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Certified Angus Beef Sales Resilient Amid Down Supply

Despite tightening supply and volatile market conditions, CAB celebrates 48 years with more than 1.224 billion pounds sold and record-setting Certified Angus Beef ® Prime sales.

Texas Ranch Received CAB Ambassador Award

Visitors to 2 Bar C Ranch near Luling, Texas, often describe the quiet first. That peace reflects low-stress cattle care, seedstock bred for the whole beef chain and a family that opens its gates, earning the 2026 CAB Ambassador Award.

Built For the Long Haul

Thirty-one inches of rain in 48 hours tested Biltmore Estate’s 130-year commitment to remain a profitable, working agricultural estate. Through Hurricane Helene recovery and high-quality Angus genetics, Biltmore stewards its land, livestock and community, earning the 2026 CAB Sustainability Award.

Jett Stream to Prime

In the Oklahoma Panhandle, four generations built a herd defined not by the odds against it, but by standards never lowered. That commitment drove decades of genetic and management improvements, taking Jett Ranch from struggling to reach Prime to more than 70% Prime today, and earned the ranch the 2026 CAB Commercial Commitment to Excellence award.

Nebraska Feedyard Recognized for Excellence

Motivation starts the feed truck before sunrise, keeps going through adversity and drives pursuit of the next goal. It has more than fueled daily routines for Terry Beller. It’s helped his family and crew build the multigenerational Beller Feedlot into one long-known for customer service and high-quality beef.

The Capstone Approach to Modern Cattle Feeding

Taking aim without a target is like fishing without bait. It just doesn’t work. The cattle market lures with premiums for targets hit, but the bar keeps rising. Getting better in this dynamic setting takes detailed feedback. Capstone Beef provides that to its commercial customers with report cards that track progress and reveal needed change.

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Meeting Demand with Better Beef in 2021

More than forty years after selling the first pound of branded beef on October 18, 1978, Certified Angus Beef continues to deliver for consumers and producers. The brand closed fiscal year 2021 with a few new records and another billion on the books.

How to Face Evolving Demands

In the rapid changing space of sustainability, finding clarity on what to do is challenging. At the 2021 Feeding Quality Forum, Dr. Kim Stackhouse-Lawson offered insights on what can be expected of producers moving forward.

Focus Under the Hide

From the bulls they buy, the cows they cull and the grass their cattle graze, each decision is evaluated based on how it affects the ranch’s economics, the land and family. This management style earned the Niznik family the Certified Angus Beef 2021 Canadian Commitment to Excellence award.

Certified Angus Beef Offers Summer Internships

CAB is accepting applications for three communications internship positions for Summer 2022. Effective communication is the foundation for success in any career, and CAB interns get real-world experiences with audiences across the beef supply chain.

Change is a good thing

From the moment his boots hit the dirt on the way to the barn, to switching off the lights and locking the door of the Hickory House Restaurant, Jonathan Perry is committed to the beef business. The 2021 CAB Chairman brings a unique perspective to the table. By day, he’s a cattleman. By night, he’s a meat cutter.

CAB Insider

Record Weights Support Fed Cattle Decline

Escalating fed cattle weights simply cannot be overlooked in the beef supply equation. Finished cattle weights, harvest throughput and feedlot currentness don’t have the same relationship today as they did just a few years ago.

Demand for Premium Quality Beef High, Supply Showing Improvement

Fourth quarter demand for premium quality grade beef carcasses is predictably high. End users—grocery stores in particular—place orders several weeks ahead of the December timeline to fulfill holiday middle-meat needs. Prime grade carcass supplies have disappointed throughout the year with 11.2% fewer total pounds of Prime carcasses acquired so far.

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.

Behind the Brand

Wyoming K-Stater joins CAB team for summer

Wyoming K-Stater joins CAB team for summer

Hannah Johlman joined the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) Industry Information team in May 2016 as a summer intern, writing features, news releases, columns and blogs on all who aim for the brand, from rancher to consumer. She began the summer term with a story tour of ranches and feedlots in Kansas and Colorado.

Stories and love are everywhere

In honor of Valentine’s Day, we thought it’d be fun to talk to a few of the folks who really are married to CAB — or at least to a fellow CAB employee — and see how they choose to celebrate.

Our fifth blogiversary

Our fifth blogiversary

This time five years ago, former Black Ink teammate Laura Nelson was finalizing plans to launch the supply development department’s blog — the one you’re reading now.

Success Stories

Following the calves: Proud to pass it on

Following the calves: Proud to pass it on

“I don’t want to be the generation that screws it up.”

South Dakota rancher Troy Hadrick told me that as we discussed all the changes he’s seen in four years at the helm of his family’s commercial Angus herd.

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