Date: Sep 26 2025
Big Thinkers & Consumer Connection & Cow Herd & Premium Potential & Targeting the BrandJoanie, with daughter Lindsey and her husband, Adam Hall, raise registered Angus cattle with two primary goals: producing high-quality seedstock that perform well in a wide variety of environments and ensuring end-user satisfaction. Those goals tie everything together, from promoting Angus to other producers to sharing their story with CAB partners and beef consumers.
Date: Sep 26 2025
Big Thinkers & Cow Herd & Grid Marketing & Maternal Function & Premium Potential & Sustainability & Targeting the BrandWhat makes a ranch sustainable? To Jon, it’s simple: the same family, ranching on the same land, for the last 140 years. The Means family never could have done that without sustainability. Responsible usage of water, caring for the land and its wildlife, and destocking their herd while the land recovers from drought.
Date: Sep 26 2025
Big Thinkers & Cattle Feeding & Feeder Calf Marketing & Grid Marketing & Post Weaning & Premium Potential & Retained OwnershipFor Dallas Knobloch, it’s not about being the biggest feedyard—it’s about building a high-quality system that works. Today, with Tory’s wife Sadie and daughter Ivy, the Knobloch family owns and operates 4K Cattle. They feed 2,500 cattle at eight locations within 10 miles of home, manage 1,000 acres of crops and run a 125-head cow herd, all near Hills, Minn.
Date: Jun 10 2025
CAB Connection & Cattle Markets & News Release & Premium PotentialIn an otherwise tough time in the beef business, sales and supply records have been a bright spot. The positive numbers mean that quality beef production has not let up, and beef demand is holding. Consumers have proven the value proposition: the good stuff is worth a little more money, for a better eating experience.
Date: Apr 04 2025
At the Table & NCBA Convention & News Release & Post Weaning & Premium PotentialProgress happens when people are at the table, engaged and committed to action. With a vested interest in the industry’s future, CAB is leaning in on conversations surrounding evolutions in meat science.
Date: Feb 26 2025
About the brand & At the Table & CAB Connection & Cattle Markets & News Release & Premium PotentialEven as the nation’s cow herd contracts, “more pounds” and “higher quality” have been common themes. Specific to commercial cattlemen: It still pays to focus on carcass merit, in addition to other economically relevant traits.
Date: Feb 12 2025
CAB Insider & Premium PotentialAs Prime supplies leapt higher in 2018, continually increasing, the retail grocery sector woke up to the fact that Prime beef cuts could be accessed dependably throughout the year. Prime was no longer reserved for only the high-end restaurant customer. Simply put, creating availability at the grocery level unlocked consumer demand where it hadn’t been tapped before.
Date: Jan 15 2025
CAB Insider & Premium PotentialLaunched in early August 2024, the USDA’s Live Cattle Mandatory Reporting dashboard is still a relatively new tool. The purpose of the web platform is to keep market participants informed of trends in price distribution across regions and between differing quality and yield classes of cattle.
Date: Nov 21 2024
Breeding & Cow Herd & EPDs & Following the Calves & Maternal Function & News Release & Premium PotentialThe Angus breed has enough genetic diversity to allow breeders, and their commercial bull customers, to make progress across multiple traits simultaneously. One bloodline may be high in marbling but does not check the boxes you need for other traits. That does not mean marbling is the cause—it simply means your search for the ideal genetic pairing is not done.
Date: Sep 19 2024
Big Thinkers & Breeding & Grid Marketing & News Release & Premium PotentialThe commercial Angus rancher from Collyer, Kansas, came back for daily homework in 1999 after a year at college. For 25 years now, he’s studied all the ways to grow his family’s W6 Cattle cow-calf herd with Angus at the base. Guided by data, Walt worked to improve the herd from zero Primes to averaging 60 percent. Learning what drives premiums prompted improvement.
