The “maternal” discussion is far more complex than a healthy live birth and seedstock producers are using more data and knowledge to create better dams each year.
For their influence on the beef business, shifting toward quality and value-based marketing, U.S. Premium Beef earned Certified Angus Beef’s (CAB’s) 2021 Progressive Partner Award.
People of the Dust Bowl slowly learned of the need for planned land use by locality. What happens when you turn over millions of acres of native sod without records and persistent crop failures leave the land bare?
"No man's land." Select seems to find itself there more these days. This article from Certified Angus Beef shares some examples of declining demand for the lower quality grade, and what that communicates to cattlemen.
Partnerships aren’t always about a 50/50 business arrangement or who gets what tasks, sometimes they’re simply about having a vested interest in somebody else’s success.
A new five-part, mini-documentary series by Certified Angus Beef launches Sunday. It will take viewers from the banks of the San Marcos River to the plains of the Kansas Flint Hills and more.
One of the cow’s greatest assets is her ability to work in varied environments. Matching cows with available resources takes focus and action by ranchers.
Maybe you’ve got the best set of calves you’ve ever weaned in front of you, but you’re trying to market them with extra information. It’s a new process that feels more cumbersome than your usual methods.
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering if you’re falling behind, Miranda Reiman has some encouragement in this month's Black Ink, a monthly column provided by the Certified Angus Beef program.
For building beneficial relationships and their drive to produce the best, M&M Feeders earned the 2020 Feedyard Commitment to Excellence Award from the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand.
For building beneficial relationships and their drive to produce the best, M&M Feeders earned the 2020 Feedyard Commitment to Excellence Award from the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand.
You have the power to plan and choose wisely. You have readily available information and more tools than your ancestors dreamed about. You have the ability to control what you can, and you can control more than ever.
If Dan Basse, analyst and president of AgResource Company, was looking for agricultural demand drivers at the beginning of the year, that interest has intensified as 2020 wears on.
There’s a lot of good in the hard work that nobody sees. Sure, that’s true in many professions and roles in life, but it’s a defining characteristic in that big swath of hours cattlemen and women put in each day.
Come blizzard or wildfire, personal tragedy or community crisis, cattlemen do what they do best: they take care of their people and their stock, and face head-on the next thing as it comes.
Antimicrobial resistance might sound like a challenge straight out the headlines, but it could become awfully personal when you find routine antibiotics no longer cure a sick calf.
We need to watch, to make sure the data is correct, to make sure the technology is working and to employ intuition and empathy that Siri-like artificial intelligence doesn’t feel.
Packers need cattlemen, cattlemen need packers. Cargill Protein VP Glen Dolezal discusses what consumers are demanding and how they’re working with their rancher suppliers.
You can’t look at a pen of feedyard cattle and know which ones have liver abscesses. Even technologies like ultrasound or blood tests don’t uncover it, but it costs the industry $60 million annually.
The cattle of tomorrow are being bred with more and more precision, and the rate of improvement can increase. They’ll fit the places they live and the places they’re headed more and more predictably.
Showing a little of the humanity in ranch life—what may sound simple was a significant role for cattlemen at the 2019 Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand’s annual conference in Asheville, N.C., in September.
Using implants correctly says Robbi Pritchard, longtime South Dakota State University ruminant nutritionist, “you can have all of the performance and all of the final product value you want.”
CAB growth credited to “an entire community of Angus farmers, ranchers and feeders being extremely intentional over several years in the way they breed, raise and care for their cattle with a focus on quality.”
The cattle industry needs to make some bold, creative changes to ensure its viability, according to speakers at the Feeding Quality Forum held in Amarillo, Texas.
For his leadership to the beef industry and dedication to raising quality cattle, Jerry Bohn will receive the 2019 Feeding Quality Forum (FQF) Industry Achievement Award later this month.
