Win a $100 Gift Certificate 
If your favorite restaurant places in the "Top 10", you could win a $100 gift certificate for a great steak dinner.
Beef lovers should vote for their favorite restaurant in the "Mississippi's Best Steak" Contest.
Vote now at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BestSteakinMississippi
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MSU Extension Services' Farmweek featured coverage of the Mississippi State football team getting a taste of life on the farm as cattlemen treated the players to a steak dinner.
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Last Chance to Learn at Lunch
concludes this week with tomorrow's session, "Minerals for the Stocker Operation" by Dr. Lawton Stewart, Univ. of Georgia and "Minerals and the Cow Herd" on Thursday by Dr. Phillip Lancaster, Univ. of Florida.
View from your computer or your local Extension office.
Nutrition topics will be covered every Tuesday and Thursday in September from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Presenters are from Universities across the country, and recognized as experts in their fields.
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The answer to "What's for dinner?".
Total recipe time:25-30 minutes
Makes 6 servings
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17th Annual Field Day
Marshall County Cattlemen's Association will co-host the " Cattle and Timber: Hand in Hand" field day Saturday, September 28 on the Calvin Ozier Farm in Holly Springs. Senator Melanie Sojourner, Forestry Committee Chair, will be the keynote speaker. Pre-registration at 662-252-3541 is required. |
Hay Contest 
Entries in the Mississippi Forage & Grassland Council Hay Contest are due by October 4. Details are available online.Also due by October 4 are nominations for the Grasslander Award. To be given at the annual meeting in Hattiesburg on November 15, this award recognizes a forage/livestock producer that is taking the lead on great grazing/livestock management practices to be more sustainable. To become a member of the Mississippi Forage & Grassland Council, please visit their website.
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Freezer Beef
The MSU Livestock Judging Team now has freezer beef (same quality as previous steers) that can be sold whole, side or quartered. The cost will be $2.05/lb based on the hot carcass weight.
It can be cut and wrapped however you would like and the carcass will have a good dry age of about 28 days. There are 5 sides of the judging team steers left to move. Contact Kipp Brown at kippb@ext.msstate.edu
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 Heart of Texas Sale
Saturday, October 5
Groesbeck, Texas
1,350 head
of quality replacement females
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Dr. John Michael Riley
September 20, 2013
Cattle:
Cash fed cattle were mostly steady this week. Live cattle were reported up $1 at $124 in the Southern Plains. Not enough trade has been reported to call a trend in Nebraska or Iowa. The five area live steer price was $122.70, down $0.30. In Oklahoma City on Monday, feeder steers sold $3-5 higher; feeder heifers were steady to $1 higher; and calves were mostly steady. Mississippi feeder steers were called $3-$10 lower for the week and feeder heifers were $2-$5 lower. Cows were $1-$5 lower and bulls were $1-$3 lower. Futures:
Live and feeder cattle futures finished the week higher (excluding the front month feeder cattle contract). Most live and feeder contracts started the week higher before slipping to close the day Monday and again on Tuesday, then rallied to close the week. The Federal Reserve Board announced Wednesday they would continue to attempt to ease the economic woes in the U.S. Most had expected a pull back by the Fed, and so markets rallied, including cattle futures. Also during the week there was positioning ahead of the Cattle on Feed report, which showed significantly fewer cattle on inventory than expected (more detail here). Expect markets to open higher due to the on feed report (barring outside market issues).
Corn futures were lower again this week. The big crop that just will not shrink continues to pressure the market. Crop conditions remain favorable and exports are weak, neither of which are helping prices.
Beef:
Wholesale boxed beef prices were lower again this week. Choice finished with a weekly average of $192.94, down $0.77, while Select dipped lower to $176.31, off $1.89.
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September 24 Pontotoc CCA 24 Learn at Lunch 24 Warren, Jefferson, Claiborne CCA 26 Winston CCA 26 Scott CCA 26 Learn at Lunch 28 Marshall Field Day October
2-13 State Fair 17-19 AI School, MSU
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