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Benoit Angus Ranch honored with CAB Seedstock Commitment to Excellence Award
What started with six Angus heifers, has now grown into 400 Angus females, along with a 2,500 acre farming division. The multi-generation family business focus on improving the reputation on the ranch with high-quality cattle. From the ground up, Benoit Angus Ranch has earned the CAB 2023 Seedstock Commitment to Excellence Award.
Feeding Quality Forum Shares Market Outlook, Path to Meeting Demand
The beef demand success story of the past is also the industry’s roadmap for the future, said speakers at this year’s Feeding Quality Forum. The program covered everything from current market conditions and technology to price forecasts and advancements on the horizon.
Certified Angus Beef Launches Direct-to-Consumer Program
Could your freezer beef carry the CAB logo? Perhaps. With the launch of a new program. Ranch to Table, a direct partnership program between CAB and cattle operations using Angus genetics, allows ranchers to use the brand’s trusted reputation for increased gain.
Steve Hunt Honored with the 2023 Industry Achievement Award
When the cattle industry needed a leader, Steve Hunt stepped up. Sure, it was a group effort to launch U.S. Premium Beef – ranchers, cattle feeders and allied industry – but they all say one man made the difference between success and failure.
The 2023 Colvin Scholarship Fund Awards Future Beef Leaders
Certified Angus Beef awards 23 students a grand total of $81,500 in funds through the Colvin Scholarship Fund this year.
Certified Angus Beef Recognizes Beef Quality Research
First-place honors go to Andres Mendizabal, an international student pursuing a Ph.D. in animal science at Texas Tech University. His research is titled, “The Accuracy of USDA Yield Grade and Beef Carcass Components as Predictors of Red Meat Yield.”
CAB Insider
Carcass Quality Set to Climb Seasonally
With the arrival of the new year the beef market will rapidly adjust to changes in consumer buying habits. This will remove demand pressure from ribs and tenderloins, realigning the contribution of these most valuable beef cuts to a smaller percentage of carcass value
Misaligned Cattle Markets and Record-high Carcass Weights
Few things in cattle market trends are entirely predictable but the fact that carcass weights peak in November is as close to a sure bet as one could identify. Genetic selection for growth and advancing mature size has fueled the long-term increase in carcass weights.
Behind the Brand
Brand specifications evolve
To earn the Certified Angus Beef ® brand, Angus-influenced cattle, with predominantly solid black coats, must pass our must pass our 10 additional carcass specifications. Those measures will get a slight update on 9/9.
Meating the Need
The pandemic has put the foodservice industry in a tough spot, but their grit and generosity overshadow hard times. Foodservice companies across the country are giving back by serving Certified Angus Beef® to their communities.
50-14 Letter
U.S. beef producers are facing difficult challenges thrust upon them through unprecedented events. Through much debate around fed-cattle marketing and price discovery opportunities, the 50-14 bill was born. Here the Certified Angus Beef® brand addresses the industry.
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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