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Hey folks, Just found a great video from the Nebraska Beef Council that does an excellent job in presenting what we have been discussing. Please take the time to give it a look. It is on YouTube.com and is titled Raising Beef - A Nebraska Tradition

If animals are fed antibiotics to keep them from getting sick, are they healthy? This is what we call "prevention medicine". Research has shown the use of "some" antibiotics prevent calves from getting deathly sick at weaning time. Not so much different as giving your child a dose of Vitamin...

Action on Horse Bill Unlikely Congress eyes criminal penalties for moving horses to slaughter. (8/4/2008) Animal activists may have to wait for any Congressional action on a bill aimed at criminalizing the transport of U.S. horses to slaughter for human consumption. The...

JBS Swift Requires U .S. Feedlots to Waive Rights Under Packers & Stockyards Act Billings, Mont. – In late April, JBS Swift began sending a one-year contract to U.S. feedlots regarding conditions for the sale of slaughter-ready cattle to JBS Swift. R-CALF USA believes this contract...

Mixed Views On JBS' Purchase Of National, Smithfield Beef KANSAS CITY (Dow Jones)--Market analysts and agricultural economists hold mixed views of the JBS SA (JBSS3.BR) purchase of National Beef and Smithfield Foods' (SFD) beef division. If the deals are completed, JBS would be able to...

JBS Agrees to Acquire Smithfield Beef Unit, Australia's Tasman 2008-03-04 18:39 (New York) By Carlos Caminada and Heloiza Canassa March 4 (Bloomberg) -- JBS SA, the world's biggest beef producer, said it agreed to buy the beef unit of Smithfield Foods Inc. and the Tasman Group. of...

JBS Buys Out National Beef Partners for $560 Million 2008-03-04 18:24 (New York) By Choy Leng Yeong March 4 (Bloomberg) -- JBS SA, the world's biggest beef producer, agreed to buy out its partners in the National Beef Packing Co. LLC venture for $560 million in cash and stock. JBS...

Beef business going bust Alberta may lose up to 40 per cent of cow-calf operations by Christmas David Finlayson, The Edmonton Journal Published: Saturday, October 27 EDMONTON - Marcel Turgeon cried when he watched 50 years of his life get sold for $56,000. That's what the 63-year-old Lac La...

A friend of mine sent me an email with the video attached from the address below. It is from Roy Beck and deals with immigration and our country's future if we don't get a handle on this thing. The video is very disturbing, but you need to see it. All discussions on this website and others...

Just noticed a question asking if a Charloais bull on a black and/or black baldie cow is good. Very good question and a prime example of what the industry needs to answer. Currently, in most of the larger feedyyards that are selling grid and/or formula cattle to the major packers, I find the...

I've had about enough of this BS from, what's his name....Nowhere.....guess that means....nobody. I just confronted Ms Dodson about your rumors and guess what......there's more to the story. Not to carry this thing any further, but the sickness was not as it seemed and she has proof and...

"Do you want to make the argument that CSU was biased in their CHB vs CAB "pepsi challenge" taste test? Are they not "EXPERTS"?? " Scott, I knew you would get bent out of shape. I am not pushing the fact that there is alot of difference in taste between High Select and Low Choice. In fact...

Question for MRJ: Are you an active member of NCBA and/or you on one of their committees? If you are an active member, could you please update us on the process it takes to become 1) an active member of a committee, 2) process a person has to go through to become President of NCBA. I will...

Red Robin, Hate to disappoint you but the vision camera has been in use in the Excel plants for nearly two years now. Excel and Cargill have completely changed how they do their own company business because of what the vision cam is doing for them in the plant. Whether or not you believe the...

SH, In response to your statement that the PM Beef Group found instrument grading yielded a lower "quality grade" from the camera than from the USDA grader. So, what is your point? Question: When was that? Was it in the last 4 years or the last two years, just when was that? Reason: When...

During the business meeting NCBA passed cattle marketing policy requesting that, "USDA adopt the use of instrument vision grading technologies, therefore assisting the industry towards an objective, consistent system for evaluating beef quality characterestics." In visiting with the owner of...

Jolley: BearingPoint Fights Financial Default Claims BearingPoint Inc., the consulting firm that forms the keystone of the NCBA bid to develop an animal ID system by January, is facing serious financial difficulties. In a story published in the Washington Post this morning, the company said...

This was an editoral comment from AgCenter.com, dated Aug 26,05 THE PREMISE DISPUTE Many cattle producers have been requested to sign up for a premise number for their beef operation. This action was seen by most as a first step in ID of the national herd. The problem is ideas for premise...

I'm beginning to believe that maybe R-CALF was right about the USDA. What in the world is going on when they allow this cow to be imported and slaughtered? What if she was 31 months old, that is still over the limit. 30 months is 30 months. Who the hell do these inspectors think they are...

Thanks to everyone who responded to my marketing question. From the posts, it sounds like trade shows and demonstrations are the preferred places to see new products. That's what I needed to know. Therefore, both of the company's I represent will have displays at NCBA. For our business, that...