Beef - General
For the second year in a row, the beef checkoff’s Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative (NEBPI) is proud to fuel runners at the 40th running of the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) in Washington, DC, on Oct. 25, 2015.
About 50% of the red meat we eat is in the form of hamburger.
Health-conscious consumers might be persuaded to eat more beef if it was fortified with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids naturally found in salmon and walnuts, according to researchers and some ranchers who are feeding cattle flaxseed — even marine algae — with an eye to offering another wholesome dinner choice.
The first year of the Texas Beef Checkoff proves to be successful bringing in $7.2 million for research and promotion of beef.
Registration and housing for the 2016 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Trade Show has opened.
To better explain the procedures and technologies involved in quality and yield grading, the beef checkoff’s research team has developed a guided simulation and learning module.
Retailers are not heavily promoting beef at this time and will likely put more of their efforts into turkey and ham the next several weeks.
As tobacco demand continues to fall, beef production has become more important to the Bluegrass State.
The national beef checkoff, through its Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative (NEBPI) and in partnership with the New York Beef Industry Council (NYBIC), explained the health benefits of lean beef in the diet to the Pri-Med East Conference attendees in Boston, Mass., Sept. 18- 21.
What’s going to happen to beef demand as the cattle industry continues to expand the breeding herd?
Army veteran shares Wagyu beef cattle business success story at Texas A&M Beef Short Course.
Costs are going up, production is stagnant and prices are falling.
New research from K-State suggests consumers may prefer beef enhanced by important omega-3 fatty acids.
HeartBrand Beef Inc. praised Judge Gregg Costa’s order confirming a jury award of $1.825 million in punitive damages against Bill Koch’s Colorado-based Bear Ranch, finding it fraudulently obtained hundreds of full-blood Akaushi cattle once held by the family-owned Texas company.
Cost control is the key to long-term success in the cow-calf business.
For JBS, the Venezuelan market now has special significance. It has a $2.1 billion contract and provides almost half the meat and a quarter of the chicken eaten by 28 million carnivorous Venezuelans.
Demand will be increasingly important as greater supply hits supermarket meat counters.
Cash cattle prices took a drubbing this week with fed cattle prices $4 to $5 lower at $144 to $145 per cwt. Dressed sales were reported $4 to $6 lower at $228 per cwt.
The up and down stock market looks to impact beef demand.
The Beef Industry Long Range Plan includes strategies for a stronger industry.
A Consumer Reports study released yesterday includes misleading information that could increase consumer confusion about food safety heading into the Labor Day weekend, say beef safety experts.
Millennial Listening Panel helps beef checkoff define opportunities.
Cattle prices are very good, but for how long? The more people jump into production, the greater the likelihood of prices falling.
A couple of top SEC football teams got a boost to their protein intake this preseason thanks to their local cattlemen’s association feeding them beef.
Prices are expected to moderate on calves this fall which means a lower upfront investment when purchasing calves this year relative to one year ago.
Smuggler packaged meat as fish, nets $300 penalty.
This month’s cattle on feed report noted 2.6% more cattle in 1,000 head capacity feedlots than last August 1.
Officials are working to help Denison, Iowa cope with the closing of a Tyson Foods plant there that employed about 400 people.