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2007 BEEF Quality Summit Presentations
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
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...
