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McDonald's Sets March Sales Record In Japan
McDonald's Holdings Co. Japan says its monthly sales hit 43.05 billion yen in March, the highest level in the company's 36-year history...
Thieves like beef
The Food Marketing Institute says meat was the most shoplifted item in U.S. grocery stores in 2005, ahead of analgesics, razor blades and baby formula....
Market Basket Survey Finds Beef Is Getting Leaner
Retail beef is getting leaner. More importantly, however, retail beef is leaner than reported in government nutrition databases. Now, the beef industry has the science it needs...
2006 Grilling Season Treated Beef Very Well
Beef dollar sales and pound sales were up 3% and 6%, respectively, in 40 markets during the summer grilling program between June and September 2006...
Big Beef Buyers
During BEEF magazine's BEEF Quality Summit last November, a panel of the top purchasers of U.S. beef addressed the crowd of 160 attendees...
CAB logs another growth year
Despite abundant cattle supplies and a record-high 13.1 million identified Angus cattle, Certified Angus Beef (CAB) had a record-low 14% acceptance rate...
Food Safety To Get Look-See
The Democrat-led Congress plans to make food safety a top priority, which could include placing all governmental food safety divisions under a single...
McDonald's tests Angus burgers
McDonald's is testing hamburgers made with Angus beef at six Los Angeles-area restaurants. A McDonald's spokeswoman says customer response to the three...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
