The Alabama Cattlemen’s Association is encouraging young culinarians through an upcoming cookoff event. We caught up with Erin Beasley with the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association to learn more. “Well, it’s a cook-off that the ACA and Alabama Cattlewomen’s Association are well known for and that is our junior and senior high school beef cook-off. We’ve been doing this event since the 60s and …
Florida Beef Council Director Shares Insights from New Director Orientation
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association recently held a new director orientation for state checkoff directors and Dr. Chad Carr with the University of Florida, who serves on the Florida Beef Council Board of Directors, shared his insights from the training. Dr. Carr said, “The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, they put on an orientation for new state board members and state staff …
Georgia Beef Board Developing Recipe Videos With the Dairy Alliance
The Georgia Beef Board is promoting beef through a new recipe video collaboration with the Dairy Alliance. We caught up with Wyatt Doolittle with the Georgia Beef Board to learn more. Doolittle said, “We’ve been working on something really exciting behind the scenes with our partners over at the Dairy Alliance. So we’ve been filming a new series of recipe videos …
USDA Provides Insights of Cattle Market Through Latest Cattle on Feed Report
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released their March Cattle on Feed Report and livestock analyst Michael McConnell provides insights on the current cattle market. McConnell said, “According to the NASS cattle on feed report for the month of March, as of March 1st in feedlots with a capacity of over a thousand head, there was 11.55 million cattle in those feedlots, …
USDA Under Secretary Provides Update on New World Screwworm Efforts
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been working to eradicate the New World Screwworm through a five-pronged plan and Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Dudley Hoskins provided an update on their efforts so far. Under Secretary Hoskins said, “One of those key pillars under that five-pronged plan was enhancing our capability and infrastructure and enhancing the sterile fly production that …
Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming Subject
The Florida Cattle Enhancement Board has provided an opportunity to highlight a difficult subject in farming through a podcast series. We caught up with Marshal Sewell with the Mind Your Melon Foundation to learn more. Sewell said, “We have got a really cool opportunity to get to work with the Florida Cattle Enhancement Board and the Florida Cattlemen’s Association to continue …
USDA NIFA Announces New Competitive Grant To address Pests like NWS
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture have announced a new competitive grant to allow the department to quickly address diseases and pests like the New World Screwworm. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins posted on X, “Emerging pests and diseases such as NWS can quickly devastate American agriculture if we are not prepared. These pests and …
Labor Strike at JBS
Some major media outlets have reported that the labor strike at the greedy Colorado beef plant is going to reduce the amount of meat available to consumers. Bottom Line analysts say that’s simply not true. The strike at the plant, entering its fifth day now today, it is by the way the first strike at a U.S. meat packing facility in some 40 …
USDA Releases Beef and Pork Production and Pricing Forecasts
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released the Beef and Pork production and pricing outlook for March. World Agricultural Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski explains, “Beef production, we lowered down to 25.8 billion pounds and this reduction is just based on recent slaughter data, seeing a little bit of a slowdown in the rate of slaughter, which isn’t too surprising given the …
NCBA Addresses Rumors of False Animal Health Information in Texas Feedlots
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) CEO Colin Woodall is addressing online rumors of false animal health information in feedlots in Texas. Woodall released a statement saying, “The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is aware of online rumors that allege a new or unknown animal disease is circulating in a feedlot in the Texas Panhandle. These claims are false. Animal health …










