Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Second Vice President Pete Bonds, Saginaw, was presented with BEEF magazine’s 2011 BEEF Stocker Award Thursday at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s (NCBA) 2012 Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show in Nashville. BEEF magazine announced Bonds as the 2011 Stocker of the Year honoree in October 2011. The Stocker of the Year Award was developed by BEEF magazine to showcase the best of the best in stocker management and to highlight this critical segment of the beef cattle industry. More... →
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What can the prices of individual beef and pork cuts tell us about consumer preferences and the types of animals we should consider raising? Are consumers telling us they want lean but paying for flavor? More... → A team of Texas Tech researchers was awarded $540,000 from the US Department of Agriculture and an additional $150,000 matching funds from the beef checkoff program to research and provide solutions for Salmonella in cattle. More... → Farmers, ranchers and even backyard gardeners can use SoilWeb, a free smartphone app that is a portable version of an online interface to the USDA-NRCS digital soil survey data. This app allows iPhone and Android users of a to gain an understanding of the soil type in the surrounding landscape. Soil health is a key factor in the success of plants—the type of soil determines what nutrients are needed, as well as how much water should be applied. More... → Locally heavy rain across central and eastern drought areas contrasted with unfavorably dry, warm weather elsewhere. A soaking rain fell from San Angelo northeastward across Dallas-Fort Worth into southeastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas. A second, smaller but locally heavier band of rain was observed from San Antonio and Austin eastward across Houston into Beaumont-Port Arthur. Consequently, widespread reductions in drought were made - in some case up to 2 categories - as a result of the heavy rain. However, reservoirs remained unfavorably low across the northeastern quarter of Texas; consequently, despite 2 to 3 inches of rain, relatively small improvements were made to Abnormal Dryness to Severe Drought in these locales. More... → Carmen Fenton, director of public affairs for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA), was announced as recipient of the 2011 Excellence in Communications and Public Relations award Thursday at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s (NCBA) 2012 Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show in Nashville. The award is presented annually to a NCBA state affiliate nominee who exhibits superior communications and public relations skills advocating on behalf of the beef cattle industry. More... → The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Wednesday 80 awards to American veterinarians to help repay a portion of their veterinary school loans in return for serving areas lacking sufficient veterinary resources. The awards, totaling more than $7.7 million, were made by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP) and will benefit 34 states, Puerto Rico, and other federal lands. More... → The U.S. Labor Department has backed away from a proposal that could have kept some youths younger than 16 from working on the family farm, saying it will take more time to consider changes to the so-called 'parental exemption' on farm child labor. More... → Kris Wingwall, North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension service beef specialist, discusses four factors in the beef industry that never go away - meat, fat, carcass size and carcass quality. The challenge for the beef producer is to align those four factors correctly and then try to integrate the calves produced into the current market. The challenge is difficult because the four factors do not always line up the same in terms of value through time and breeding programs. More... → |
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