Date: May 09 2013
Blog & Consumer ConnectionYesterday, Debbie Lyons-Blythe was sharing processing day on the ranch, as part of our “Day in the Life” series. Today we pick back up, just as the cattle are about to head down the highway.
Date: May 07 2013
Blog & Consumer Connection & EPDsToday, Debbie Lyons-Blythe, who regularly updates her blog “Life on a Kansas Cattle Ranch,” gives us a snapshot of what Sunday looked like at their place.
Date: Apr 25 2013
Blog & Consumer ConnectionToday, we conclude Paul’s advice on carcass data that matters. Muscling, primarily represented as ribeye area in carcass data, is an important element for producers to focus on.
Date: Apr 24 2013
Blog & Consumer ConnectionCarcass data. It’s both an awesome tool and, at times, an overwhelming puzzle piece that you just don’t know where to fit into your breeding and culling decisions.
Date: Apr 17 2013
Blog & Consumer ConnectionDegrees of separation…how many is it? Six? Seven? I don’t remember, but it is unbelievable how small the beef industry world is.
Date: Apr 11 2013
Cattle Markets & Consumer Connection & News ReleaseBeing good at what you do every time is no accident. “My dad said anyone can sell something once,” Prof. John Siebert told his ag business class. “It’s selling something multiple times to the same person that takes a lot of work and expertise.” On March 19, the Texas A&M agricultural economist asked four links in the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand supply chain to share their experiences: CAB president John Stika; rancher James Henderson of Bradley 3 Ranch; Joe Boutte, director of business development for Houston-based Freedman Meats Inc.; and Ric Rosser, concept/executive chef for Saltgrass Steakhouse and West Coast Claim Jumper.
Date: Apr 10 2013
Consumer Connection“The Relevance of Marbling to the Beef Industry” appeared on Meatingplace.com last month as a response to the fact that beef quality grades and marbling don’t get the street credit they deserve.
Date: Apr 08 2013
Consumer Connection & News ReleaseSince its inception in 1978, the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand has become perhaps the most recognizable worldwide. And for the past 21 years, Tracey Erickson has had a major hand in that unprecedented rise in the food world. She guided CAB’s entry into male-dominated foreign markets in the early 1990s as International Director, and since then, as Vice President of Marketing, Erickson has led the initiatives that resulted in today’s global presence.
Date: Apr 08 2013
Cattle Markets & Consumer Connection & News ReleaseYou decide. Each time you buy a bull, keep a heifer or cull a cow, you choose a future for your herd and, collectively, for a beef industry that is either blessed or burdened with high prices. “I don’t want record prices because of the lowest beef supplies in 50-some-odd years, said a University of Missouri livestock economist. “I want the highest price because demand is pulling us along.” Most everybody in the cattle business would want what Scott Brown wants. There were certainly nods of agreement at the March 12 Midwest Section, American Society of Animal Scientists meetings in Des Moines, Iowa.
Date: Apr 02 2013
Blog & Consumer ConnectionOn March 19th in College Station, Texas (a.k.a. Aggieland), I attended a forum set up by agricultural economics professor Dr. Siebert.
