Posts by CAB Cattle Crew :

The Angus taste of quality

Date: Oct 27 2018

Extending a 14-year streak of year-over-year growth and the third year for sales above 1 billion pounds, the first and largest branded beef company reported record sales of 1.21 billion pounds in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, ending Sept. 30. That was an 8.1% increase, or 91 million pounds.

Doctor’s orders

Date: Oct 27 2018

A packer buyer’s favorite cross

Date: Oct 18 2018

Grid marketing, ranch view

Date: Oct 03 2018

Hitting a target takes practice, careful calibrations, attempts and recalibrations over time. Cow-calf producers make decisions every day, but how many of those relate to the calves’ ability to realize their potential and hit a high-quality beef target? At the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand’s Feeding Quality Forum this summer in Sioux City, Iowa, the brand’s own beef cattle specialist, Paul Dykstra, summarized the rancher’s dilemma.

Vitamins, part of doing the right thing

Date: Sep 21 2018

Vitamins are essential in keeping cattle healthy year-round. Past price spikes have producers looking at savings along with concerns about source and efficacy over time. Jeff Heldt, with Micronutrients Intellibond, explored cost-effective vitamin and mineral strategies.

Doctor’s orders

Date: Aug 06 2018

The Taste, part II

Date: Aug 03 2018

Edd and Nina Hendee were out to dinner, three kids in tow. It was 35 years ago and Edd can still recall, “It was one of the worst meals I’ve ever put in my mouth. Not to mention the service was ghastly.”

The Taste, part I

Date: Aug 02 2018

Have you ever met the president? Me neither, but a trip to Houston’s Taste of Texas left me feeling like I had.

Nothing owed

Date: Jul 30 2018

Groups more humble than cattlemen and women are few and far between, but I’ve often heard ranchers called “salt of the Earth” people.

Dreamers and doers

Date: Jul 25 2018

If you could have one wish, any wish, what would it be? More resources, greater assets, the best genetics or something else?