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Posted on October 10, 2023
For beef producers, successfully engaging with your customer base is a real red meat issue. Danette Amstein is co-founder of Midan Marketing, a strategic marketing, research and creative agency that focuses solely on being champions for the value of meat. She has researched the beef consumer populat...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on September 12, 2023
There are T-shirts and mugs joking about how relationships, often between spouses, suffer during cattle handling. While handling cattle can be stressful for both humans and animals, several critical factors can make the process less stressful for all. In a live online event, two experts discussed th...
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Enrico Villamaino 
Posted on September 12, 2023
The goal of beef cow/calf production is to wean one heavy, healthy calf with the greatest genetic potential to perform per cow, every year, according to Jesse Fulton. The director of Beef Quality Assurance for the University of Nebraska’s Extension program, Fulton spelled out the best way to go abou...
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Enrico Villamaino 
Posted on August 15, 2023
Adaptability traits are becoming more of a focal point in the cattle industry, according to Dr. Bob Weaber, a professor specializing in beef breeding and genetics at Kansas State University. Weaber, who also works as an Extension specialist at KSU, said that identifying desirable adaptability traits...
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by Sally Colby 
March 4, 2026
As African swine fever (ASF) inches closer to the U.S., many countries are already dealing with the devastating disease that can shut down both large ...
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by Maddy Poitras 
March 4, 2026
I am Maddy Poitras, an active Junior member in the seven major dairy breeds associations. Every year the event I most look forward to, which starts th...
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ning of different colors. Go out every by Karl H. Kazaks 
March 4, 2026
Over 650 people attended the 2026 North Carolina Commodities Conference. One of the highlight speakers was Alex Harrell, farmer from southwest Georgia...
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by Deborah Jeanne Sergeant 
March 4, 2026
For Kerry Hollier, owner of Teasel Meadow Farms in Red Creek, NY, raising pigs is in his blood. For the past 10 years, he’s raised freezer pork and fe...
