Concentrating livestock production in confined areas creates problems for the expansion and growth of the industry as well as neighbors. Questions are being asked about what precautions should be taken and what actions will be taken if mad cow or foot and mouth diseases find their way into the United States. What's Shaping the Markets, Wednesday, April 11. The program is archived for later viewing after 5 p.m. Wednesday. Marketing cattle via satellite auctions has been around for years, and now livestock auctions using the Internet provide yet another alternative for marketing livestock.
Identity preserved crops is a relatively new term in production agriculture.
Consumers are raising questions about biotech foods, and they are raising them in the nation's courts. For the producer, identity preserved crops starts at planting time and continues until the crop is sold. It s just a matter of days before midwestern producers head to the fields. Keeping production costs under control is an important objective for this year s operation. A discussion of how producers might fine-tune their operations for cost containment will be featured on the Wednesday, March 21, Internet edition of What s Shaping the Markets.