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Wes Ishmael

Contributing Editor, Penton Media, Inc.

Among the industry’s most insightful thinkers, Wes Ishmael concentrates on industry price and market perspectives for BEEF magazine. Along with his monthly “Cattle Economics” column, he also writes the BEEF Stocker Trends electronic newsletter, coordinates the National Stocker Award competition, and contributes to the Beef Stocker USA website produced by BEEF and Kansas State University. A BEEF contributing editor since 1999, he’s been involved with livestock publications since 1983. Wes grew up in Colorado and has always been in and around the livestock business; he now lives at Benbrook, TX.

Wes’s Recent activity

Beef producers: Ask the right questions
Beef producers: Ask the right questions
Nov 28, 2016
“We took everything we thought we knew about the game, everything we thought made a championship player, everything we thought made a great team, all of the clichés in our industry we’d grown up to believe, and we...
Are we a nation divided?
Are we a nation divided?
Nov 22, 2016
While history will continue to analyze this year’s presidential election, ad nauseam no doubt, a couple of things seem clear: the majority of the nation wanted change; the opinion of the majority of the nation...
Fear and faltering cattle prices
Fear and faltering cattle prices
Nov 01, 2016
“The beef industry’s transition to larger beef supplies in 2016 has been challenging,” says Derrell Peel, Extension livestock marketing specialist at Oklahoma State University, in early October market comments. “A...
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