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Vol 1 No 1
Starting Out
   There Will Be a Newsletter.
   Focus Is on Profitability.
   Change Is Coming Our Way.

Why?
   Strength Comes from Working Together.
   Expanding Our Horizons.

How Do Traits Rank Economically?
   Color and Breed Are Not Main Determinants of Profitability
   Know Your EPDs.

Aim to Profit.
   Set Up a Plan.

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Vol 1 No 2
The Association Is a Go!
   It's About Jobs and Economic Development.
   It's About Improving the Cattleman's Return on Investment.

Shoot the Messenger?
   Change Is Scary, and Folks React Differently and They Will Get Emotional.
   A Hard Sell: Together We Can Be Stronger.
   Two-Tier Market Ahead.
   Others Are Beating Us to the Punch.

Meeting Highlights
   Fences Pay off in the Long Term.
   Make $100 per Calf More.
   Let's Feed Some Cattle.

"I Know It All"
   I Know Everything.
   It Costs to Much.
   The Promoters Ain't Locals
   Breeders Are Promoting Their Bulls
   It Won't Last.

Cattle Feeding Contest
   A Dime a Pound Awaits Today's Feeders.
   Preconditioning Information Available.

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Vol 1 No 3
Grass Farmer?!?!?
   Are We Changing a Way of Life?
   Can Winter Pastures Lower Our Costs?
   Who's Managing the Resources, the Cows or the Cowboy?
   Roy Tells Us His Success Story.
   Lanes Help Move Cattle.

Rotational Grazing--Get in the Ball Game by Matthew Mattox
   Forages Three Phases of Maturity.
   Let Plants Recover.

Cattlefeed by Chris Slanker
   Plant Types.
   Create a "Salad Mix" Pasture.

Feed Cattle?!?!?
   Cattle Feeders Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank.
   Feedlot Operator Is Making out Well.
   We're in a Rising Cattle Market.

Quotes from "Drovers"
   We're Not All Alike, Some Make Money, Some Don't.
   Alliances Have Positive Impact.
   In Tune or Out of Touch.
   Southern Forages Is an Outstanding Book.

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Vol 1 No 4
Marketing Beef
   Mark Thomas Explains Why We Need the Beef Checkoff.
   "Beef Walked Away from the Consumer."
   Looking for Convenience.
   From Cotton to Beef.
   Checkoff Is More Important than Ever.
   Bulls Are Cheap but Vital.
   Performance Testing.
   Follow the Rules When Buying Bulls.

Cattlefeed by Chris Slanker
   Southerners Are Blessed with Plant Production Potential.
   It's Cheaper for Cattle to Harvest Forage Than It Is for Man.
   Picking Plants to Extend the Grazing Season.
   Southern Forages Is My "Forage Bible."

The Contest Is Out!
   Serious About Making Money, Not Glory.
   Dollars Make Sense

EPDs and Meetings
   Bull Purchases Start at Home.
   Shopping From an Easy Chair.
   Computers Revolutionize Ranching.
   EPDs Get to the Root of the Genes.
   Bull Searching.
   "Good Ol' Bull"
   Make Our Voice Be Heard.

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Vol 2 No 1
Retained Ownership
   Can it Improve the Bottom Line?
   What Boosts Rate of Return?

Cattlefeed by Chris Slanker
   What are the Elements Essential to Plant Growth?
   What is the Relationship Between Soil pH and Relative Plant Nutrient Availability?
   What Is My "Forage Bible"?

Who Do You Think You Are?
   Animosity Develops When Change Is Mentioned!
   Hurt Feelings?
   The Bigger the Better?
   Mistakes Stem for Ignorance.
   Who Knows it All?
   Everything Except Boring.

Plastic Twine Kills
   The Secret Killer

Mississippi State Answers the Question:
   What Is Meant by Compensatory Gain?

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Vol 2 No 2
Clark Willingham Explains NCBA Functions
   Lobbying in the Nation's Capitol
   Balancing the Demands

Cattlefeed by Chris Slanker
   Are You Mining Your Land?
   Some Approaches for Restoring Soil Nutrients.

The 45-day Breeding Period
   Is it a Cattleman's Pipe Dream?
   What Are the Four Phases of Fertility after Calving?
   Identifying Infertile Cows Is of Paramount Importance.
   Counting the Days.
   The Only Way to Manage!

