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Burt Rutherford

Senior Editor, BEEF Magazine

Burt has more than 35 years of experience communicating about beef industry issues. A Colorado native and graduate of Colorado State University with a degree in agricultural journalism, he now works from his home base in Amarillo, Texas, in the heart of cattle feeding country. He worked as communications director for the North American Limousin Foundation and editor of the Western Livestock Journal before spending 21 years as communications director for the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.

Burt’s Recent activity

A new look for our website online
BEEF’s new look
Dec 07, 2016
When you opened our website at beefmagazine.com today, you no doubt noticed it looks a little different than what you’re used to. And that’s a good thing...
Check out BEEF’s weekly cattle market wrap-up
Check out BEEF’s weekly cattle market wrap-up
Nov 17, 2016
With volatile cattle markets now a fact of life for cattle producers, keeping up with the trends that affect your bottom line is more important than ever. BEEF’s new audio reports on trends in the feeder cattle and...
Are you ready for the VFD?
Are you ready for the VFD?
Nov 16, 2016
In just a few weeks, the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) will become effective. That means, when Jan. 1, 2017, rolls around, everyone in the cattle business will face a new and different landscape regarding the use of...
Wholesome beef
Prominent scientists scold cancer research as outmoded
Oct 26, 2016
"This hazard-identification only process places chemicals with widely differing potencies and very different modes of action into the same category," according to Alan Boobis, a professor in the Department of Medicine...
Cow nutrition
What’s the big deal about fetal programming?
Oct 12, 2016
Any beef producer who’s been in the business a while has seen it happen. There’s a group of heifers from a certain year that just seem to be better than the rest of the herd. Then there’s that other group of heifers...
Cattle and wind energy
Are ranchers spitting into the wind on wind energy issues?
Sep 21, 2016
Just as with water, energy development in the West has become, in some camps at least, a controversial and divisive issue as ranchers, energy developers, sportsmen, conservationists and environmentalists all look at...
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