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Bright longterm outlook for meat prices Supply, demand cooperate for producers
livestock producers’ favor to create and maintain attractive prices — and that appears to be the case, Petry says. On the supply side: Global ability to increase supply is limited. Brazil and Argentina have potential to produce substantially more meat, but they’re the exception, Petry says. On the demand side: The world’s population is growing rapidly, and so By Jonathan Knutson is the need for — and ability to buy Agweek Staff Writer FARGO, N.D. — Successfully pre- — food, including high-protein meat. dicting the future is notoriously dif- The world will have an estimated 9.3 billion people in 2050, ficult. But there are valid up from 6.9 billion in 2010, reasons to be optimistic with the global per capita about long-term U.S. liveincome doubling in the same stock prices, says Tim Petry, period, according to a United a North Dakota State UniNations report. versity livestock marketing “As incomes in developeconomist. ing countries increase, food “When you consider the consumption shifts to diets supply and demand deterricher in animal protein,” minants, the outlook is Tim Petry is a livestock the U.S. Department of Agriencouraging,” says Petry. marketing economist culture says. Supply and demand can be for the NDSU Extension China already is an likened to the two blades of Service. important growth market a scissors working in union. for U.S. beef. Though China’s Both blades need to function properly domestic beef production is rising, for the scissors to cut. Likewise, both beef consumption is rising even fastsupply and demand need to work in er, boosting the need for imports from
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‘People still like meat’ Some in production agriculture once wondered if interest in vegetarianism eventually might cut into meat consumption. But that hasn’t happened, at least not to a meaningful extent, Petry says. “People still like meat,” he says, noting that young American adults do, too. U.S. per capita consumption of red meat is expected to increase slightly in both 2017 and 2018, according to USDA projections. Exports are important for U.S. livestock producers — last year America exported 25.8 percent of its pork and 13.7 percent of its beef — and foreign demand for U.S. meat is growing, too. Japan is the leading importer of U.S. beef, followed by South Korea, Mexico, Canada and Hong Kong. Those six countries account for the vast majority of 2017 U.S. beef exports, which
have gone to 111 different countries. But consumers in Africa and Central and South America — who typically import very little U.S. meat now — are a growing opportunity for U.S. meat exports, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation Meat exports help U.S. livestock prices in ways that sometimes may go unnoticed, For instance, so-called “variety meats” — items such as livers, hearts, tongues and chicken price — are seldom eaten by U.S. consumers but often are highly valued in other countries, Petry says. What Petry calls “tastes and preferences” is benefitting sheep producers. Growing ethnic and religious demand for lamb has reinvigorated the long-struggling U.S. sheep industry in recent years. Livestock production will remain a volatile industry, with feed costs and weather continuing to buffet ranchers from year to year, he says. Even so, “Looking ahead to the next 20, 30 years, the future is as bright now as I can ever remember,” Petry says.
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Low-stress livestock handling makes safety and economic sense By Jenny Schlecht Agweek Staff Writer JoDee Haala grew up with horses. Now the director of animal well being with Minnesota’s Christensen Farms, one of the largest, family-owned pork producers in the U.S., she often reflects on a common piece of horse wisdom: It’s rarely the horse. It’s usually the rider. Haala’s daily work now is with pigs, not with horses, but the wisdom remains. Human behaviors affect the behaviors of the animals with which they are working. “If we have challenges with our animal handling, we really need to be reflective of what are our behaviors, what are our facilities, what is our mental state,” Haala says. Making sure that livestock are ethically and humanely handled pays off, not only in public relations with consumers but also in terms of safety, meat quality and economic outcomes.
“No. 1, it just makes economic sense. And No. 2, it’s just the right thing to do, period,” says Bill Pelton, who is the state coordinator for Montana Beef Quality Assurance. Pelton ranches near Absarokee, Mont., and runs Bill Pelton Livestock Marketing and Consulting. He says even five years ago, people “looked down their nose at you” if you talked about low-stress livestock handling. But that’s starting to change. “People are really starting to become more aware and more conscientious about how they do it,” he says. Low-stress livestock handling refers to a number of techniques that rely on using an animal’s natural instincts to get them to move, as well as staying calm and quiet while working. “Let your idea be the cow’s idea,” Pelton says. “It makes a big difference in how they handle when they’re gathered and when they’re working
(Erin Brown/Grand Vale Creative) Pigs are intelligent animals, so minimizing distractions that might attract their attention is important when working or loading them, says JoDee Haala, director of animal well being with Minnesota’s Christensen Farms.