The Feedlot Advantage
   Just Do the Arithmetic.

It's Not Always Pretty
   The Importance of Performance.
   Optimize Rather Than Maximize.
   Grazing Lowers Costs.
   Some Comparative Costs for Water and Fencing.
   Texas Bull Sales
   Wintering Cows Without Hay!

Mississippi State Answers the Question:
   How Do I Get Rid of Little Yellow Buttercup in My Pastures?
   They Gave the Answer in Time, Unfortunately Most Producers Ignored the Advise

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Vol 2 No 3
Grass: It's What's for Dinner
   A Meeting with R. L. Dalrymple

The RRVCA Is Progressive, Not Regressive
   An Editorial by Cleve Moore

Photoperiod and BCS Influence Fertility
   What Three Events Influence Biorhythms?
   Are Cattle Seasonal Breeders?
   How Important Is Body Condition?
   Are You in Sync with Mother Nature?
   The Greatest Secret for Lowering Costs!

Rotational Grazing and Other Integrated Management
Part One of Four by R. L. Dalrymple
   Philosophy of Operation.
   Numerous Alternatives.
   Minimize Equipment Usage.

Where's the Money?
   How Much Grass Does it Take to Raise a 500-Pound Calf?
   How Much Grass Does it Take to Put 350 Pounds on a Stocker?

Questions Answered in Spades
   Complaining Doesn't Help.
   What's the Highest Cost, Highest Risk Phase of the Cattle Business?
   Is a BCS of 4.5 Too Thin?
   We Can Lower Our Costs.

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Vol 2 No 4
Raising Beef for the American Consumer Is a Business, So Let's Get Serious
   Bill Mies Excommunicates Today's Sacred Cows.

Beef Cattle Production Systems Profit and Perspectives by W. L. Mies
   Getting Fat out of the System.
   Selecting for Moderation.
   Managing for Profits.

Government Regulatory Activity Poses Greatest Threat to U.S. Agriculture by John S. Nalivka
   Nation's Food Supply Is Already Safe.
   A Greatly Flawed Ideology.

Rotational Grazing and Other Integrated Management
Part Two of Four by R. L. Dalrymple
   Cell Design and Fence Materials
   Efficient Haying
   Forage Production and Grazing Management
   Spring Fertilizing

Keep ‘Em and Cheapen ‘Em up
   A Detailed Analysis of a "Special Preconditioned Stocker Sale."
   Who Made the Money, and Who Left the Profits on the Table.

Let's Be "Beefraisers"
   How Can You Raise 621 Pounds of Beef per Acre?
   Numbers Tell the Tale
   NETBIO Stocker Sale
   Wake-up Call! Is Anyone Listening?

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Vol 2 No 5
Dinosaurs Didn't Change
   125-Year Chart Depicting the Constant-Dollar Cattle Price.
   Why Did the Price Fall?
   Look Beyond Sinister Interests.
   Will Cattle Prices Stay Low?
   Why Not Branded Beef?
   Taking it to the Consumer.
   A Glance into the Future of Beef.

Breaking the Thermometer Never Changed the Temperature
   Congressmen Meet with Paranoid Farmers and Ranchers.

Rotational Grazing and Other Integrated Management
Part Three of Four by R. L. Dalrymple
   Allocating Forages and Setting Stocking Rates
   Stock Type and Management
   Grazing Management

Minnie Lou Told It Like It Is
   Management Is the Key to Greater Profits

Timely Management Hints
   Internal and External Parasite Control Is Imperative
   Drought Management Starts in the Spring

Shooting the Bull
   "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"
   No Such Thing as Normal
   Lower Prices Demand Lower Costs
   Paris Bull Sale Needs a Facelift
   Line Drawn in the Sand
   LMA Is Playing Dirty
   The LMA's "Mad" Crowd
   NCBA Puts Best Interests of Industry First

Can We Do It?
   Can Cow/Calf Producers Raise Beef?

