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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
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.
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
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
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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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.
The checkoff-funded “Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner.” website is launching a new landing page focused on slow-cooker methods for preparing beef. One look at Pinterest, and it’s clear that the
Over the decades, cattle farmers learned to work around toxins in fescue grass in their pastures. “We called it ‘managing fescue,’” says Craig Roberts, extension forage specialist. “It shou
The European Commission announced more help for the agriculture sector on Monday, following protests by farmers who say they have been hit hard by a Russian ban on Western food imports.
Voters in a rural southeastern Oregon county have registered their opposition to proposals to expand federal protective status within 2.5 million acres of scenic canyonlands near the wildlife refuge recently occupied by
Chances are you’re not thinking about forage testing in January but maybe you should be.
Today, Tyson Foods, Inc., in conjunction with the Animal Agriculture Alliance’s College Aggies Online (CAO) scholarship competition and the Montana State University Collegiate CattleWomen, donated a truckload of c
As the ill-advised occupation of a wildlife refuge headquarters by a bunch of so-called freedom lovers drags on into yet another week, it’s time to put an end to this running travesty.