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Flower power SD producer lice control made from mums By Mikkel Pates Agweek Staff Writer TRENT, S.D. — Lice and flies are the bane of cattle and their caretakers. So perhaps it’s not so strange that Ted Lacey of Trent, S.D., took the step of alerting Agweek when he found a solution — products of “natural pyrethrins,” made from chrysanthemums grown in Australia and Africa. “I don’t want to gain anything from it other than letting producers know they have something to solve this problem,” Lacey says, on a recent tour at his Trent, S.D., farm. Lacey and his son, Andy, run a herd of about 100 cows and cell graze all of the cattle. They feed only their own calves. The Laceys have about 300 acres of crops. The rest is in alfalfa, hay and pasture land. The farm in the past was known for growing potatoes
on land that has been irrigated since 1948. Lacey’s awakening came in January 2016. “We treated the cattle with a pouron (for lice and worms) and six weeks later, mid-February we had a lice outbreak,” Lacey says. Ted attended a first-of-its-kind meeting last spring on lice put on by Dells Veterinary Services of nearby Dell Rapids, S.D., and the rest is history.
Lice crowd! Dan Dorn, manages the veterinary clinic where his wife, Corale, is the primary veterinarian. Dorn says that over the past several years winters have been warmer or there have been “streaks of warm weather,” and traditional lice controls have failed. “We don’t know if it’s weather, or
(Forum News Service/Agweek/Mikkel Pates) Ted Lacey created a structure that houses a cattle “oiler,” that applies a brand of natural pyrethrins (ULD BP-100) to control lice and flies. Cattle must walk under the oiler to get to water. Photo taken Oct. 30, 2017, at Trent, S.D.
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Cattle drive brings friends and family together By Shawna Olson versus hauling them, especially in AgweekTV weather like this ... it would probaWhen winter comes, it’s time for bly take us three or four days to haul ranchers to move their cattle out them, whereas this way, we can get it of pastures and bring them home. done in one day,” says Johnson. Many use pickups and trailers, but the The Johnson cattle drive has been Johnson family at the Johnson Stock taking place for many years. Farm near Sharon, N.D., does it the “We can’t get an exact date, but old-fashioned way — with a cattle we think it’s been about 35 years drive. or more,” Johnson says. “It It’s likely the largest catstarted out with me and five tle drive in eastern North of my best friends. Then Dakota. as people heard about it, Keith Johnson with the everybody wants to come.” Johnson Stock Farm has For Johnson, this day is a been ranching his entire life special one. and says that it’s one of their “Family is huge. I mean biggest days of the year. my whole family’s partic“Today we’ll move almost ipating today. Nephews, 400 cows,” he says. nieces, friends that come People come from all over from all over. Just about all Johnson and his the area to participate, and Keith of my grandkids are here family has been doing an new riders join the drive old-fashioned cattle drive today. It’s fun for me that every year. This year on a at the Johnson Stock they’re interested it,” he snowy day, nearly 30 horse- Farm near Sharon, N.D., says. for nearly 35 years. back riders rode along. An old fashioned cattle Their mission is to move drive like this is a rare sight their herd roughly 14 miles back to in eastern North Dakota, and Johnson their ranch where they can be cared wouldn’t have it any other way: “Our for all winter. place has been a place where friends “It actually saves us a lot of time meet and strangers becomes friends.”
(Trevor Peterson/Agweek) During the cattle drive at the Johnson Stock Farm, nearly 30 horseback riders drove 400 cattle 14 miles to ranch near Sharon, N.D.
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through a processing system.” Haala, who also is vice president of the Minnesota Pork Board, says low-stress handling makes sense for numerous reasons, including ensuring caretaker and animal safety, improving meat quality and making sure the livestock industry lives up to its promises of raising animals in ethical, humane ways. “We are under a microscope for how we handle things,” she says. “We’ve promised our customers that we’re doing the right things.” “There’s a lot of public opinion out there about livestock handling and how cattle are handled and how they shouldn’t be handled,” Pelton says. Here are some tips from Haala and Pelton about how to handle animals: ► Plan appropriately. Haala says to make sure you have enough help and enough time for the task at hand and to make sure facilities are in good shape. ► Minimize distractions that might attract the animals’ attention. “Pigs are curious, intelligent animals,” Haala says. “They’re going to check things out.” ► Keep in mind that livestock are prey animals, on guard for predators,
including their handlers. ► Move livestock in straight lines and avoid 90-degree turns. ► Let animals get comfortable with their facilities and the way you want them to move. Haala says letting pigs walk the alleyway from time to time makes them more familiar with the path when time comes to work them. And Pelton says cattle can be trained in how to react if a rancher practices moving them around in the manner he wants. “It doesn’t take long to teach a pen of cattle to respond to a human being — not out of fear but out of confidence,” he says. ► Stay out of blind spots. ► Don’t pressure constantly. “There’s a time for speed and pressure, but there’s also a time for release,” Pelton says. ► Moving faster and louder won’t make the job go faster. “Slower is always faster,” Pelton says. “Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘If you’re working up a sweat, you’re working too hard,’” Haala says. ► Keep yourself calm, too. “They sense your emotional state,” Haala says. ► Attend a seminar on low-stress handling. Pelton says such classes are well worth the time and provide essential information to improve handling techniques.
