Big Muddy rancher
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katrina said:To be cab all you have to have is a angus registred daddy right? So you could breed your angus bull to anything and go
CAB... Correct me if I'm wrong...
If it meets carcass specs I think. :?
katrina said:To be cab all you have to have is a angus registred daddy right? So you could breed your angus bull to anything and go
CAB... Correct me if I'm wrong...
nortexsook said:>>Close they have been letting 1/2 hereford pass for a long time. Wink<<
I got news for ya. a 15/16th Hereford could pass CAB as long as it was 50% black hided and met the carcass specs.
Dylan Biggs said:nortexsook said:>>Close they have been letting 1/2 hereford pass for a long time. Wink<<
I got news for ya. a 15/16th Hereford could pass CAB as long as it was 50% black hided and met the carcass specs.
This is exactly what I was told by the chief grader at the 4500 hd/day plant up here at Brooks when they started up CAB qualifying. He told me a Holstein could qualify CAB as long as the animal had at least a 50% black hide and met the carcass specs. :roll:
Denny said:Dylan Biggs said:nortexsook said:>>Close they have been letting 1/2 hereford pass for a long time. Wink<<
I got news for ya. a 15/16th Hereford could pass CAB as long as it was 50% black hided and met the carcass specs.
This is exactly what I was told by the chief grader at the 4500 hd/day plant up here at Brooks when they started up CAB qualifying. He told me a Holstein could qualify CAB as long as the animal had at least a 50% black hide and met the carcass specs. :roll:
Well then everyone has a chance to get in on the premiums the Angus ASSN has promoted for over 30 years. Like everything it's not perfect but it's alot better than sitting on your hand like most breed associations do.It's kinda funny everyone wants to bash the successful guy no matter his business.
Meeting the carcass specs is the hardest part I figure if you've got cattle that do it you should get a premium.
Big Muddy rancher said:katrina said:To be cab all you have to have is a angus registred daddy right? So you could breed your angus bull to anything and go
CAB... Correct me if I'm wrong...
If it meets carcass specs I think. :?
jeff in ca said:CAB is a marvelous marketing tool. It is part of our culture and very recognizable by the consumer. Watching Diners, Drive in, and Dives last night, the owner of hamburger joint featured, was proud to serve CAB burgers.
We as producers can argue till the cows come home about CAB's content just because we have some knowledge on the subject. Most people are creatures of habit and buy name brand products. Take Tide soap for example; do any of you all believe, it is that much different than the store brand counterpart? I, highly doubt it.. But people lay down more money for Tide because of marketing and it is a name brand.
CAB has done what our check off dollars have failed to do. Given the consumer something to hang there hat on in a beef product. This cost the cow calf man??
Just my humble observation of the CAB program.
Faster horses said:I see more and more places advertising
"Black Angus Beef or Angus beef"; so if the demand for it is there, because the product is obviously good, how can that be false advertising?
:wink: right!PureCountry said:Faster horses said:I see more and more places advertising
"Black Angus Beef or Angus beef"; so if the demand for it is there, because the product is obviously good, how can that be false advertising?
It's "false" because the beef is not necessarily Angus. Period.
Faster horses said:So, if you don't know this, how can you say with
certainty that it is false advertising?
PureCountry said:Faster horses said:So, if you don't know this, how can you say with
certainty that it is false advertising?
At the risk of repeating myself, the WHOLE system, campaign, advertising scheme - all of it, is "FALSE" because there is absolutely no guarantee that you are getting Angus beef.
To illustrate my argument FH let's take my ranch for example. We run 200 head around here that are anything from purebred Galloway, purebred Highland, purebred Angus to a wide variety of crosses. We feed no grain to anything, and all of our fat cattle are finished solely on grass. Thus, our advertising states that our beef is 100% GRASS FINISHED and ALL-NATURAL. No hormones, no antibiotics and no vaccinations.
That's our campaign in a nutshell. AT NO POINT, in our advertising or marketing did it ever cross our minds to call it Certified Galloway Beef, on the premise that it's MOST LIKELY GALLOWAY, since 75% of our herd is purebred or halfblood Galloway.