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May 11, 2012
How Will Texas' Cattle Crisis and Rising Beef Prices Test Dallas' Love for Steak?
This January, the Houston Press ran a prophetic story about last summer's drought and its coming effects on beef prices. Katherine Shilcutt's story, like our own Brantley Hargrove's story did a few months before, described Texas ranchers who sold off their cattle when the costs associated with raisi ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Pink Slime Economics: A Local Cattleman on How Beef Prices will Rise, and Why That's OK
Yesterday the farming trade publication Farm Futures carried a story on the potential rise in beef prices after the recent uproar over pink slime, or LFTB (lean finely textured beef). CattleFax, a beef industry research group, estimates the pink slime news cycle "is costing the U.S. beef industry $1 ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2011
Hammered by the Drought, Texas Ranchers Are Running Out of Cows to Send to Slaughter
Brandon ThibodeauxSince we started catching rain in pans and writing down measurements, Texas has never gotten so little rainfall as we have this year. As we reported in our recent story on the cattle industry, we're in uncharted territory. That's why, in August, experts were anticipating ano ... More >>
News
September 29, 2011
The Long, Dry Fall of the Texas Rancher
Ranchers are struggling to hold on to their herds during the driest year in Texas history.
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Lessons in Recessionomics: Beef Prices, a Historic Drought and Hamburger
As my grandfather would say, "It's drier than a popcorn fart." We're smack-dab in the middle of the worst one-year drought ever. The costliest too. Feed prices are nearly unaffordable. Stock tanks are drying up. But the final boot to the gut of the Texas rancher never came. It's the strange artifac ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2009
Down On The Grass-Fed Farm: The Beef May Be Better, But It's Still Damn Hard Work
Jayme RutledgeMarguerite Robbins with her cattle. Sweat pours down Marguerite's sun-baked face. She feels briars scratching through her dusty jeans. The buzzing and biting of mosquitoes is maddening. So is the old fence lining one of the back pastures. It's broken again. Marguerite stops wha ... More >>
Calendar
January 25, 2007
The Cows Come Home
Jayme RutledgeMarguerite Robbins with her cattle. Sweat pours down Marguerite's sun-baked face. She feels briars scratching through her dusty jeans. The buzzing and biting of mosquitoes is maddening. So is the old fence lining one of the back pastures. It's broken again. Marguerite stops wha ... More >>
News
April 15, 2004
How Now Mad Cow?
For Texas cattle ranchers, "What's for dinner?" is a touchy question
Dining
January 15, 2004
Kobe Spam?
The steak house is going Wagyu
News
September 27, 2001
Corraled
The USDA backs off its tough new meat-inspection standards. That's a good thing, beef producers say.
News
January 11, 2001
Off the Killing Floor
Dallas-based Supreme Beef wins a major round in its court battle with the USDA
News
December 21, 2000
Slaughterhouse Jive
Dallas-based Supreme Beef fought what it believes are unfair regulations, only to wind up on the USDA's killing floor
Best of Dallas
September 21, 2000
Best hamburger (tie)
Angry Dog & Jake's Old Fashioned Burgers and Beer
News
February 12, 1998
Bull--it's what's for dinner
The cows aren't the only ones pumping out manure in windy Amarillo, where Oprah is giving the cattlemen a lesson in steer wrestling

Cattle Ranching

Blogs

How Will Texas' Cattle Crisis and Rising Beef Prices Test Dallas' Love for Steak?

Blogs

Pink Slime Economics: A Local Cattleman on How Beef Prices will Rise, and Why That's OK

Blogs

Hammered by the Drought, Texas Ranchers Are Running Out of Cows to Send to Slaughter

News

The Long, Dry Fall of the Texas Rancher

Blogs

Lessons in Recessionomics: Beef Prices, a Historic Drought and Hamburger

Blogs

Down On The Grass-Fed Farm: The Beef May Be Better, But It's Still Damn Hard Work

Calendar

The Cows Come Home

News

How Now Mad Cow?

Dining

Kobe Spam?

News

Corraled

News

Off the Killing Floor

News

Slaughterhouse Jive

Best of Dallas

Best hamburger (tie)

News

Bull--it's what's for dinner

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