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From Steve Kay, editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly. Catch a roundup of each week’s cattle-market activity every Friday afternoon! View the market review now!
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2007 BEEF Quality Summit Presentations
Where's The (quality) Beef?
Are we filling the demand for quality beef today? The answer depends on with whom you talk, according to lead speakers of BEEF magazine's 2007 BEEF Quality...
Does anyone smell smoke?
It's wrong to yell “FIRE” in a crowded theatre when there is none. Conversely, it's irresponsible to say nothing when you perceive a threat. Fortunately, the beef industry isn't facing a life-or-death issue as literal as a fire. But there is something smoldering in our basement...
Quality beef
All too often, the term quality beef is used within the industry very loosely and rhetorically. It makes us feel good to proclaim U.S. beef is the world's best, but...
California Nightmare
The tentacles of the largest beef recall in history – 143,383,823 lbs. – have reached all across the country. If the surreptitious video of exhausted and disabled dairy cattle being tortured...
From pasture to plate
The industry has its own version of how producers and feeders employ environmental stewardship The industry has its own version of how producers and feeders employ environmental stewardship – the www.BeefFromPastureToPlate.org site. It guides visitors through the stages...
Naturally raised claim
USDA wants comments on its proposed voluntary standard for a naturally raised marketing claim for livestock and meat. Published in the Nov. 28 Federal...
Canada firm cited as E. coli source
A Canadian firm, Ranchers Beef, Ltd., is the likely source of the E. coli O157:H7 that caused 100 reported illnesses in the U.S. and Canada and led to...
Partnering with Applebee's
Now through early January, in partnership with the beef checkoff, 1,900 Applebee's restaurants nationwide are offering several new cuts of savory beef....
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From Our Columnists
Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
