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Brand Production Beyond Borders

Domestic or international, the objective has remained clear over the years: to access additional CAB® carcasses to support growing domestic and international demand, without compromising product quality and consistency, brand integrity, and value to Association members.

Not From Your Pocket

When Angus ranchers ask how CAB is funded, the answer isn’t dollars out of their pocket. No portion of American Angus Association® membership dues or fees for cattle registrations or transfers goes toward the brand’s budget. As a not-for-profit company, our revenue is generated through packer commissions.

Certified Angus Beef Bringing Unique Rancher Event to Kansas

Backed by the latest science and industry expertise, BQA provides practical guidance to help protect cattle well-being, beef quality and producer investment. More than a certification, it serves as a commitment to continuous improvement for farmers and ranchers working to raise high-quality beef the right way. 

Certified Angus Beef Launches New Podcast

The CAB Bite podcast answers burning questions about the brand. In 20 minutes or less, listeners will get an extra “bite” of news, insights and practical takeaways. The short-form podcast aims to give the beef community an up-close, behind-the-scenes look at CAB and its supply chain.

Protecting Brand Integrity

Protecting the brand’s integrity has been a core pillar since 1978. Integrity is so foundational that the brand was built around the premise: with integrity, nothing else matters, and without it, nothing else matters.

Sysco Highlights the Value of Beef Quality Assurance

The commitment to cattle care and continuous improvement is also reflected in the Raised with Respect™ program, a partnership between CAB and Sysco, now in its third year. The initiative helps expand awareness of BQA principles while supporting educational resources for ranchers and additional collaboration across universities, extension systems and industry partners.

Latest Headlines

CAB names first-ever Sustainability Award honoree

One feeds, the other breeds and stocks a steady supply, ready to fill the pens as they empty. Wilson Cattle Company harvests the grass in Baker Valley while Beef Northwest, started by the fifth generation of Wilsons, finishes the cattle. It’s a symbiotic relationship, both dependent on each other.

Langford earns CAB Ambassador Award

Bodey Langford has it easier and harder than the three generations of ranchers before him, but his gentle and steady spirit guides him while telling the cattle story to all he encounters. It’s only an inkling of why he’s the 2020 CAB Ambassador Award recipient.

Dalebanks Angus earns CAB seedstock honors

When the industry was going one way, Matt Perrier saw his parents and grandparents going another. That dedication to quality, to the Perrier family and Dalebank Angus’s goal of “practical, profitable genetics,” was rewarded with the 2020 CAB Seedstock Commitment to Excellence award.

Rebound

Shocks to the beef industry were all part of 2020’s “unprecedented” theme, but how the market responded was less surprising. That’s from RaboResearch analyst Dustin Aherin. When history is in the making, cattlemen should be innovative.

Hindsight for the future

Randy Blach gave hindsight to the industry’s past 40 years to prepare for the next 40 at the 2020 virtual Feeding Quality Forum. While 2020 is a tumultuous year, perspective gives us hope for the future. There’s optimism for the future, but not without challenges.

CAB Insider

Margins Sqeeze, Markets Cool: What It Means for Fed Cattle

Focused marketing of a premium beef brand demands some attention to tracking price spreads across differing quality specifications. The USDA quality grade scale provides the domestic measuring stick by which the trade differentiates demand across the quality spectrum.

Prime premiums double last year

Lately the Prime grade has slipped down to 8.3% of the total, versus 9.5% a year ago. The reduced slaughter pace, combined with this lower Prime share, has prices heated up for the most premium quality grade.

Behind the Brand

Becoming an insider

Becoming an insider

Looking back as an outsider then, and now someone who knows a little bit more, I notice all the things that I wouldn’t have before.

Success Stories

Restarting a legacy

Restarting a legacy

Visiting the J-D Claypool Ranch in southern Oklahoma, near Ringling, I saw such history. The original Dillard Ranch was established in the late 1800s, before Oklahoma was granted statehood.

Nice to Meat Ya: Kenny Montgomery

Nice to Meat Ya: Kenny Montgomery

Kenny Montgomery is a cowboy. The definition fits him well, too. He’s tough, unassuming, he’s resilient – the kind of guy you could ride around with in the pick up, the one you want on your side.

Maternal function at Marrs Ranch

Maternal function at Marrs Ranch

Recipients of CAB’s Commercial Commitment to Excellence award, Dan and Anna Marrs, Whitewood, S.D., were the first to admit their herd of 600 Angus females wasn’t perfect.

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