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Sysco and Certified Angus Beef Announce Partnership to Enhance Animal Welfare and Beef Sustainability
The Cattle Care Partnership between Sysco and CAB highlights the shared commitment of both companies to support farmers and ranchers and the beef community as a whole. By investing in BQA training, the partnership elevates the industry’s work to address consumer concerns, reinforce trust, and ensure future demand for beef.
Students Expand Skills Through Summer Internships with Certified Angus Beef
A strong skillset, positive attitude and leap of faith led four students to a summer of learning with Certified Angus Beef as communications interns. Working on an array of projects, the four build their skills while preparing for careers in the beef and related industries.
Register Now for Feeding Quality Forum
Consumer demand signals spur progress in the cattle business, but producers must be proactive when making changes in their marketing strategy. The Feeding Quality Forum event delivers solutions to market-focused cattlemen who want to get rewarded for raising premium beef.
Certified Angus Beef Expands Offering with Grass-Fed Beef
Certified Angus Beef ® Grass-Fed by Niman Ranch product will make up less than 1% of it’s total supply. A niche product, it will initially only be available through a few, exclusive restaurants and grocery stores. Consistent with all CAB products, the grass-fed beef must meet all 10 specifications to qualify for the brand.
Premium Beef, Premium Production
The Certified Angus Beef ® brand is often advertised as “the best,” and taste secured its growth around the globe. As a younger generation of consumers has more buying power in the market, their expectations of high-quality beef are expanding. Here’s how the brand is meeting this new wave of demand.
In Tough Times: Minimize Waste, Maximize Genetics through Management
With drought and high input costs in the balance, it takes sharp management decisions to keep black ink on the bottom line. Knowing what to cut back or keep doing was the focus for Dusty Abney, beef cattle nutritionist for Cargill Animal Nutrition, during his Cattlemen’s College session at the 2023 Cattle Industry Convention.
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Competition Increases for Shrinking Pool of Cull Cows
Total carcass cutout prices have tended to increase during August in most recent years, but round cuts are holding the stronger price spike this season longer into September due to the substitution effect noted in this update.
Short Supplies, Higher Beef Prices
In the waning days ahead of Labor Day spot market beef prices are posting positive numbers, boosting a bit of optimism into the total beef complex. Historically, the uptrend will subside following the holiday, and wholesale prices will seek an early fall low mid-October.
Behind the Brand
Breeding for the brand
With goals of increasing CAB acceptance rate, the brand has updated Targeting the Brand™ requirements to help commercial producers improve beef quality through bull selection.
Certified Angus Beef ® launches new consumer loyalty program
The CAB brand has launched the Steakholder Rewards™, a consumer loyalty program where members earn points for their involvement with CAB. Research shows loyalty programs drive demand for the brand’s beef.
Old-fashioned excellence
Long time CAB licensed packer Bob Boliantz is continuing the trade that has been passed down for generations. Looking for premium carcass quality, Boliantz connects with local producers to educate on management practices to increase marbling.
Success Stories
Resilience
Hardships are nothing new for producers in the cattle industry. Although markets have been impacted by COVID-19, cattlemen hold strong to past challenges and lessons learned from those times.
A pen of Primes
Their success with quality Angus cattle disguises the fact that the Boyer brothers are first-generation farmers. Originally from Detriot, the brothers moved to a farm in Missouri 46 years ago with no prior knowledge of raising cattle. Today, their best pen of finished steers marked 100% Certified Angus Beef with all but one Prime.
Welcome to the table
If the Olson’s could sit everyone at the same table, when guests come to tour the Olson Land & Cattle ranch near Hereford, Texas, they absolutely would. For close to 30 years now the family has hosted ranch tours, earning them the Certified Angus Beef ® Ambassador Award.
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