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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.
Senses and sense
Humans developed over millennia to hunt and herd. When it’s time to move animals, instincts send us out with a purpose but sometimes little thought to how our aggressive behavior affects what they do. Stepping into a cattle pen, we naturally act the predator, manipulating where animals go. But good handling practices should turn us into leaders, says Kip Lukasiewicz.
Fine-tuned engines
Mineral nutrition plays an important role in every function of cattle – from health, to reproductive performance, to day-to-day activities. However, mineral deficiencies are hard to detect base on physical traits. Supplementation programs can help ensure your cattle are getting the minerals needed to perform their best.
Registration opens for Feeding Quality Forum webinar
The 15th annual Feeding Quality Forum will be a free, two-day, virtual event delivering tangible tools and ideas for commercial cattlemen and feeders. This year’s agenda has a strong focus on the markets—an ever changing topic this year.
Cultivated curiosity
The Feeding Quality Forum has recognized noted cattle feeding research scientist John Matsushima as the 2020 Industry Achievement Award winner for his long career of dedicated service.
Best of both worlds
Brian Bertelsen, U.S. Premium Beef (USPB) vice president, spoke at the Beef Improvement Federation’s recent online symposium, covering everything from hot carcass weight to quality grade targets. This article shares the data that shows what’s really possible.
CAB Insider
Cattle, grain and carcass price signals mixed
The beef industry finds itself in another odd position as market values are adjusting swiftly. Feed grains continue to react to global supply-and-demand dynamics with a bias toward even higher corn and soybean futures prices.
Looking ahead to marketing spring calves
The shift away from larger availability of yearlings to the new crop of spring 2020 calf-fed cattle is beginning. This is the early stage of this seasonal trend, with more to come as April progresses.
Behind the Brand
A day in the life of a beef cattle specialist
I spend a great deal of my time communicating our message to the commercial cow-calf producer: that they need to buy Angus bulls.
Not forced to love it
Myth—The CAB supply development team just spews Angus propaganda, regardless of the facts.
What not to ring Marilyn about
What not to ring Marilyn about Marilyn likes to stay under-the-radar, out of the limelight, but behind the scenes….she makes a lot of things happen. Right now the Feeding Quality Forum registration is in full-swing and if you’ve got questions, Marilyn’s your gal. If...
Success Stories
Incorporating a legacy of quality
Meet Paul and Nancy Miller, 4th generation ranchers whose family has been working the same land in the Flint Hills of Kansas since 1878.
In harsh country, quality pays
When consumers question the sustainability of today’s beef cattle operations, they clearly haven’t met James Cloud.
Building fences, cowherd, beef demand
Last year after a late, wet spring in northeastern Iowa, Lyle decided it was time to switch up his typical corn-soybean rotation and seeded down some “nice creek bottoms” to forage beans.
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