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2007 BEEF Quality Summit Presentations
Beef Quality Assurance
Violative residues
The elimination of violative residues in beef is one of the most important elements facing ranchers and cattle feeders in producing safe food products....
Tracking Cloned Livestock
In December, livestock cloning companies ViaGen, Inc. and Trans Ova Genetics introduced a supply chain management program to identify cloned animals as...
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...
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,...
Proving It
Better prices are available for calves and yearlings with third-party verification (TPV) of solid preconditioning and age and source verification. But...
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...
Do-It-Yourself Preconditioning
A feedyard pen, says Jack Scoggins Jr., isn't the place to start calves. While that reality has long been known by cattle feeders, it's especially true...
Animal Welfare Requirements For Federal Meat Purchases
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
