Tweetin’ in Nashville
Date: Jan 05 2012
| Blog & NCBA ConventionI think it’s time to start a countdown… only 26 more days until the kickoff of the 2012 National Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA trade show!
Posts by CAB Cattle Crew :
Bold new year for beef
Date: Jan 03 2012
| The Meat MarketLive cattle prices jumped after Christmas to $122 as the futures market took a significant turn on Thursday going limit up.
6 million more cattle?
Date: Jan 02 2012
| Cattle Markets & News ReleaseSupply and demand may seem like just concepts from a dusty book. But in today’s cattle market, those fundamentals govern profit and loss, and point toward the future.
A blog-iversary; hits of 2011
Date: Dec 29 2011
| BlogNow one year in 2011, 158 posts and nearly 15,000 views later, it’s a pleasure to wish the Black Ink blog a happy blog-iversary.
How’d they grade? (Part Deux)
Date: Dec 27 2011
| BlogAs animals age, tenderness in their muscle decreases. Age becomes very important. Using the Beef Carcass Grading Overview as our guide, one can look at how USDA classifies maturity of beef carcasses.
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.
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.