Branding day is often an anticipated neighborhood event for beef producers. As pastures green and turnout approaches, many producers enlist the help of neighbors and friends for branding day.
The beef checkoff launched a totally redesigned MyBeefCheckoff.com on Sept. 28, providing checkoff payers, leaders, staff and media with an easy-to-navigate selection of checkoff resources and information to highlight checkoff programs and results.
Thanks to a national checkoff partnership with the New York Beef Industry Council, as part of its Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative, the checkoff exhibited at the Pri-Med East Conference in Boston, Mass., Sept. 12- 14.
Delivering a quality beef product to the consumer requires more than just superior genetics – trustworthy handling practices are the link that assures consumer satisfaction.
Hereford breeders were challenged to embrace technology, focus on the customer, and concentrate on feed efficiency and end-product merit during the Hereford Genetic Summit Sept. 4-5.
The Cattlemen’s Beef Board will invest about $39 million into programs of beef promotion, research, consumer information, industry information, foreign marketing and producer communications in fiscal year 2015.
Call it a facelift, a refresh or a redesign. Whatever its name, the checkoff-funded BeefResearch.org has a new look and improved functionality, including housing the Beef Issues Quarterly e-newsletter.
Thanks to a national checkoff partnership with the Pennsylvania Beef Council, beef was on the table Tuesday, Aug. 26, for more than 20 wellness program participants in Ambler, Pa.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Public Lands Council applaud the efforts of Rep. Southerland (R-Fla.) to block what is described as the largest federal land grab to date.
IBBA launched the Brangus Built commercial program designed to help producers identify and garner the added value associated with the Brangus influence of their commercial replacements.
With more than 225 producers in attendance, the event was fun and informative for all who participated and demonstrated a growing interest in expansion opportunities.
After multiple requests, the EPA finally handed over the maps to the committee, which appear to detail the extent of the "Waters of the United States" proposal.
Due to uncertainties in the Russian market, the beef genetics trade mission hosted by the South Dakota Department of Agriculture (SDDA) and South Dakota Beef Breeds Council planned for October has been cancelled.
The International Brangus Breeders Association has selected GeneSeek, a division of Neogen Corporation, as the association’s new genomics profiling provider.
While sales of U.S. beef in South Korea have been on the upswing this year, USMEF has identified a niche in that country’s economy – small and mid-size supermarkets.
The USDA-AMS is seeking public input on possible revisions to the U.S. Standards for Grades of Carcass Beef to adjust for recent improvements and trends in animal raising and feeding.
The cattle industry is transitioning from the liquidation phase to the expansion phase in terms of cattle numbers, according to Kevin Good, senior market analyst for CattleFax.