How’d they grade?
Date: Dec 20 2011
| BlogIn today’s world, where a larger share of the cattle are marketed on a grid and paid premiums for what the market wants, “How’d they grade?” means what percentage of USDA Choice were in the harvest mix.
Posts by CAB Cattle Crew :
Beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
Date: Dec 19 2011
| Blog & Cattle MarketsOnly a small amount of cash trade occurred this week as packers and feeders were unable to agree upon prices. Packers are buying for two Holiday-shortened weeks that are projected to run only 32 hours of production each week.
Social society
Date: Dec 15 2011
| ResearchPeople are tweeting, posting, uploading, checking in, and sharing information 24 hours a day. In fact, by reading this post you are among the two-thirds of online adults using social media in 2011.
Holiday beef shopping done?
Date: Dec 12 2011
| Cattle MarketsThe live cattle market showed its first indication of seasonal weakness coming off of holiday highs. Fed cattle traded at $120 in the South and at $121 in the North, approximately $4/cwt less than the previous week.
Hollering for Help!
Date: Dec 09 2011
| BlogSharing interests, data, information, research, pricing will move us forward. In the end, it will benefit all of us involved, and will make it better for the end user.
More choices, less Choice beef
Date: Dec 07 2011
| News ReleaseA wider price gap between Select grade boxed beef and Choice or better—the Choice/Select spread—always comes back to supply and demand. Consumers vote with their dollars, and recent shifts in merchandising put much more high-quality beef on the ballot, just as those supplies began to fall off.
The grill’s best friend
Date: Dec 05 2011
| Consumer ConnectionWhen consumers hit the retail meat case, cut, color and consistency often guide their beef buying decisions. Cut influences cooking method, flavor, tenderness and price.
Weekly harvest increases, still short
Date: Dec 05 2011
| Cattle MarketsPackers held bids until late last week, but live cattle prices did not sag much while waiting. Packers increased harvest by 16,000 head over that weeks’ holiday-shortened numbers, but still fell well short of the previous year.
Darnall quality aim honored
Date: Nov 30 2011
| News ReleaseOne of the first and best Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB) feeding partners, Darnall Feedlot, Harrisburg, Neb., was known for quality even before licensing in early 1999. Gary and Lane Darnall, father and son, signed on with their 20,000-head yard and quickly gained a wider reputation for consistent quality.
Beef build quality, profit
Date: Nov 28 2011
| News ReleaseCanadian feedlots and ranchers can cooperate to improve beef produced from cowherds across the nation, all in the interest of profitably growing demand. Domestically and around the world, the beef already has a reputation for unsurpassed safety and traceability, along with the high quality of grain feeding.