John Maday
John Maday | John Maday was raised in southern Wisconsin, and worked on diversified crop and livestock farms through high school and college. He earned a B.S. in Agronomy from the University of Wisconsin and an M.S. in Agricultural Extension Education from the University of Florida. Following graduate school, John worked at the University of Florida for six years, writing instructional materials and coordinating in-service training for Extension agents and vocational agriculture instructors. He spent 18 months in the West African nation of Cameroon teaching at the national college of agriculture and worked in agricultural public relations prior to joining the Drovers staff in 1993. He currently resides in Fort Collins, Colo., covering feedyards and western cow-calf production for Drovers. John's family includes wife Jane, son Ian and daughter Margaret. John was a co-recipient of the 1993 Oscar in Agriculture, and the 2000 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award.


The science of beef quality

John Maday, Managing Editor, Drovers CattleNetwork   |  Updated: 12/27/2012

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A great steak doesn’t just happen. A long list of factors ranging from genetics to aging and cooking techniques influence the beef-eating experience, and as a meat scientist at Colorado State University, Dale Woerner, PhD, devotes considerable study to those factors. Woerner updated an international group of beef producers and processors on beef-quality research last week during Novus International’s Global Beef Roundtable in Colorado. Steady growth in carcass weights of U.S. beef cattle plays a role in efforts to maximize beef quality, Woerner explains. Economic signals generally provide incentives for feeders to finish cattle at... View Blog Post »

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