Today is National Agriculture Day across the country, and as we celebrate this annual event, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service is reporting that family-owned farms remain the backbone of the agriculture industry. The latest data comes from the Census of Agriculture farm typology report which helps shine some light on the question, “What is a family …
Southeastern Livestock Exposition Rodeo Is This Weekend
The 2015 Southeastern Livestock Exposition Rodeo will take place March 19–21 at Garrett Coliseum in Montgomery, Alabama. The Alabama Cattlemen’s Association invites everyone to attend. Download Audio Tickets are available at the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association office, by calling 1-888-2rodeo2 or at the ACA website. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida …
Beef Farm-to-Fork Tours Getting the Message Out in Florida
Chairman of the Florida Beef Council, Cliff Coddington, has seen how important farm-to-fork tours they’ve held are to the industry as tour participants learn many things about the beef industry. Download Audio Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune 19, 2026Verdant …
Culinary Teachers Learn about Georgia Beef
Suzanne Bentley with the Georgia Beef Board has information about an event they attended this past weekend where they talked beef with high school culinary teachers. Download Audio Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune 19, 2026Verdant Robotics Offers Growers Targeted …
Celebrating National Agriculture Day
This Wednesday, March 18 will be National Agriculture Day, spotlighting American agriculture and serving as a reminder that agriculture is part of us all. Download Audio For more information go to www.agday.org. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune 19, 2026Verdant …
Seven Groups Sign Beef Checkoff MOU
Seven national organizations that are members of the Beef Checkoff Enhancement Working Group reached an agreement last Friday on how to proceed with a campaign to increase the checkoff from one-dollar per head to two-dollars per head. Download Audio Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher …
Poultry Bans by Foreign Buyers Just One More Price Depressor
Are the various bans and restrictions that some countries are putting on poultry from certain U.S. states and regions actually bringing poultry prices down? Gary Crawford has a story to help answer that question. Download Audio Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World …
U.S. Producers Impressed with FoodEx Trade Show in Tokyo
A group of U.S. producers and other industry leaders recently traveled to Shanghai and Tokyo for the U.S. Meat Export Federation Market Expo, a market education program designed to give USMEF members an opportunity to observe international marketing activities for U.S. red meat and to learn more about the business climate in specific international markets. Joe Schuele has more on …
Beef Industry Discusses Research Efforts
The Beef Industry Safety Summit took place last week in Dallas, Texas and Kristina Butts, Executive Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, says the beef industry got together for their annual meeting. Download Audio Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses …
Now Is a Good Time to Get BQA Certified
In this week’s BQA Quality Report, brought to you by your state and national checkoff funded Beef Quality Assurance programs, Auburn University’s Frank Owsley is pleased that producers can go through the BQA certification process online for free. And he encourages you to do so before this offer expires on April 15th. Download Audio Get to know your BQA program …