Cattle Market Update
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
Beef Tenderness -- Genetics And Management
A checkoff-funded study on beef tenderness provided some carcass insights between steers and heifers. Authored by Colorado State University's Darryl Tatum, the study showed that, despite heifers tending to have ...
A Day Late & A Dollar Short
How a lack of resolve 30 years ago had the meat industry playing catch-up....
Implants' effects
A report appearing in the British journal Human Reproduction in March speculates a link between infertility in adult males with the amount of beef consumed...
And They're Off
It sounds like a sure winner. Combine consumers' demand for precooked, convenience products along with their insatiable craving for hamburgers, and you get the precooked hamburger ...
And Fluffy shall lead them
BSE? Nope. Worries about a virulent foreign animal disease like foot-and-mouth disease introduced by accident or intention? Nahh. Increased price volatility...
Nutrition labeling spurs beef sales
Midwest retailer finds nutrition labeling boosts sales and consumer attitudes about beef. Indiana's Marsh Supermarkets Inc. held a 16-week project...
Take off the blinders
More profitability is a constant quest for beef-cattle producers. There are two basic ways to increase profit get paid more for the product you're marketing,...
Two centuries of diets
Since the early 1800s, the public has been deluged with “sure-to-work” diets. The following is a chronological list, ranging from the ridiculous to sensible, courtesy of the American Dietetic Association...
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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...
