by Greg Hanes, CEO, Cattlemen’s Beef Board There seems to be a rash of articles and news pieces in ag media lately, focused on beef demand and its driving power…
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The Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB) will invest approximately $39,380,000 into programs for beef promotion, research, consumer information, industry information, foreign marketing and producer communications during fiscal 2021, subject to USDA…
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AFBF’S Market Intel series has examined the impact that COVID-19 has had on livestock, beef and pork markets over the course of the pandemic. Food production was significantly disrupted, especially at livestock processing facilities, where labor shortages…
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In the last few years, it’s become evident that the beef industry needs more processing capacity. That only became more clear this spring, when a bottleneck in U.S. cattle processing…
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This spring, when wholesale beef prices reached record levels and shelves at the meat counter began to look a little bare, consumer interest in locally raised meat began to take…
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Taiwanese President Tsai-Ing-wen said the territory would soon lift restrictions on U.S. pork and beef, paving the way for an eventual free trade agreement with America. Since 2007, Taiwan has…
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COVID-19 has presented it’s challenges especially in the market place for livestock producers. Those challenges include the shutdown of major packing facilities, backlog of market ready livestock, and on the…
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Bismarck, N.D. – Jason Zahn, a Towner, N.D., rancher, was recently appointed by Governor Doug Burgum to the North Dakota Beef Commission (NDBC) as a beef producer director. He will…
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Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-SD) and Henry Cuellar (D-TX) introduced the Direct Interstate Retail Exemption for Certain Transactions (DIRECT) Act. This legislation will allow state inspected meat…
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Officials with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted 19,555 pounds of prohibited pork, chicken, beef and duck products arriving from China at the ports of Los Angeles and…