consider fairly routine repairs.
Range of Reason
Broadcast Your Story
Tracy Rehberg, Contributing Editor
It happens with radio. I woke to my alarm clock broadcasting unfamiliar voices. There’d been an overnight switch of station format – to “Rush Radio” conservative talk – and instead of pushing snooze, I tuned in for a moment of early-morning dialogue that made me think.
Beef Biz
Preach On!
Nevil Speer, Contributing Editor
Over the years I’ve repeatedly been impressed by how various issues of CALF News seem to take on a theme of their own. Making it especially surprising is that it’s pure happenstance – there’s no coordination among the contributing editors.