The fourth annual Nebraska Youth Beef Leadership Symposium will be held November 4-6 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Animal Science Department. The symposium is a dynamic, interactive program designed for high school juniors, but sophomores and seniors can also participate. We want to help students become “corner posts for tomorrow’s beef industry”!

By Michael Kelsey

No matter what political affiliation you claim, we all have at least one thing in common – trade. We all do it, maybe not on a global scale, maybe only at your local grocery or lumber store. On second thought, that can be dependent upon global trade as well.

Nebraska Cattlemen members need to be aware of the Nebraska estate tax burden imposed on Nebraska residents. All NC members, their families and tax advisers are encouraged to aggressively seek a repeal of the tax.

By Melody Benjamin

    The best part of the Member Services job is the time we spend with members and prospective members. However, there are a number of misperceptions around the country about what Nebraska Cattlemen members represent. Following are some reoccurring myths that the staff hears constantly, as well as the “busted” myth.

By Jeff Stole

Over 250 feedyards throughout Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota now have the advantage of receiving up-to-the-minute fed-cattle market information and breaking industry news at a new level of speed, convenience and flexibility via the Market Reporting Service (MRS) Web site and text messaging service (detailed later in this article). At an additional cost of only $20 per month to Market Reporting Service subscribers, the information package offered by the MRS Web site is unmatched in its ability to put real-time and historical market information at customers’ fingertips, whether those cattle feeders are in the office, in the yard reading bunks, in the combine picking corn, or three states away taking delivery of feeder cattle.

The Internal Revenue Service is allowing cattle producers impacted by the nation’s ongoing drought additional time to purchase replacement property for livestock they were forced to sell

The agency has granted an extension of the capital gains tax deferment for cattle producers who previously sold cattle as a result of drought-related conditions. Producers will have until one year after the drought ends to defer their capital gains or purchase replacement cattle.

By Don Hutchens

Corn growers and ranchers in Nebraska have something new in common – distillers grains. For years, the feedlot industry has been getting used to feeding wet distillers grains, and it appears Nebraska will be home to many more ethanol plants, which are expected to produce nearly 6 million tons of distillers grain by 2010.

By Duane Gangwish

    Nebraska has, as some have coined it, the Golden Triangle ‑ cattle, corn and ethanol! As I see it, the glass is half-full and the glass is getting bigger.

August 8, Whitman

President Pete McClymont welcomed everyone to the Gudmundsen Sandhills Lab at 8:10.

Don Adams and Andy Applegarth provided an overview of the Lab.

By Pete McClymont

With Nebraska facing historic changes in its next Unicameral legislature, it ‘s an appropriate time to consider some elements of our state’s political process and how Nebraska Cattlemen is involved.

The Nebraska Cattlemen Research and Education Foundation (NC R&EF) announced the winners of its scholarships during the Nebraska Cattlemen/Cattlewomen Midyear Conference in Holdrege in June.

I was intrigued when Dave Hutchison, retired Texas A&M beef nutritionist, approached me earlier this year about a feedlot consulting opportunity in Kazakhstan. Easthides of London started a feedlot near Almaty, Kazakhstan, and was looking to grow its current yard from 625 head to 50,000. A 2005 feasibility study concluded that a large feedlot would be profitable, so a trial lot began. The company wanted a feedlot consultant for a three-month commitment to help with management problems. I knew I couldn’t commit that long since farming and the dehy season was on the horizon here at home, but we had an interest and some knowledge of the country from hosting a Kazak exchange student who had stayed in Nebraska.

Executive Vice President’s Perspective
By Michael Kelsey
“Because it’s the right thing to do!”

I remember those words from a very good friend and beef producer, Burke Healey. Burke was a leader not only in the beef industry, but in many other respects as well. I have often stopped to reflect on many of Burke’s comments and actions. Sports figures often occupy the hero status for boys and young men. Burke was a hero in the beef industry!

It has been a long time coming, but the documentary being co-produced by the Nebraska State Historical Society and NET (Nebraska Educational Telecommunications) is officially underway. In late June and early July, senior producer Olive “Mel” Bucklin made a scouting trip to the Nebraska panhandle. Later in July, her travels took her north to visit the area around Bassett.