Category: Research

Stocker strategies affect value

Date: Sep 17 2012

Corral the quality thieves

Date: Jul 05 2012

Here’s a quick feedlot riddle: They’re tiny, relatively easy to control and can affect cattle health, performance and carcass quality in a serious way. What are they?

Hard to define, easy to taste

Date: Jun 15 2012

Eating satisfaction rules when it comes to making beef lovers happy. That was clear in early results from the 2011 National Beef Quality Audit (NBQA), but defining that satisfaction seemed harder to pinpoint.

Older vs. better cows

Date: Jun 08 2012

More longevity and fertility in the cowherd seem like a “no brainer.” But when those pursuits come at the expense of uniformity or other functionality, it could pay to do some hard studying.

What we don’t know

Date: May 21 2012

Myth: We’ve studied marbling for so long, there’s no point in researchers going over it again.

Looks can tell in beef cattle

Date: May 10 2012

“Boy, if he isn’t a spitting image of his grandpa!”
You’ve likely heard similar references before and they make this concept easy to grasp: Just like people, cattle don’t inherit genes equally.

DNA: an arriving tool for beef cattle

Date: May 02 2012

Right now, it’s hard to imagine how future tools will change the beef cowherd. Today, heifer development costs are high and getting higher as ranch profit goals demand efficiency while consumers want quality. DNA technology is one of the emerging solutions for beef production, in line with the role it has played in agronomy.

Beef consumers and flavor

Date: Apr 20 2012

When it comes to food, the alternatives are endless: spicy or bland; Mexican, Italian, Asian or Southern-style comfort dishes. But when it comes to beef, almost everyone agrees on a few features.

ATI and CAB team up to educate

Date: Mar 08 2012

Even the best speakers can’t make an audience feel what it’s like on a farm. There are no words that can replace the actual experience of seeing cattle first hand—watching them roam the pasture or eat out of the feedbunk.

Social society

Date: Dec 15 2011

People are tweeting, posting, uploading, checking in, and sharing information 24 hours a day. In fact, by reading this post you are among the two-thirds of online adults using social media in 2011.