(Erin Brown/Grand Vale Creative) Whether the handler is on horseback or on foot, cattle should be moved slowly and calmly, taking into account their natural tendencies, says Bill Pelton, state coordinator for Montana Beef Quality Assurance.
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LICE CONTROL FROM PAGE 6 parasitologist and manager for MWI Animal Health Technical Services in Sioux Falls, S.D., was one of the presenters at the meeting. MWI works with MGK, a manufacturer/ vendor based in Minneapolis. MGK manufacturers ULD BP-100, a liquid extract of the pyrethrum plant (chrysanthemum). They also make Evergreen Pyrethrum Concentrate, a product usable in the organic market. Lance Platt, a South Dakota State University graduate, is market manager for MGK, a company that’s been family-owned for four generations since 1902 and has made insect control products since just after World War II. MGK today develops and markets branded insect control products based primarily on natural pyrethrum and synthetic pyrethroids.
Old is new “Insects haven’t developed widespread resistance to natural pyrethrins despite being used for centuries,” Catangui says. “Many insect species, such as the house fly, can develop resistance against much simpler man-made or laboratory-synthesized insecticides.” Natural pyrethins collectively refer
to the six “ester” molecules simultaneously extracted from the chrysanthemum flowers; any one of these esters can kill insects. Pyrethroids are single manmade “copies” of any of the six naturally occurring esters that comprise pyrethrins. One such synthetic “copy” is permethrin, an insecticide widely used in agriculture for over 40 years now. There is little known resistance to natural pyrethrins in the field despite centuries of use. Insects can usually develop resistance to any man-made insecticides within five years, if used continuously every growing season. Because there can be differences in the compounds based on where the chrysanthemums are grown (much like wine grapes) they include different levels, which helps keep them effective. Dorn says they’re coming into more prominence in part because the price has come down from where they were a decade ago.
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Soil is a Biological System
Soil Health: the capacity of the soil to function, inltrate water and cycle nutrients Reduce soil disturbance Increase plant, animal diversity Maintain living roots in the soil Keep soil covered with plants and residue •• feed soil organisms •• prevent eroison •• foster water, nutrient savings
Water Infiltration Rate SWND Soil Health Demonstration Project J. Stika, T. Stroh
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Crop Rotations and Beef Cattle Grazing on diverse crop rotation while continuous wheat yield declined $ return: Average annual return of diverse crop rotation is $85/ac. vs. continuous wheat $70/ac. Increased beef gain: Currently, 105 days of 2.1 lbs/day beef gain when grazing annual crops.
6 4 2 0
2008
Grazing stimulates plants Plants energize soil microbes Soil microbes renew land
S. Senturklu, D. Landblom, L. Cihacek, E. Brevik
Yield increase: Wheat yield increased
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2008-2016 (NDSU-SCD-NRCS)
Rangeland Soil Health
Twice-over grazing system increases: •• secondary plant shoots •• forage production per acre •• available plant nitrogen
Forage Production/Acre The Renewability of Grazingland Ecosystems Llewellyn L. Manske
Pounds of Forage/Acre
Cropland Soil Health
2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 Season Long Twice Over System
2016
Plant Nitrogen Availability 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0
The Renewability of Grazingland Ecosystems Llewellyn L. Manske
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2008
2008-2016 (NDSU-SCD-NRCS)
2016
Using scientic methods to explore the many diverse possibilities to nd sensible, solutions that are sustainable and based on sound stewardship.
Pounds/Acre
180
Plant Nitrogen Availability
SWND Soil Health Demonstration Project J. Stika, T. Stroh
100 75 50 25 0 Season Long Twice Over System
Understanding Soil Health Is The Future of Agriculture!
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