Past Issue: April / May 2006
The Beef Industry Long Range Plan … 2010
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
The Vision of the 2010 beef industry long-range plan is: “A beef industry that is profitable, growing and sustainable for future generations.” Hard words to live by, but over 5,000 cattle people who attended the Cattle Industry Convention in Denver were not deterred.
You, Me and Those Other Wierdos
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Now, Bill Jeffries does not look like the normal guy who gets up in front of a group of feedlot managers and commands their attention. The first hint that Jeffries isn’t your average ag speaker is his ponytail and clothes.
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Driving back from Amarillo, we saw the devastation from wildfires that blazed across the Panhandle. Mile after mile of grassland was blackened as the fire rushed forward, jumping highways in a fury of orange flame. As one cattleman told me, “the whole world was black.”
Jim Whitt
Do You Have the Right Stuff?
The most famous astronaut who never was is Chuck Yeager, who gained fame as the central character in Thomas Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff. Even though Yeager was a top test pilot and trained many astronauts, he was passed over by NASA because of his lack of formal education.
Mull Farms & Feeding
Betty Jo Gigot, Editor and Publisher
Glenn Mull’s great grandfather purchased the headquarters section south of Pawnee Rock, Kan., in 1908. Since then, generations of the Mull family have built the business into a far-flung agricultural entity, raising crops, feeding cattle and ranching, among other enterprises.