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Nestlé CEO Thinks Americans Eat Too Much Meat
Nestlé CEO Thinks Americans Eat Too Much Meat

American adults eat about 50 billion hamburgers each year, or roughly three burgers per week. That average is much higher than France, where adults eat about one burger per month.

NCBA Puts Spin on Yule Log Tradition with a ‘Drool Log’

Ahead of the holidays the NCBA has released a new two-hour video in hopes to “spice up any gathering and celebration.” The Beef Drool Log video features a prime rib roast cooking to perfection over an open flame.

Angus VNR: What’s the buzz about beef?
Angus VNR: What’s the buzz about beef?

Ten or 15 years ago, people used vitamin and supplement pills to stay healthy and balance their diet. Today, the focus is much more on food, and meat plays a key role.

When nationwide audits began showing the wide gap between the average mix of beef quality and what the consumer wanted, ranchers began responding.
Angus VNR: Consumers demand, ranchers provide

Big strides have been made since the Beef Quality Audit of 1991 pointed out changes needed to meet consumer demand. At the Feeding Quality Forum, a Certified Angus Beef executive talked about responding to those needs.

USCA; NCBA Release Statements about South Dakota Labeling Legislation
USCA; NCBA Release Statements about South Dakota Labeling Legislation

This week South Dakota Senators John Thune (R-SD) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) introduced a bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to modify requirements that meat is labeled “Product of U.S.A.”

Rising to the Challenge of Ideal
Rising to the Challenge of Ideal

At the recent 2019 Feeding Quality Forum in Amarillo, Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand president John Stika spoke to the changes in “ideal” since 1991. 

Sen. Fischer Raises Questions About Cattle Markets After Tyson Fire
Sen. Fischer Raises Questions About Cattle Markets After Tyson Fire

The Nebraska senator asked specifically about the negative impact on suppliers due to low cattle prices and high packer margins following the Tyson plant fire.

CAB Insider: Premium Beef Wins Again
CAB Insider: Premium Beef Wins Again

The numbers won’t be final until September closes, but the “insider” forecast suggests a 3.9% total increase in sales tonnage for CAB in fiscal 2019.

Double Standards and Faux Meat
Double Standards and Faux Meat

Beef production, and I agriculture in general, has become a pretty contentious issue over the past several years. Most often, the criticism is directed at us while we try to defend ourselves in a graceful manner.

Video: Escaped Longhorn Roped Inside Building In Colorado Springs
Video: Escaped Longhorn Roped Inside Building In Colorado Springs

The annual Ride for the Brand cattle drive through downtown Colorado Springs took an exciting twist.

New South Carolina Law Bans Lab Grown Protein from Advertising as Meat

South Carolina has passed a new law that keeps protein grown in a laboratory from stem cells as advertising as “meat.”

Competition Grows for Alternative Meat
Competition Grows for Alternative Meat

Competition is growing for meat from alternative sources.

Competition is growing for meat from alternative sources.
Competition Grows for Alternative Meat

Competition is growing for meat from alternative sources.

Students Raise Cattle For School Project, Serves In Cafeteria
Students Raise Cattle For School Project, Serves In Cafeteria

There’s an assignment for its students that lasts year-round to spark interest in agriculture. AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben shows us putting its own flair on the farm to fork movement.

Students Raise Cattle For School Project, Serves In Cafeteria
Students Raise Cattle For School Project, Serves In Cafeteria

There’s an assignment for its students that lasts year-round to spark interest in agriculture. AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben shows us putting its own flair on the farm to fork movement.

Settlement Talks Under Way Over Missouri Meat-Labeling Law

Settlement discussions are under way over a lawsuit challenging a Missouri measure making it a misdemeanor crime to promote plant-based food products as “meat.”

Lab Meat, Not Just Plants, Is Protein's Future, Startup Says

Food startup Just Inc., re-branded from Hampton Creek, doesn’t think the alternative for meat is just in plants -- but in meat itself.

Tyson Ventures Invests in Food Safety Testing Firm Clear Labs

Clear Lab uses a robotic platform to improve food safety and its method shortens testing turnaround times by up to five days.

