Beef Magazine

Beef-Quality Paradox 

Aug 1, 2007 - By Wes Ishmael Contributing Editor

Depending on who runs the numbers, the percentage of beef cattle grading Choice or higher has remained static or declined. This is despite an extraordinary...

Consumers And Cloning 

Jul 1, 2007 - By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

The safety is clear. It's the emotional aspects that tend to muddy things in consumers' minds. And so, just as with nearly every issue that the cattle...

It All Began With An ID Tag 

Jun 29, 2007 - Art Brownlee

We began with the great unknown and a question -- what really is our end-product in this process we call ranching? Our family views raising commercial cattle as a handiwork but ...

MARC Releases 2007 Across-Breed EPD Calculations 

Jun 15, 2007 - U.S. Meat Animal Research Center

USDA's Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) has released its table of adjustment factors to be used to estimate ...

Continuing Commitment 

Jun 1, 2007 - By Kindra Gordon

The challenge to BIF is to remain dynamic and move into the 21st century with a program attuned to the technology of that era. Embryo transfer, cloning...

Measuring Doability 

Jun 1, 2007 - By Bill Zimmerman

Most of the efficiency work underway today is focused on growing cattle. While cow feed costs are of overriding importance in integrated beef-production...

Predicting "Doability" In Cattle  

May 4, 2007 - Bill Zimmerman

There's something almost mystical about "doability" in cattle. We all think we know what it is when we see it -- steers that keep gaining during a Panhandle snowstorm, cows that...

Predicting Doability 

May 1, 2007 - By Bill Zimmerman

There's something almost mystical about in cattle. We all think we know what it is when we see it steers that keep gaining during a Panhandle snowstorm...

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