Beef market wants more Prime
Date: Jun 09 2014
Breeding Health & Cattle Markets & News ReleaseWhen corn prices moved up a few years ago, many predicted cattle finishers would reduce days on feed and quality grades would suffer. Neither happened.
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Demand for CAB more than doubles 2002 levels
Date: May 19 2014
Consumer Connection & News ReleaseA consumer demand model for high-quality beef shows the market power behind a leading premium brand.
From ‘happy accidents’ to intentional beef quality
Date: May 05 2014
Consumer Connection & News Release & ResearchAnderson presented his paper, “External Influences on North American Beef Production: How Will the Cattle Feeding Industry Adapt?” last month.
From ‘happy accidents’ to intentional beef quality
Date: May 05 2014
News Release & Post Weaning & Premium Potential & ResearchDoing more with less. In the cattle business, that’s more than a nice idea; it’s the new survival plan.
“In any manufacturing system, if the number of units is reduced, the revenue per unit must increase,” said Pete Anderson, director of research for Midwest PMS, a U.S. livestock feed company. “The cattle industry must focus on maximizing revenue from each animal produced.”
Cattle Industry Convention sets mood
Date: Feb 13 2014
Consumer Connection & NCBA Convention & News ReleaseCall it optimism or happiness or a light-hearted spring in your step….the term doesn’t matter, last week at the Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show you could feel it.
Where Back fat, marbling and money meet
Date: Oct 07 2013
Consumer Connection & Grid Marketing & News Release & ResearchIt’s a wonder any cattle feeder can judge the marbling inside the ribeye by guessing fat thickness just under the hide. I
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.
Competing with quality
Date: Sep 24 2013
Big Thinkers & Breeding & News ReleaseFrom the bright lights and shining hardwood of a basketball court to the cedar shavings of an auction ring, if there’s one ideal Pat Goggins believes in, it’s competition. Growing up the youngest of six boys born to sharecroppers can do that. It could come from his love of athletics or his early start as one of the most sought-after purebred auctioneers in the country, but whatever gave him that drive, the result is somewhat of an empire around a Billings, Mont., base. At the center is the Vermilion Ranch, where adding value to customer cattle helped earn the 2013 Seedstock Commitment to Excellence Award at the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand annual conference in Palm Desert, Calif., Sept. 18-20.
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.
Where realistic meets high quality
Date: Sep 24 2013
Cattle Feeding & News Release & Post WeaningFord County Feed Yard is a big one. In fact, Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB) has never licensed a larger feedyard, but the 50,000-head-capacity business runs like a collection of smaller yards. Maybe that’s because it is family owned and operated, and 22-year manager Danny Herrmann is the youngest son of a founding partner. Wheat-stocker and feeder George Herrmann went in with four others, including three from what later became National Beef in Dodge City, to build the feedyard 15 miles to the southeast, near Ford, Kan., starting in 1972.