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Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Report signals beef demand was greater than expected during ‘Beef Month.’
Emergency grazing will be allowed until Sept. 30, unless conditions improve.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
More food will be needed in the next 50 years than was consumed in the last 7,000 years.
Jacques Parent’s farm - all 2,000 acres - borders Lake Champlain in Vermont and is just a five minute drive to Canada. For New England, that’s a very large agricultural operation.
Consumers want to quickly cook a “real” meal with the same speed, ease and results as convenience foods.
Consumers have started to show an increasing interest in understanding how and where food was raised.
Bill Barthle, 3rd generation rancher in San Antonio, Fla., says the checkoff helps explain to consumers how U.S. beef is produced. He feels increasing that knowledge and the demand for beef will play a crucial role in p
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price saw a drop from $120.82 on June 21 to $116.64 on June 28. The panel of cattle industry experts who make up our Monday Market Sentiment predicted $124.68 per hundredweight. Thi
A trio of lawmakers label the meat and poultry industry’s accident rates as an ‘outrage.’ That was the same accusation 30 years ago ‚Äî and the proposed solutions are also decades old.
Did you have a good Memorial Day weekend celebrating the service heros of our past and present? We sure hope so! We’re taking this week off on the poll, but stay tuned for the next chance to throw in your guess ne
While most agricultural tourists responding to a Purdue University survey indicated that agriculture is an important industry, those who said they had visited a livestock farm tended to have concerns about how animal fe
Why do youth livestock show animals require extra paperwork when marketed to a packer? The April 6th speaker for the Animal Care Wednesday Webinar was Paula Alexander, Project Manager of Tyson’s Sustainable Food P
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price fell this week from $126.55 on April 26 to $123.78 on May 3. The panel of cattle industry experts who make up our Monday Market Sentiment had an average guess of $12
A China-led consortium seeking to buy Australia’s S. Kidman & Co withdrew its A$371 million ($280 million) bid for the country’s largest private land-holding company and is planning to make another, a partner in the pur
Whole Foods Market Inc won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a well-known animal rights group that accused the grocery chain of deceiving consumers into believing the meat it sells is raised more humanely than normal, resul
The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price decreased this week from $133.97 on April 19 to $126.55 on April 26. The panel of cattle industry experts who make up our Monday Market Sentiment had an average guess of
An international arbitration center has ordered Venezuela to pay British cattle company Vestey Group nearly $100 million for the nationalization of cattle ranches, pilling fresh pressure on the cash-strapped leftist gov
The USDA Census of Agriculture says cattle and beef production is the largest single segment of American agriculture, but the average age of the American cattle farmer or rancher is in the late 50s.
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The 5-Area Accumulated Average Cattle Price slightly increased this week from $133.91 on April 12 to $133.97 on April 19.
A Las Vegas judge on Friday entered not guilty pleas for the last five defendants to be arraigned over a high-profile standoff about cattle grazing rights between armed protesters and federal agents at the Nevada ranch
Checkoff-funded consumer market research shows us that the key generation for beef marketing - millennials - practically live on their computer devices. They tell us that they get virtually all of their info
New research shows that high-quality protein helps increase physical function during weight loss in older obese adults.
‚...the checkoff’s extensive market research shows us that older Millennials - especially those with young families - make up our target audience for consumer marketing?
Delivering beef messages on email, blogs and social networks allows the checkoff to be extremely selective about who receives our messages because we use “geo-targeting” that allows us to specifically focus
Europe and South America will try to revive stalled trade talks in mid-May despite Brazil’s political crisis and reticence from France, the European Union and Argentina said on Thursday.