2019 Meat Production and Consumption
2019 Meat Production and Consumption

Total 2019 meat production in the U.S. is currently projected to reach another record level of 103.3 billion pounds, up 1.3 percent year over year. 

Israeli Startups Join Firms Making Lab-Grown 'Clean Meat'

Several Israeli start-ups have joined a handful of companies around the globe trying to develop lab-grown meat, something they see as a solution to the needs of the world’s growing population and demand for food.

Is it Really the 'Year of the Vegan'?
Is it Really the 'Year of the Vegan'?

Consumer trends expect to see a surge in veganism but meat consumption continues to rise.

Drovers TV: Meat Production and Beef Demand on the Rise

Americans ate a record amount of red meat and poultry in 2018 as demand remained strong, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

Is it Really the 'Year of the Vegan'?
Is it Really the 'Year of the Vegan'?

Consumer trends expect to see a surge in veganism but meat consumption continues to rise.

Drovers TV: Meat Production and Beef Demand on the Rise
Drovers TV: Meat Production and Beef Demand on the Rise

Americans ate a record amount of red meat and poultry in 2018 as demand remained strong, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

How Are U.S. Beef Exports Despite Tariffs and Trade Tensions?
How Are U.S. Beef Exports Despite Tariffs and Trade Tensions?

The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) hasn’t released its November numbers past October due to the government shutdown. If they’re anything like October’s numbers, then they could be record-shattering.

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How Are U.S. Beef Exports Despite Tariffs and Trade Tensions?

The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) hasn’t released its November numbers past October due to the government shutdown. If they’re anything like October’s numbers, then they could be record-shattering.

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U.S. Cattlemen Pressuring For Trade Deal With Japan

Trade talk is a big issue for everyone here at the convention and the focus isn’t just on China. For another year, the priority remains the same, the cattle industry vocal they want a free trade deal with Japan.

An employee at a packing plant.
Nebraska Beef Processor Cited Nearly $183,000 for OSHA Violations

After an employee suffered severe burns from anhydrous ammonia exposure, a beef packing plant has been fined almost $183,000 by the federal government.

How do you Define 'Meat'?
How do you Define 'Meat'?

Four months after Missouri agreed to regulate the term meat, one of the nation's largest cattle producers, Nebraska, is now following suit.

Internet Beef Is Taking Advantage of Not-So-Hot Supermarket Meat
Internet Beef Is Taking Advantage of Not-So-Hot Supermarket Meat

Online stores have seen a major increase in demand for top-of-the-line beef such as wagyu.

Retail Beef Prices Strong Despite Increased Meat Supplies
Retail Beef Prices Strong Despite Increased Meat Supplies

November Choice retail beef prices were $5.911/lb., up from $5.840/lb. in October and 1.8 percent above the November 2017 price of $5807/lb.

Japan is the largest value destination for both U.S. beef and pork, with combined exports of more than $3.5 billion per year. But the Japanese red meat market is intensely competitive.
Beef Exports To Hit $8 Billion; USMEF Preps Japan Trade Talks

Beef exports remained on record pace in October, and talks with Japan are just beginning. Japan is the largest value destination for both U.S. beef and pork but the market is intensely competitive.

U.S. beef exports remained on a record-shattering value pace in October, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).
U.S. Beef Exports Remain at Record Pace

U.S. beef exports remained on a record-shattering value pace in October, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

U.S. Beef Exports Going Strong This Fall
U.S. Beef Exports Going Strong This Fall

The latest monthly trade data has been tabulated – for August – and U.S. beef trade continued its impressive performance with monthly exports up 9 percent and year-to-date export totals up 14.2% year over year.

Nalivka: USMCA Completed And Asia Trade Looking Even Better

Non-tariff exports of U.S. beef and pork to Mexico and Canada remain in place and we can now move forward with certainty toward our expanding North American trade opportunities.

Cargill’s multistakeholder Canadian Beef Sustainability Acceleration (CBSA) pilot project has seen a steady increase in participation from producers and retailers.
Cargill's Sustainability Pilot Yields +1 Million Pounds Of Beef in 3Q

Cargill’s multistakeholder Canadian Beef Sustainability Acceleration (CBSA) pilot project has seen a steady increase in participation from producers and retailers.

