Category: Premium Potential

Don’t blame the calves

Date: Aug 16 2017

Percent marbling in harvested fed cattle tends to decrease from late February to early May.

Black ink in the Black Hills

Date: Jul 20 2017

The Snyder family’s Piedmont, S.D., ranch hugs I-90 to the east and the Black Hills National Forest to the west.

Prime: Profitable and possible

Date: Jun 12 2017

News release: Building premiums, cut by cut

Date: Feb 24 2017

In 2016, U.S. packers saw Choice beef production increase by 8.1% while that of the Select grade held steady.

The matching game

Date: Sep 30 2016

Cattle have changed. If your management hasn’t, animal scientist Robbi Pritchard suggests you take a look to be sure it’s still relevant. The South Dakota State University emeritus professor addressed cattle feeders and allied industry at the Feeding Quality Forum in August.

Beef shoppers: quality, service above price

Date: May 20 2016

Price is important in nearly every buying decision. However, when it comes to groceries, a new study shows consumers place more value on quality and service than price alone. The doctoral research by Ken Wicker through Capella University’s School of Business is titled, “A study of customer value and loyalty in the supermarket industry.”

$1 million a week

Date: May 14 2016

Rewards for hitting the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand target have never been greater, even after 11 consecutive years of growing supply. A survey of CAB-licensed packers Cargill, JBS-USA, National and Tyson showed they paid a record $51.8 million in grid premiums in 2015, and more than $550 million over 20 years.

Following the Calves: Florida cattle head to harvest

Date: Mar 18 2016

The question lingered. “Do we send them on to relatively low-cost feed or rest them on what’s usually less-expensive grass?”

Every number has a story: -2.26

Date: Nov 11 2015

You might say it’s an even number, divisible by 2. But what relevance can we find in -2.26, a negative carried out to two decimal places?

Nice to Meat Ya: Jonnie Schreffler

Date: Nov 16 2014

Jonnie Schreffler might admit to being a “good old boy,” but it’s mostly good. Jon to those who aren’t yet friends, worked his way up from “Green Thumb” part-time help after high school in 1978, to farm manager at Thompson since 2010.