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Beyond Meat is set to release quarterly financial reports likely showing growing sales and increasing losses. As one analyst put it, “it seems the more faux meat they sell the more faux money they make.”
The strong volumes of fed slaughter suggest the large number of long-fed cattle are being worked through. Tightening supplies are being revealed and demand in the beef market is nothing short of incredible.
My daughter reached into the crate and picked up a piglet. As she handed the pig over to her little sister, I felt my eyes leak a little. FFA has been life-changing for our family. Here are a few reasons why.
Help make your calving season as successful as possible by ensuring adequate colostrum, preventing cold stress and having a calving kit at the ready.
How preventing pinkeye in your herd can protect so much more.
The world’s largest cattle feeder, Five Rivers Cattle Feeding recognizes the importance of being a leader and an advocate for the beef industry – Kuner Feedlot wins 2022 BQA Feedyard Award.
If drought is not a limitation in 2022, will cattle producers continue herd liquidation? The answer will be determined by what cattle producers want to do and can do relative to cow culling and heifer retention.
Cattle feeders saw active participation from all packers last week which helped push prices higher for a fourth consecutive week. Prices in the North remain at a premium.
Listen to Paul Kropp, national account manager, discuss the multiple benefits of using Altosid® IGR, the proven feed-through horn fly control.
Cash fed cattle prices traded higher for a fourth-consecutive week, reaching the highest average price since August of 2015.
Brazilian meatpacker Marfrig Global Foods SA aims to appoint its own board members at food processing business BRF SA, it said on Monday, having built a stake of about 33% in the company.
Cattle prices are improving in all regions as cattle numbers have declined. Expansion and continuation of the current drought could cut cattle numbers even further and produce higher cattle prices.
Running a total of 1,100 milk cows, 850 replacement heifers and 800 steers, Langeland Farms Inc. in Coopersville, Michigan, is the winner of the 2022 Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) – FARM Dairy Award.
Committing much of her career to the Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program, Dr. Deb VanOverbeke earns the 2022 BQA Educator Award.
The new Trailblazers program takes advocacy to an unprecedented level by giving participants the tools and training they need to promote beef to new audiences while addressing and correcting myths.
The top 10 export markets all saw gains in 2021, with six of the 10 (China, Mexico, Canada, South Korea, the Philippines and Colombia) setting new records.
Cattle price and profitability trends for producers are pointed in the right direction, even as challenges and uncertainty persist with continued disruptions from the pandemic.
Wildfire activity is forecast to increase along and west of I-35 and into South Texas from Feb. 18-21. Texas A&M Forest Service firefighters have responded to 91 wildfires that burned 7,312 acres since Feb. 14.
This spring, cattle producers have a chance of winning daily prizes with an approximate retail value of $200 when they submit their best calving season photos to the company’s Calving Season Sweepstakes.
For efforts to provide safe transportation to cattle and enhance the public’s perception of animal handling, W & J Carpenter, Arapahoe, Neb., became the first recipient of the Beef Quality Assurance Marketer Award.
Greater Omaha Packing Foundation donated $20,000 to support Together Omaha, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing and assisting with homelessness.
Recipients of the Henry C. Gardiner Scholarships for the 2022-2023 school year at Kansas State University have been announced.
Located in Limon, Colorado, and managed by the Frasier family, River Bend Ranch has been named the 2022 BQA Cow-Calf Award Winners.
Hardware disease can be difficult to conclusively diagnose and clinical signs will vary based on where the hardware has penetrated. The best prevention of hardware disease is good management.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., consumers faced unknown territory in the meat industry that raised questions of resiliency. Since then, consumers have helped drive changes to the pork industry with their dollar.
The slaughter pace last week was the best we’ve seen in 2022, with an estimated Federally Inspected total of 659K. Given the previous week’s disappointing pace due to weather, these are very promising totals.
While livestock’s greenhouse gas emissions are relatively minor in the U. S., methane emissions can be reduced by improving forage quality with the use of cool-season forages and legumes and using rotational grazing.
Randie Culbertson explained IGS technology, challenges with the multi-breed genetic evaluation, and how the technology works for seedstock and commercial producers during the Beef Improvement Federation Symposium.
How untreated pinkeye in cattle can cost an operation in multiple areas
Grassroots Carbon has provided payment to 10 Texas ranchers for their adoption of reversative grazing pastures which have resulted in nature-based, measured, verified and certified carbon credits.