The Montana Stockgrowers Association (MSGA) is seeking nominations of Montana ranches for the Montana Environmental Stewardship Award. Each year, MSGA honors a Montana ranch that exemplifies environmental stewardship and demonstrates a commitment toward improved sustainability within the beef industry.

The beef feeding industry recognizes that feeder calves entering the finishing, back grounding, or stocker phases of production pose several challenges and risks.

The vast majority of cash fed trade took place on Thursday morning and early afternoon ahead of the market closures of Good Friday. The small volume of sales earlier in the week developed in the South Plains at $125 live and $202 dressed, but the bulk of the trade on Thursday went for $127-129 live and $203-204 dressed.

Over the last few years, there has been success in developing Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. These agreements offer great potential to increase market share in key markets for U.S. beef in Asia and South America.

The book “Who Will Feed China?: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet,” authored by Lester Brown in 1995, was a surprising wake-up call about world food security. Brown claimed that food production was not growing fast enough to feed China’s increasing population, which could result in rising food prices in China and the rest of the world.

Hough is well-known throughout the country for his service to the Red Angus Association of America (RAAA), Denton, TX, as the executive secretary/treasurer (CEO) for 10 years and marketing coordinator for three years.

“The addition of Japan to the negotiations will exponentially increase the importance of the TPP to U.S. farmers and ranchers, processors and exporters as well as other sectors of the U.S. economy,” said the coalition. ‘Furthermore, it will spur interest in the TPP among other countries in Asia and Latin America.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced last week that the secretaries of Interior and Agriculture have made selections for three positions on its National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Timothy J.

Most winter wheat has likely survived the winter in reasonably good shape. However, it will probably be a few weeks before anyone can know for sure. There were repeated instances where some wheat was exposed to frigid temperatures following a warm spell that removed all snow cover.

The total cost of the 16-item basket surveyed was $46.40, an increase of nearly 5.5 percent from results reported in November 2012. The largest increases were in beef, as the price of lean ground beef rose more than 10 percent from last quarter to $3.58 per pound and sirloin steak was up nearly 19 percent at $6.