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The 2024 winners of the Frank Baker/Larry Cundiff Beef Improvement Essay Contest for graduate students were announced at the BIF Symposium in Tennessee.

Feeding out (or grazing longer) cattle for slaughter and selling beef to the end consumer adds complexities to your cow-calf or stocker operation.

The species of flies is a major factor in the timing and type of pest control that will be most effective.

Communication between one generation to another can seem like talking a different language. “I suggest you approach looking at another generation with curiosity rather than judgment,” says Kim Lear of Inlay Insights.

Shared employment, housing and movement of employees between facilities are possible factors. Such insights could potentially be leveraged to address biosecurity needs in the state and others as well, the agency says.

Consumer research funded by the Beef Checkoff helps provide data that enables communications with specific messages encouraging the purchase of beef.

The U.S. lamb market functioned properly until the early 1990s as domestic production was clearly responsive to changes in domestic demand, argues the R-CALF CEO.