Beef Industry News and Views
It isn’t just ourselves or our pets that have been getting bigger over the past couple of decades. Turns out, our beef cows have become gigantic too. How big? According to an excellent article by Melody Petersen in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “the average weight of a fattened steer sold to a packing plant [...]
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The small town butcher shop, where your meat is cut to order and the butcher knows your name, may seem like a relic of an earlier time. But, as Jay Walters of Out West Meat can attest, the tradition is alive and well in Rifle.On a recent afternoon, Walters was standing behind the display case [...]
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Pink slime was a wake-up call. Americans were mortified to see news footage of slabs of fat traveling along a conveyer belt, destined for a spin in a centrifuge and a spritz of ammonia before being mixed into fatty ground beef. The resulting “lean finely-textured beef” (the euphemism for the slime) is safe, but the [...]
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The biggest rout in commodities since the global recession may be a sign that the fastest U.S. inflation in three years is peaking. The Standard & Poor’s GSCI Index of 24 commodities entered a bear market last month after sliding more than 20 percent from a two-year high in April, on concern that slower growth [...]
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ranchers and law enforcement officers say rustling has become a multimillion dollar problem in the U.S. as high beef prices have made cattle an attractive quick score for people struggling in the sluggish economy.There’s no clearinghouse that tracks thefts nationally. But the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association says some 4,500 [...]
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U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says some of the nation’s largest retailers are already asking for the kinds of new food-safety tests for raw beef that the U.S.D.A. will require this coming spring. The U.S.D.A. is expanding the testing on beef to check for six more strains of e-coli. “That’s a big deal and it’s [...]
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WOOSTER, Ohio – Oct. 17, 2011 – Certified Angus Beef LLC, for the fifth consecutive year, reported record sales for its signature brand of beef, with nine out of 12 months in fiscal 2011 hitting new heights. Efforts by the brand’s licensed partners led to sales totaling 807 million pounds, an increase of almost 4% [...]
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This article does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors and management of Nation’s Restaurant News. Fears of global economic slowdown, along with disappointment over the lack of stimulus from the Federal Reserve and Congress, led to a broad-based sell-off in both equities and commodities in September. This is the third major sell-off this [...]
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The USDA Choice and USDA Prime grade shields are highly regarded, both domestically and internationally, as symbols of high-quality American beef. Cattle producers and feeders increasingly rely on USDA grades to determine payments for their cattle—a vital link to supporting and sustaining rural America. Beef is graded at about 35 facilities nationwide, with some facilities [...]
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Colorado River Ranch one of just a few in the state certified ‘organic’ EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado — Scott Jones has found his dream job — even if it often means before-dawn to after-dark workdays. Jones is the manager at the Colorado River Ranch, a bit more than 10 miles north of Dotsero. Several years ago, [...]
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