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The 15th Annual Certified Angus Beef Feeding Quality Forum will be held virtually this year on Aug. 25 and 26, offering key marketing insights and unique perspectives on the beef supply chain’s future.

Preliminary GDP data suggest the U.S. experienced an unprecedented economic decline during the second quarter of 2020, leading to uncertainty about consumer beef demand for the remainder of the year.

USDA’s release o Friday of Cattle on Feed and Cattle Inventory report data suggests backlog is decreasing in feedyards and beef cow numbers are tightening across cattle country.

The U.S. beef industry is a forage-based industry and that one distinction from the pork and poultry industries will hinder any future vertical integration, says John Nalivka.

Cattlemen may someday use technology such as drones to digitize pasture management addressing variable pasture conditions and labor needed to develop actionable data-driven grazing management plans.

For the first time in its 38-year history the Iowa Governor’s Charity Steer Show (GCSS) will not be held at the Iowa State Fair. Due to the cancellation of this year’s fair Iowa State University will host the event.

Early pregnancy testing provides a number of benefits, and can be conducted as early as 30 to 45 days after the end of the breeding season through ultrasound, rectal palpation or blood-based pregnancy tests.

Cargill and TGI Fridays have teamed up to build Bold Heroes, a initiative designed to provide firefighters across the nation with TGI Friday’s frozen beef patties.

TSCRA director Carl Ray Polk Jr. says his group will “always embrace progress, but not when it comes at the expense of our members or when it violates our private property rights.”

Plant-based products are no longer on the menu at McDoanld’s in Canada, but the end of the test has not diminished the enthusiasm of leaders of the fake meat business.