Connecting the dots with grass-fed beef
Angela Bedient grew up raising animals and working for different farmers. She went to school for forestry and still has her hand in that field, but her primary (more…)
Chapel Creek Farms: Success with grass-fed beef
In 2019, Johnny and Melody Divers of Montvale, VA, bought out a cattleman who had been farming for 40 years. “He had built up a genetic line for grazing,” said Johnny. (more…)
4-H Beef Heifer Show at the Big E
Taking place on a drizzly New England Saturday afternoon, the Eastern States Exposition’s 4-H Beef Show went off without a hitch inside the Mallary Arena. (more…)
Making the most of marketing your beef
For beef producers, successfully engaging with your customer base is a real red meat issue.
Danette Amstein is co-founder of Midan Marketing, a strategic marketing, research and creative (more…)
Time well spent up front
There are T-shirts and mugs joking about how relationships, often between spouses, suffer during cattle handling. While handling cattle can be stressful for both humans (more…)
Reproductive tech to focus on
The goal of beef cow/calf production is to wean one heavy, healthy calf with the greatest genetic potential to perform per cow, every year, according to Jesse Fulton. (more…)
Cool genes for hot cattle
Adaptability traits are becoming more of a focal point in the cattle industry, according to Dr. Bob Weaber, a professor specializing in beef breeding and (more…)
