Along the Trail Online

A western livestock industry compendium of lesser-known facts the mass media passes over or misreports. Sprightly commentary on agricultural and livestock issues of the day.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Beef exports remain strong

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Despite the weakening worldwide economy, U.S. beef exports to other countries were up 12% in 2008 over 2007. There is definitely a demand fo...

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Gregg rises in my estimation

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I always considered New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg to be a garden-variety eastern RINO (Republican In Name Only). His father Hugh was the New...

Boosting beef demand: research

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I can speak from very personal experience that research creates beef demand. A new study from Kansas State and Michigan State universities, ...

Friday, February 6, 2009

Good news not as good as it should be

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The latest statistical abstract from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), reported else...

Thursday, January 29, 2009

At least they're serving beef

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The word has come out that they served imported Wagyu beef from Japan at a big, fancy White House dinner last week. It reportedly cost $100 ...

Contact ag lender early

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The natural inclination in business, such as ranching for instance, is to keep expenses low by borrowing money at the last possible moment a...

Friday, January 23, 2009

Critical wheat pasture in question

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One of the great money-making opportunities in the cattle business is late winter and early spring wheat pasture grazing in the Texas-Oklaho...

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Along The Trail Online: Dan Green is editor and publisher of the Denver-based Record Stockman weekly livestock newspaper, mailed from Denver to over 35,000 readers each Wednesday. I am a person of strong opinions, basing them on over 40 years experience in the livestock industry. I have been active in the conservative movement since my days fighting the communists at the University of Colorado during the Vietnam War. I have maintained an active interest in politics to this day. I have been an active Republican and candidate for public office.

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