BEEF
Safety protocols in place during processing and tips for ground meat safety in the home.
About 50% of the red meat we eat is in the form of hamburger.
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.
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.
Cost control is the key to long-term success in the cow-calf business.
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 Beef Industry Long Range Plan includes strategies for a stronger industry.
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.
While he was a sensation on social media, the new Hamburglar didn’t succeed at his main job: promoting McDonald’s sirloin burgers.
The nation’s beef cow herd has started down the path of the largest expansion in 25 years.
National, random independent survey finds smallest opposition ever.
What do you think of when you hear the phrase ‘intensive grazing’?
Pounds, efficiency and quality are important components of the beef business.
Beef from Ireland is making it’s way across the Atlantic to the U.S. for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Cattle rustling is not an Old West crime. It’s very much alive today.
U.S. beef hasn’t been traded to the European Union for more than two decades and the quality of beef isn’t quite up to snuff.
Award applications for the 10th annual checkoff-funded National Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Award now are being accepted.
2015 Summer Campaign Launch Promises Big Results for Beef
Many food labels bombard shoppers with various animal welfare claims as well as non-GMO or pasture raised references.
Drenching rains that recently soaked the Great Plains have brought welcomed moisture to areas still recovering from droughts, greening pastures as ranchers begin the annual rite of moving cattle to the nation’s summer grazing lands.
The combination of substantial $/cwt changes in cattle market prices since the start of this year coupled with the sheer amount of money at stake in each managerial and marketing decision continues to magnify producer interest in current information regarding supply and demand fundamentals.
After experiencing the market trend upward seemingly every week of 2014, cattle producers should be prepared for a little more normal market pattern in 2015.
Consumers should understand marketing claims on meat products to make informed purchasing decisions.
Grain prices helped row crop farmers improve their operations for a few years, now cattle prices are doing the same for beef producers.
Beef fueled runners yesterday during the 2015 Boston Marathon.
Some people are changing their attitudes about the meat industry after taking the popular online course, “The Meat We Eat.”
Beef is far cheaper than most meat in India, often just half the price of chicken, making it a key food for people struggling with poverty.