125-Year Charts of the DJIA, Commodities, Wheat, and Cotton

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Vol 2 No 6

Mr. Yes Versus Dr. No
   Hitch's Message
   Hitch's Vision
   Alliances Can Help
   Give Them What They Want

How Do You Make Cost-Effective Decisions?
   Meet Dr. Jim McGrann on June 17th
   The Expert in IRM and SPA
   Extensive Ranch Experience Worldwide
   Let's Get 30 Ranches to Work with Jim

How Do You Know?
   Which Bulls Work, Which Don't
   Which Cows Work, Which Don't
   Which Calves Work, Which Don't
   Record Keeping Pays

Rotational Grazing and Other Integrated Management

Part Four of Four by R. L. Dalrymple
   Some Special Applications Within the Unit
   Finish with a Bang!
   Economics
   We Can Do Better

The Feedlot Advantage
   Margins Have Narrowed
   It Pays to Be Above Average
   How to Determine Growth Genetics

The Accounting Period Won't Be the Same
If It's Profit and Performance That Counts
   Time Calving to Reduce Feed Bill
   Let's Talk Performance
   Compensate for Age
   Everyone Can Raise Stockers
   Focus Is On Low Cost
   No Hay. No Grain. No Cubes. No Licks.
   Data Makes Decisions Easier

Cattle and Corn
   A 125-year Constant-Dollar Price Perspective

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Vol 2 No 7

What's the RRVCA All About?
   Loyal to Beef Producers
   Service Industries Must Change With Producers
   Producers' Profits and Quality of Life Come First

Ranching for Profit! or The Most Rewarding Year of My Life
   Dave Pratt, from Ranching for Profit
   Alumnus Sings Praises
   Cow-Calf Enterprise

Standardized Performance Analysis (SPA)
Measures and Summary Description
   Why Do Producers Need SPA
   Marketing and Financial Performance measures
   Financial Expenses vs. Economic Costs
   Marketing, Financial, and Economic Performance Measures
   Better Data Boosts SPA Accuracy
   Cow-Calf SPA Results for the Southwest 1992 through 1998
   Getting to Know You(rself)
   Fiscal Year Sales Worksheet

One Can't Get There from Here . . .Without SPA!
   Grasping the Basics
   Not All Data Are Equal

Mind-Bending Stuff
   Lemmings Follow Blindly
   Computers
   You Can't Do That On Grass
   Forage Varies Annually
   An On-Line Cattleman
   Putting the Bulls Out

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Vol 2 No 8

No Hay, No Cubes, No Grain, and No Licks. Yes Grass!
   Wholesale Priced Products Won't Cover Many Retail-Priced Inputs
   Ranchers Say You Can't Do This, You Can't Do That
   To Be a Low-Cost Producer, You Have to Be Lower Cost

Taking Measure for a Change
   Unique Opportunity Ahead
   Cattlemen Usually Operate in a Vacuum
   Many Folks Behind SPA Data Base Effort

Dumbing Down the Cattleman
   Must Understand the Big Picture
   Establishment Lives by Generally Accepted Beliefs
   A Souring Encounter
   Poppycock and Balderdash
   Keep Eye out for Opportunists and Naysayers
   Packer Conspiracy: A Prime Example of Dumbing Down

Putting Profit Back into Ranching
   An essay by David Pratt, Ranching for Profit School
   Working on Your Business
   The Three Secrets to Increasing Profit
   Working with Nature
   There Are Alternatives to Losing Money

Use Hybrid Vigor
   An Essay by John Hough, Ph.d., Chief Science Officer, EPD International, Inc.
   Economic Value, Heritability, and Heterosis
   Taking Measure of Traits
   It's the Crossbred Cow That Performs Best

It Comes and Goes
   The Feedlot Is Not Always Positive.
   Trail Drive
   Shrink Inherent When Moving Cattle
   With Retained Ownership, Cattlemen Avoid the Middlemen

So Little Accomplished, So Much to Do
   Are You Crossbreeding?
   Getting the Most Pounds for the Least Cost
   What Motivates Cattle Buyers?
   Beanie Babies Are a Fad.
   Money to Burn
   Fat and Economics
   Certified Hereford Beef (CHB) Is "Best Tasting Restaurant Beef in America"
   Which Calf Would You Prefer to Raise?
   A Double Win!
   And She's Ugly!
   Ranching for Profit
   My Hay-making Neighbors
   Bulls in with Cows
   Bulls out August 20
   Keeping the Bulls on the Ranch
   Pondering Ponds