Beef chairman satisfied with checkoff’s contractors work
It hasn’t been smooth sailing for the beef cattle industry over the past year. For its part, the cattle market has certainly been aggravating. As a beef producer I know the limitations of what any of us at the ranch level can do individually to fully control profitability and assure that the bottom line has more black ink on it than red.
Seaboard Triumph will process 21K hogs daily as of September
Seaboard Triumph Foods announced late last month its $300 million pork processing plant will open in September, processing about 10,000 hogs per day and expanding to 21,000 daily in 2018.
In some parts of the Midwest, thanks to a quirky set of weather conditions this spring and early summer, corn crops have gone “retroactive.” In other words, many fields were at heights that used to be the norm decades ago.
