Bullish traders also priced in what that think will be no worse than $90- per-hundredweight cash-cattle prices, based on profitable beef packer margins and Tuesday’s wholesale beef buying interest rush.

Cash-basis cattle bid from packers cropped up at $89 to $90 per hundredweight versus $93 to $94 offers from cattle sellers. Fed cattle last week sold for $91 to mostly $92.

Futures made a bullish statement after spot-April overshot the 10-day moving average resistance target with the help of spreading into the contract out of deferred months. Actively-traded June surpassed recent highs on the way to a nine-month top.

April and June also touched off buy orders what were waiting above the market.

Far cattle months finished positively on spreading into December out of October. Plus, the weak dollar underpinned distant cattle contracts because of the implication for improved beef exports ahead.

April live cattle closed up 105 points, or 1.1%, at 92.77 cents. June ended up 65 points, or 0.7%, at 91.25 cents.

Feeder cattle finished higher on live cattle’s upturn and more buying after futures’ steep run up Monday.

Steady-to-stronger cash feeder cattle prices, and spreaders who bought May and sold March, contributed for market advances that launched all months except March to new contract highs.

Source: www.cattlenetwork.com

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Perry Farms Fences

Fences are constructed to confine or restrict. Confinement is good for animals that need protection from the environment or predators. Restriction can provide safety from dangerous entities or habitats that may lead to injury.

I construct physical fences on Perry Farms to provide safety for our livestock. These fences act as barriers or safe-havens from poisonous plants or hazardous highways close to our farm. All of our physical fences have a purpose, just like all faculties on our farm.

Some fences are not visible with the human eye, these fences are not physical, and they are not constructed of wooden posts, barbed wire, and staples. I am referring to the fences we (humans) build that restrict our movement or ability to grow. Mental barriers can become more confining that any amount of steel or wood ever erected. Barriers can limit us from expanding our horizons, enhancing our education or growing to reach full potential.

We always remind ourselves and our children that the only fences on Perry Farms are the physical ones, there are no limitations to potential. Children need positive reinforcement from adults. This guidance and security enables them to grow without restrictions, devise new and better ways to overcome failures and become successful.

In a world full of negatives or fences, it’s critical that Perry Farms exude a positive outlook for our children,while providing a good education with unlimited opportunities to grow and learn.

Perry Farms has fences, but only physical ones; our potential is unrestricted, our prosperity is imminent.

Jeff Davies

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Now, University of Missouri scientists say there’s another reason to plant them. They say the buffers can mitigate the potential risk of routine use of antibiotics in livestock.

Keith Goyne, an assistant professor of soil chemistry, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the buffers can prevent antibiotics from leaching into water resources.

Some scientists are concerned that antibiotic use in livestock could lead to antibiotic-resistant diseases in humans.

The researchers found that buffer strips can reduce up to 80 percent of antibiotics in an animal’s manure, and that certain plants are especially good at dissipating the substances

Source: http://www.cattlenetwork.com

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