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2007 BEEF Quality Summit Presentations
REJECTED?
Cowboy wisdom holds that the first thing you should do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Good advice, but it's advice some in the beef...
Beef Quality Advocate
The beef industry must work day to day to keep its eye on the target. That's the motivation for Carl Crabtree, a Grangeville, ID rancher, in his efforts to make sure Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) programming remains “job one” throughout the U.S. beef industry.
For nearly 20 years, BQA educational programming has reached thousands of beef and dairy producers in nearly every state. BQA concepts have been instrumental in...
Interstate shipment
The House farm bill provision that would allow for the interstate shipment of state-inspected meat has met objections in the Senate....
PINGING For Premiums
Remember those old WW II movies? The ones where U.S. Navy ships are trolling for enemy submarines and the only sound that cuts the tension-thick air is...
All The Choice You Want
Look at the numbers commonly used to gauge industry trends in carcass quality and it's easy to conclude that fewer cattle are grading Choice. For instance,...
Handbook of Beef Safety and Quality
This 240-page guide edited by Oklahoma State University assistant professor of animal science Deborah L. VanOverbeke is aimed at beef-industry specialists,...
Identify the market, then add value
For all the opportunities that come with value-added markets, they can be the tail wagging the proverbial fleabag if you lose sight of the core product...
EC rules on GM
In a move sure to raise howls of protest from activists, the European Commission (EC) ruled last month that animals fed genetically modified (GM) feed...
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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...
