This is Megan Silveira, assistant editor for the Angus Journal, with the October 31, 2022, update from the AJ Daily. Today’s update contains a story about the 2022 CAB Feedyard Commitment to Excellence Award winner, a report on freight costs, and an announcement from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association naming inductees of the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame.
Triangle H Accepts the 2022 CAB Feedyard Commitment to Excellence Award
Adapted from a release by Morgan Boecker, Certified Angus Beef
Cattle have a way of stirring the soul. It happened when Marisa Kleysteuber was riding through the cows checking for heats. The weight of this responsibility was light as a kid, but her dream to one day make decisions took shape as she sat horseback beside her dad.
For most of her life, she’s followed in her father’s footsteps.
Sam Hands attended Kansas State University (K-State) for animal science with a business option. Three decades later, so did his daughter. He was a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) student at K-State and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army to serve in Vietnam. He made his way back to Kansas in 1973. His daughter earned a master’s in ruminant nutrition before coming home in the mid-2000s.
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Freight Discussion
Adapted from a release by Len Steiner, Steiner Consulting Group
Freight costs remain a major challenge for the industry at large and unfortunately, despite the recent pullback in crude oil prices, it appears freight costs are likely to remain elevated at least through the winter. A recent update from the U.S. Energy Administration put distillate inventories (diesel, heating oil) at just 106 million barrels, well below the five-year range and also at the low end of the range for the last forty years. Tight inventories continue to underpin diesel and heating oil prices. The average heating oil price for the week was pegged at $5.704 per gallon, up 68% compared to a year ago.
For the full report, go to dailylivestockreport.com.
Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame Announces 2023 Inductees
Adapted from a release by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame inductees and industry award winners will be honored on Jan. 31, 2023, during the 14th annual banquet, which precedes the 2023 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in New Orleans, Feb. 1-3. The Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame was established in 2009 to honor the exceptional visionary men and women who have made lasting contributions to the cattle-feeding industry.
Hall of Fame inductees for 2023 include Jerry Adams with Adams Land and Cattle in Broken Bow, Neb., and the late Ed Barrett of Barrett Crofoot Feedyards in Hereford, Texas. Thomas “Dee” Likes, former CEO of the Kansas Livestock Association, will receive the Industry Leadership Award, and Terry Wegner with Drinnin West Cattle Co. will receive the Arturo Armendariz Distinguished Service Award.
For more information go to ncba.org.
The AJ Daily is compiled by Paige Nelson, field editor for theAngus Journal. For more Angus news, visit angusjournal.net.