Over the past decade, feeder cattle backgrounders in the Pacific
Northwest have been subject to sharp price fluctuations for their
output. The result has been variable profits and losses. This
situation creates a need for management and marketing techniques
which can provide Pacific Northwest cattle ranchers with protection
against price...
Fluctuating feeder cattle prices have a direct affect on the
revenue variability of feeder cattle producers. Hedging in the commodity
futures market is a marketing strategy which can, if properly used, reduce
the financial risk of feeder cattle producers. If the closing
basis value is known when a hedge is...
The cattle industry in the Pacific Northwest is characterized by a large number of producers. Individual contributions to the market have little effect in moderating potential fluctuations in the prices received for the various classes of cattle. Price volatility is of constant concern to producers in planning future production, with...
Faced with declining milk prices, dairy farmers in the Western States have trimmed feed costs by feeding bulk commodities and byproducts. How effective is this cost-cutting tool, and what problems does the dairy operator face in feeding bulk feeds?
Published March 1980. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published August 1983. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
The material in this supplement is prepared to update and broaden that
originally published in 1983 as Oregon State University Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin 659, Adjusting and Forecasting Herbage Yields in the Intermountain
Big Sagebrush Region of the Steppe Province. The supplement
consists of five sections. Section 1 adds data...