Beef - General
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.
Listen to Paul Kropp, national account manager, discuss the multiple benefits of using Altosid® IGR, the proven feed-through horn fly control.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How untreated pinkeye in cattle can cost an operation in multiple areas
Multiple trade agreements aided in reaching unprecedented levels of red meat exports for 2021. USMEF Economist Erin Borror weighed in on the recent report during the Weekly USMEF Audio Report.
In the third installment of a who-knows-how-many series, Steve Cornett ruminates about the responses he’s gathered from readers who are either for or against Sen. Chuck Grassley’s proposed fix for cattle markets.
Thanks to above average rainfall across much of North Dakota last fall there is potential for cattle producers to see average forage production in 2022.
Calves that have incurred traumatic births are often are lethargic, clumsy and have little interest in nursing. These babies may benefit from a simple procedure called the “Madigan Squeeze Technique.”
Court denies restraining order filed to halt aerial gunning operation of feral cattle. “The overall situation and the waste of protein is saddening,” says NMCGA President-Elect Bronson Corn.
NCBA member and rancher Kim Brackett testified before the U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture on the cattle industry’s leadership in sustainability.
A properly constructed and maintained water well can provide many years of trouble-free service, but over time, wells can deteriorate or become damaged, allowing surface contaminants to enter the water in the well.
Report reveals a shift to technology to support existing farming practices as globally producers look to innovate in the face of changing market pressures.
U.S. beef exports exceeded $10 billion in sales, shattering the previous record by 27%. Pork exports finished slightly below the record volume reached in 2020 but set a new value record, topping $8 billion.
A new strategic alliance will bring together industry and academia to speed up the exchange of ideas and to booster innovative solutions to animal health challenges in the U.S. and around the world.
Steve, a 1,389-pound steer that brought home top honors at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, made history on Saturday when he sold for $310,000. More than $6.1 million was raised in the legendary auction.
Plant-based chicken pluckers are not satisfied with a 1% market share, but they have the difficult task of convincing folks a concoction of pea protein, soy protein, flour, oils and sodium tastes just like chicken.
Elanco Animal Health announces two new resources aimed at helping the cattle industry make a positive impact on hunger and climate change.
Federal Wildlife Service plan aerial gunning of estray cattle located in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico despite local ranchers concerns.
The North American Meat Institute said the Biden Administration’s proposed rules for the Packers and Stockyards Act could limit the abilities of the meat industry to respond to consumer demand regarding sustainability.
Producers may now report unfair or anticompetitive practices in the livestock and poultry industries using a new online tool.
USDA’s cattle inventory report confirmed contraction is taking place in the U.S. As economists weigh in on what the latest numbers may mean, one veteran economist thinks cattle prices could remain strong through Q4.
One of the first lessons Penn State’s Tara Felix tries to teach newbie dairy beef feeders is that cattle raised for beef need grain, not forage.
Breeding a subset of the dairy herd to beef sires is a growing trend in the U.S. dairy business.