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2006 Grilling Season Treated Beef Very Well
Beef dollar sales and pound sales were up 3% and 6%, respectively, in 40 markets during the summer grilling program between June and September 2006...
Big Beef Buyers
During BEEF magazine's BEEF Quality Summit last November, a panel of the top purchasers of U.S. beef addressed the crowd of 160 attendees...
CAB logs another growth year
Despite abundant cattle supplies and a record-high 13.1 million identified Angus cattle, Certified Angus Beef (CAB) had a record-low 14% acceptance rate...
Food Safety To Get Look-See
The Democrat-led Congress plans to make food safety a top priority, which could include placing all governmental food safety divisions under a single...
McDonald's tests Angus burgers
McDonald's is testing hamburgers made with Angus beef at six Los Angeles-area restaurants. A McDonald's spokeswoman says customer response to the three...
Test-Tube Meat
While cattle-free quarter-pounders or chicken-free nuggets may sound like science fiction, Jason Matheny, lead author of a paper on in vitro meat production...
Light-Fingered Shoppers Most Prefer Steak
McDonald's 4-Patty Big Mac Is A Big Hit In Japan
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...


















