National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
When the topic of sustainability comes up cattle circles, it’s common to see heads shaking. It’s not a topic we like to discuss – primarily because it’s so often raised with bad intentions and worse information.
Workable free trade relationships are critical to U.S. cattle producers.
“Where’s the beef?” The catchy slogan could be updated to “Where’s the fresh, quality beef?” And the answer would still be the same: Wendy’s.
Will the cattle market keep sliding in 2016? Could there be a rally? See what the analysts from CattleFax have to say.
Steps are being taken by CME Group to address volatility in the cattle markets, although producers will still have to deal with a bearish marketplace.
During the NCBA Cattle Marketing and International Trade Committee meeting at the Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville this week, Ron Bryant, U.S. Ruminants division with Merck, recapped the five-step plan Merck developed with the cattle industry.
Beef producers from the four largest beef producing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member countries continue to advocate that any TPP agreement must deliver on the 2011 TPP Ministers’ position of eliminating tariffs and other barriers to trade.
This week, two producers were honored with the checkoff’s annual national Beef Quality Assurance and Dairy Beef Quality Assurance awards.
Don Butler, director of agriculture for the state of Arizona from 2003 to 2013 and a former president of the National Cattlemen’s Association, has received the prestigious Swan Family Leadership Award.
It was announced last month that McDonald’s is going to invest in sustainable beef. While a clear definition has not been entirely outlined attendees of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Cattlemen’s College got a little better idea of what to expect.
Cattlemen and women gathered today at the 2014 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Trade Show to hear CattleFax market analysts’ projections for the year ahead.
Frank and Sims Price Ranch, Sterling City, Texas, was named the national winner of the National Cattlemen’s Foundation Environmental Stewardship Award Program.
Those attending the 2014 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 4-7 should be sure to pack their comfortable walking shoes. The NCBA Trade Show – for years, the beef cattle industry’s largest – is getting bigger, adding more than 30 exhibitors and thousands of square feet of booth space.
Registration and housing for the 2016 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Trade Show has opened.
More than 600 cattle producers gathered for the Cattle Industry Summer Conference in Denver this past week to help set direction for industry programs.
State cattlemen’s associations compete to help boost beef education.
Cow/calf and stocker producer Kim Brackett from Buhl, Idaho, was elected by fellow Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB) members to serve as CBB chairman in 2014.
Kim Brackett, Jimmy Maxey and Anne Anderson are the new Cattlemen’s Beef Board Officers.
This past week during the 2014 Annual Cattle Industry Convention, key checkoff leaders and investors from across the country heard about the recently conducted Beef Industry Scan.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is restructuring.
Green Monday is an Asian start-up gaining notoriety for its anti-livestock message “to tackle climate change and global food insecurity by making low-carbon and sustainable living simple, viral and actionable.”
Registration for the 2015 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Trade Show is underway.
2015 Cattle Industry Convention-goers will not want to miss the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Trade Show in San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 4-7.
More than 7,000 cattlemen and women from across the country are registered to attend the 2015 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Trade Show.
Cattle Industry Convention Keynote Speaker Encourages Members to Create “Breakthrough Opportunities”
Keynote speaker Erik Wahl encouraged cattlemen to “break outside of business as usual” to create new opportunities and become stronger through failure at the Opening General Session of the 2015 Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Trade Show.
The Cattle Industry Convention kicked off with two days of producer education on Feb. 3-4, 2015.
The Missouri Cattlemen’s Association and the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association each earned use of a piece of equipment from New Holland for their outstanding efforts to recruit new members to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.
A team of students from Pennsylvania State University took top honors in the 2015 National Collegiate Quiz Bowl, held in conjunction with the 2015 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in San Antonio, Texas, Feb 6.
The Missouri Cattlemen’s Association earned the use of a piece of equipment from New Holland for their efforts to recruit new members for NCBA.