Benchlining beef quality

Dan Dorn, supply development manager for Decatur County Feed yard, Oberlin, Kansas, discusses how the feedyard uses results of the National Beef Quality Audit, along with its own records, to track progress in beef quality and negotiate grid prices. For more information on the 2011 National Beef Quality Audit, read NBQA: Sneak peek.

1. Beef research and resources update
2. Workshop to discuss nutrient application, management, stewardship
3. Help for flood affected farmers
4. Representative Lucas discusses new Farm Bill
5. U.S. May consumer sentiment highest in nearly 6 years
6. Cattle producers turn to MSU for reproduction class

1. New school lunch beef recipes win approval from kids, foodservice
2. Prices for corn and soybeans, five years from now
3. Drier weather to give big boost to U.S. corn plantings
4. Agriculture is expected to remain strong in the coming decade
5. What sick day? Farmers take just three a year
6. The relationship between retail gasoline prices and futures prices

1. Insects. They’re what’s for dinner!
2. Tyson selects panel to monitor animal welfare program
3. World food supply depends on character, virtuous leadership
4. Commentary: Slanting the statistics
5. Buffet concerned about soil and starvation
6. Cold spring stunts upper Midwest hay crop