Let me begin by saying that this issue has grown wildly out of proportion. By that I mean simply that by heralding this as “the largest beef recall ever,” the mainstream press has made an infuriating isolated incident into a great bruhaha of a spectacle, attempting in one fell swope to sully the USDA Inspection […]
Five Ohio families are featured in a new awareness campaign from the Natural Resource Conservation Service. The campaign, called “Conservation: Our Purpose, Our Passion,” focuses not on programs, but on individual producers and the successes they’ve enjoyed with NRCS programming. Ohio has one of the larger contingents of all the states represented, with producers using […]
A summation of big policy issues from the Cattle Industry Convention: Members of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) held their board of directors meeting and annual membership meeting today, as the Cattle Industry Annual Convention concluded in Reno. Cattlemen debated a number of important policy issues, but enhancement of the Beef Checkoff […]
In the end, it’s all about the food: Beef, dairy and veal industry leaders attending the Veal Council Meeting at the 2008 Cattle Industry Annual Convention & Trade Show in Reno, Nev., learned more about four new veal cuts designed for the casual theme segment of the foodservice industry to help increase veal demand […]
According to the latest research, the beef checkoff is doing extremely well: How well do you know your checkoff? Without prompting, 87 percent had heard of the program, and 68 percent consider themselves somewhat or very well informed, according to a recent study by Aspen Media & Market Research, Boulder, Colo. In total, random […]
Ohio’s own Kroger Company earned the Retail Beef Backer “Innovator” of the Year Award today at the Cattle Industry Annual Convention in Reno. I’ll be talking with some of our friends with Kroger later this morning, so watch for more! The Beef Checkoff Program announced the winners of the first annual national Retail Beef […]
Showing’ the love to the folks who grill those great steaks: National Beef Backer Award winners in foodservice were announced today by the Beef Checkoff Program at the Annual Cattle Industry Conference in Reno, Nev. The Beef Backer Award recognizes chain and independent restaurant operators who excel in menuing and marketing beef. This year’s […]
The news coming out of the Beef Checkoff here in Reno just makes me hungry… Here’s the latest on dry aging: Do any of these words come to mind when you think of beef? Buttery. Rich. Mellow. Superb. Earthy. If traditional beef doesn’t have the taste buds screaming “intense,” then dry-aged beef might arouse […]
As if it wasn’t enough that the Colorado Pork Producers Council decided to “unilaterally disarm” on the subject of using gestation stalls, now the state legislature is getting in the mud on National Animal ID. This story goes back to last year’s Colorado State Fair, where some students were disqualified for not obeying expo rules […]
Just wrapped up the Annual Cattle-Fax Outlook seminar here at the Cattle Industry Annual Convention. The analyists shared there thoughts with a packed house of producers. Here’s the summary: The corn market will dominate cattle talk in 2008. While the industry struggled to adjust to $3 per bushel corn for most of last year, […]