British consumers are warned their government may alter food safety regulations after Brexit, allowing U.S. and Canadian beef treated with hormones to enter the food supply.
UK’s Beef Hormone Ban Should Continue, Professors Say

British consumers are warned their government may alter food safety regulations after Brexit, allowing U.S. and Canadian beef treated with hormones to enter the food supply.

U.S. beef exports to Japan hit a post-BSE volume high in July, reaching 31,883 mt (up 15 percent from a year ago) valued at $196.3 million (up 12 percent).
Beef Export Value Reaching New Heights in Wide Range of Markets

Led by South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Latin America markets, July beef exports climbed 12% in volume to 116,575 mt, valued at $722 million – up 16% from a year ago and just slightly below the May 2018 record.

Marfrig Restructures, Names New CEO

Marfrig Global Foods announced a restructuring of its North and South American beef businesses and named Eduardo Miron as CEO.

Marfrig Global Foods announced a restructuring of its North and South American beef businesses and named Eduardo Miron as CEO.
Marfrig Restructures, Names New CEO

Marfrig Global Foods announced a restructuring of its North and South American beef businesses and named Eduardo Miron as CEO.

The first lab-produced burger cost $325,000. In 2018 costs were estimated at $363 per pound, and developers believe they can reduce that to a commercially-viable $3 to $5 per pound by 2020.
Protein's Disruptors Threaten Traditional Red Meat, Poultry Industries

Follow the money. That might be the best way to determine whether meatless meats become a disruptive technology for livestock producers or just another niche player in a multitrillion-dollar global protein industry.

“You’re Vegetarian Now”

WeWork’s enforced vegetarianism is a warning to livestock producers.

Texas rancher Meredith Ellis (center) participates in the Noble Research Institute’s Integrity Beef Alliance and is helping McDonald’s and other partners gain transparency into the beef supply chain.
McDonald's and Partners Seek Beef Chain Visibility For Customers

An innovative two-year pilot program between McDonald’s and stakeholders of the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (USRSB) aims to improve visibility on beef's journey from ranch to restaurant.

First-half exports to Japan were up 6% from a year ago in volume at 159,354 mt while value increased 12% to $1.02 billion.
Asian Markets Lead the Way for U.S. Beef Exports

First-half exports to Japan were up 6% from a year ago in volume, while value increased 12% to $1.02 billion. First-half exports to Korea climbed 36%, valued at $802.1 million – up 52% from last year’s record pace.

Drought is pushing more cows and heifers into the feedlot and to packers.
More Cows to Slaughter Fills the Beef Supply, Pauses Expansion

U.S. beef cow slaughter increased 10% through mid-April, in part due to herd liquidations stemming from drought in the southern Central Plains.

West Texas A&M University professor Ty Lawrence pursues conventional and unconventional improvements in beef quality.
Ty Lawrence Pushes Beef Quality to the Limit

Beef researcher at West Texas A&M University pursues conventional and unconventional improvements in beef quality.

“Battleground” In Beef Could Lead To Volatile Trade
“Battleground” In Beef Could Lead To Volatile Trade

Chip Nellinger of Blue Reef Agri-Marketing talks beef with AgDay host Clinton Griffiths.

Map of Japan
Japan Plans To Lift 50 Percent Frozen Beef Tariff By March’s End

The January report from the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) showed Japan is maintaining a large appetite for U.S. beef products.

The very narrow spread between CAB and Choice product, reduced even further from last week, represents a great buying opportunity for the premium brand.
CAB Insider: Cutout Values Take Another Sharp Increase

The very narrow spread between CAB and Choice product, reduced even further from last week, represents a great buying opportunity for the premium brand.

Farm Journal
CattleFax: 2017 Second Most Profitable Year, Can Prices Hold?

Greg Henderson says the cash fed cattle market has rallied $4 to $5. Cash fed cattle prices jumped to $4 per cwt to $130 during Friday, with dressed sales in the north were $5 higher at $205 per cwt