The family enjoys the beef it raises but stops short of Smith butchering the beef, a skill he set aside to handle the cattle and poultry responsibilities. Smith's intrigue with farm life began while he was in high school, working in the family's cattle farming business. We wanted to grow our own beef to sell in the store so we raised it ourselves. He survived that rocky start and now laments the current woes of the overall economy affecting farmers, especially his neighbors and friends who...

It is a fantastic sight; lots of young men dressed in white- a red belt around their wastes to indicate their intention to run- and lots and lots of bulls. The running of the bulls is a festival that was supposed to end in the final bull fight for later that evening; during the day this event serves as a rite of passage for many young men who idealized the bull fighters, and the evening was reserved for the latter to risk their lives before driving a sword through the bull's abdomen. The...

Businesses operating in the petroleum, natural gas, and electricity industries are particularly susceptible to market risk--or more specifically, price risk--as a consequence of the extreme volatility of energy commodity prices according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) Is this something quite acceptable to the oil industry? This continuation of Rite of Spring focuses on the oil industry forces, challenges, changes, strategic choices and skills that create value. Businesses...

Cattle herds already have shrunk drastically since the often-violent seizures and thousands of white-owned farms disrupted the agriculture-based economy in 2000. Shelves in stores across the country were bare of cornmeal, bread, meat and other staples on Monday as police and government inspectors continued raiding shops and businesses. Mandipaka appealed to rural villagers and farmers "to compliment government efforts by reducing prices of cattle so butcheries can operate viably," radio...

Steve Grabaki, a fisheries consultant and president of Graystar Pacific Seafood in Anchorage, said the adverse publicity about seafood processed in China will give seafood processed in the United States a slight competitive market advantage, but who knows for how long. Steve Grabaki, a fisheries consultant and president of Graystar Pacific Seafood in Anchorage, said the adverse publicity about seafood processed in China will give seafood processed in the United States a slight competitive...