Challenges aside, good news plentiful
Date: Nov 11 2013
| Blog & Consumer Connection & Hot topicsDuring this informal gathering, he shared lots of good news and spoke to some of the challenges we face as we promote the best beef on the planet.
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Becoming an insider
Date: Oct 24 2013
| About the brand & Blog & Consumer ConnectionLooking back as an outsider then, and now someone who knows a little bit more, I notice all the things that I wouldn’t have before.
McPherson County, as in Feeders
Date: Oct 23 2013
| Blog & Cattle Feeding & Post WeaningLast Saturday afternoon, Gary ventured down to McPherson County Feeders, a stellar CAB Partner located south of Marquette, Kan.
Beating them at their own game
Date: Oct 10 2013
| Blog & Consumer Connection & ResearchWe hear it in beef cattle meetings all the time: What are we going to do about the chicken nugget? But it’s not just the nugget.
Beyond looks: Choosing replacements, part two
Date: Oct 04 2013
| Blog & BreedingToday, we share the second part of Mark’s advice, focusing on the genetics and performance side of choosing replacement heifers.
Beyond looks: Choosing replacements, part one
Date: Oct 03 2013
| Blog & BreedingA good replacement heifer is one of the most important investments a cattleman will make. There’s no doubt phenotype should be a top factor, it shouldn’t be the only one.
Fired up to tell beef’s story
Date: Sep 26 2013
| About the brand & BlogFor the past several years, we’ve welcomed the National Beef Ambassadors into our office in Wooster, Ohio, for their first training activity as a team.
Ethanol byproducts still pay their way in feedlot rations
Date: Sep 25 2013
| Cattle Feeding & Feeding Quality Forum & News Release & NutritionPaying the feed bill has cleaned out bank accounts faster than Jesse James in recent years, as high corn prices left cattlemen everywhere looking for the cheapest, most efficient alternatives. Answering that search, Galen Erickson shared research results and insight on distillers grains at the Feeding Quality Forums in Omaha, Neb., and Garden City, Kan., in August. As of late summer, the ethanol byproducts were selling at near corn prices. Many cattlemen responded by cutting back or removing it, but Erickson, feedlot Extension specialist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said that could be a mistake.
Still at the top in beef quality
Date: Sep 24 2013
| Big Thinkers & Feeder Calf Marketing & News ReleaseIt’s hard to stay at the top. But the “coaches” at Performance Blenders of Jackson, Mo., found ways to work with their team of 130 or more cattle producers to keep a traveling trophy. That’s the Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB) Quality Focus Award for feeding partners with up to 15,000-head capacity. Last year’s drought and resulting high corn prices forced the team to modify a few strategies, but those challenges did not overcome efforts to raise cattle that hit the CAB and Prime target.
Quality up in the face of drought
Date: Sep 24 2013
| News ReleaseWhat’s better than winning first place? Doing that three out of four years, including two in a row and despite one of the worst droughts in history. That’s exactly what Darnall Feedlot, Harrisburg, Neb., managed to do with Quality Focus Awards in 2010, 2012 and 2013 for Certified Angus Beef LLC partners with more than 15,000-head capacity. This year’s mark of 49% Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand and Prime shot past the previous year’s 40% and 33% in 2010.