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Zybach Angus Receives Certified Angus Beef Progressive Partner Award

Steve Zybach’s vision for smaller Angus producers to get more value for their calves through feeder calf sales with value-added programs led him to be recognized as the 2025 CAB Progressive Partner.

Cross Cattle Company earns Certified Angus Beef Canadian Commitment to Excellence award

Using disciplined breeding, genetics and hands-on management to raise Angus cattle that consistently hit high standards, Cross Cattle Company’s focus on quality earned them the 2025 Canadian Commitment to Excellence award.

Willis Ranch Earns Commercial Commitment to Excellence Award

Willis Ranch combines traditional stockmanship with modern genetic tools to produce cattle that thrive and meet high-quality carcass targets. Earning them the 2025 Commercial Commitment to Excellence award.

Success, Despite Challenges

Today’s market is complex and competitive. The collective effort of stakeholders across the supply chain positions Certified Angus Beef to meet the record demand for premium beef moving forward. Signals across the beef industry are clear and Angus farmers and ranchers seeking high-quality genetics that deliver premium beef are producing a product in high demand.

Maplecrest Farms Receives Certified Angus Beef Ambassador Award

Maplecrest Farms bridges every step of the beef supply chain, from raising Angus seedstock to managing a retail meat store and hosting food industry partners. Their ability to connect ranching, genetics and consumer engagement earned them the 2025 CAB Ambassador Award.

Means Ranch Company Earns Certified Angus Beef Sustainability Award

Four generations of the Means family built a legacy through sustainable grazing, water conservation and careful selection of Angus genetics for their south Texas environment. Their stewardship earned the 2025 CAB Sustainability Award.

Latest Headlines

Missing the Mark Leaves Money on the Table

Certified Angus Beef regularly collects data on millions of fed cattle to discover how cattlemen can capture more value for high-quality carcasses beginning on the ranch. When black-hided cattle don’t earn the CAB stamp, it’s most often for missing the mark in marbling, HCW, REA and backfat.

CAB Premiums Reach Record $182 Million

Annual grid, formula and contract premiums paid on CAB carcasses in 2021 totaled $182 million, up from the 2019 record of $92 million. Cattlemen who raise black Angus-influenced cattle that meet the brand’s specifications have the chance to earn more than ever before.

Producers Can Influence Sustainability

Sustainability is a new target for producers. While there are no plans to meet these goals yet, there is interest in how cattle can be part of the solution. It comes down to the adage, “trust but verify,” and verification will need to come from those raising beef.

CAB Insider

Shifting Markets and Quality as the Hedge

When customers come to expect a repeatable eating experience where product quality, satisfaction and safety are built in, demand will only increase. USDA Choice and Prime carcasses constitute 84% of U.S. fed cattle production, pulling beef demand sharply higher today than in the late 1990s when USDA Select was roughly half of our supply and beef demand was at a modern day low.

Tight Cattle Supplies and Increasing Carcass Weights

The current cattle markets can provide a history lesson for those new to the scene. To give a quick recap of that era: record-high prices, fueled by a supply chain starved for cattle numbers, came to an abrupt end. This signaled the end of tight cattle supplies, caused by drought liquidation, and beef cattle producers were able to restock the nation’s cow herd.

CAB Refines Hot Carcass Weight Specification

The brand’s commitment to aggregating winning outcomes is reliant on the relevance of the brand’s carcass specifications to each sector of the beef industry, and ultimately the consumer. This commitment to evolve as the overall industry progresses has resulted in the brand’s recent adjustment of the hot carcass weight maximum to 1,100 lb.

Success Stories

Call the cattle ‘Hoover’

Call the cattle ‘Hoover’

We were sitting in her parked truck, next to the old house where her grandfather was raised, cattle to our left and behind us. “Just call the cattle ‘Hoover’,” Landi Livingston said matter-of-factly.

Better beef on the horizon

Better beef on the horizon

The sun was just peeking over the hills surrounding Hardyville, Ky., when I drove right past Jay McCoy’s ranch. My GPS told me I had arrived, but I knew there was no way his was the place surrounded by Holstein cattle.

Ovine to bovine

Ovine to bovine

I met Fred Roberts this summer outside a diner in western Wyoming. He ordered his coffee and I asked him questions about Angus cattle. Fred’s a sheep guy, too.

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