Spring
Date: Apr 02 2015
| Blog & CalvingPosts by Miranda Reiman :
Precondition for performance, quality, cash
Date: Mar 23 2015
| Cattle Feeding & Feeder Calf Marketing & News Release & Pre-conditioningIt’s been talked about for 60 years. It’s better for animals, preferred by most cattle feeders and could provide a 169% return on investment. “2014 was the biggest ‘no brainer’ year in history to precondition your calves,” says Purdue University veterinarian W. Mark Hilton. “2015 could be even better.” Crunching the numbers, Hilton first turns to an 11-year analysis of Indiana beef herds that showed weight alone added $50.84 average profit on preconditioned calves.
Trading ski hills for Eagle Hills
Date: Mar 16 2015
| Big Thinkers & Blog & CalvingMeet Jessie Rudolph. Calving season keeps this high school sophomore home this time of year, but doesn’t keep her from expanding her horizons.
No bidders
Date: Mar 09 2015
| Blog & Pre-conditioning & Stockmanship & WeaningAt his Cattlemen’s College session last month, I heard Mark present a pretty convincing case for preconditioning (a 11-year analysis of Indiana producers showed a profit of more than $80 per head, on average for 60+ day programs, for example).
But it wasn’t just about the economics of it all. It was about the principle.
Beef beyond our borders
Date: Feb 25 2015
| Blog & Cattle Markets & Consumer Connection$352 per head.
Why is that number significant?
That’s what exports added to each beef animal in 2014.
We can cook and we love beef
Date: Feb 23 2015
| Blog & Consumer Connection & ResearchAll through college I heard ag speakers and many a professor talk about the fact that young people just don’t know how to cook beef.
Stacks and knowledge grow in tandem
Date: Feb 12 2015
| Blog & Consumer ConnectionYou know when you come back from a conference and you’re all caught up and have plenty of time to make sense of all the good information you took in? Yeah, me neither.
Permission to straightbreed
Date: Jan 21 2015
| Big Thinkers & BlogBut year after year, our team visits intelligent, strategic-minded ranchers who are not only making money with straight Angus, but who are making more money with a single breed.
Taking it up a notch
Date: Jan 15 2015
| About the brand & Blog & Consumer ConnectionThat’s why when Kelly—now as assistant director of foodservice marketing for CAB–and the team were charged with bringing Certified Angus Beef ® brand education to sales forces across the country, they reinvented the typical training session by developing the CAB Meat Lab.
Wordless Wednesday: Winter wonder and cowherd splendor
Date: Dec 31 2014
| BlogWhen the wind is calm, and the snow falls gently, feeding the cows becomes a beautiful thing.