FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE National Center for Beef Excellence Names Jake W. Renner as Executive Director Kearney, Mo. — The National Center for Beef Excellence (NCBE) announces the hiring of Jake W. Renner as executive director, effective April 1, 2026. Renner brings a background spanning extension, breed association work, and agricultural business development, positioning [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2025 St. Joseph, Missouri - The National Center for Beef Excellence (NCBE) is pleased to announce the addition of Kaylee Gum to its team in the role of Customer Service Representative. Gum joined the organization on December 16, 2024, bringing a wealth of experience in the livestock industry. Gum grew [...]
National Center for Beef Excellence Customer Service Specialist November 2024 Who we are: The mission of the National Center for Beef Excellence (Beef Center) is to increase connectivity and innovation in all segments of the beef industry. Our efforts are aimed at building relationships, increasing demand-driven value, and enabling increased sustainability to producers and organizations [...]
Max Armstrong shares insight into how the pandemic is changing consumer eating habits.
– John F. Grimes, OCA Replacement Female Sale Manager The 2020 sale represented a $462 per head average price increase over the 2019 sale! The Ohio Cattlemen’s Association (OCA) held their eighth annual Replacement Female Sale on November 27 at the Muskingum Livestock Auction Company in Zanesville, Ohio. A large crowd was on hand to [...]
Max Armstrong shares news of a new report that offers good news in the productivity of the pork industry
– Mike Estadt, OSU Extension Educator, Pickaway County Do you know if your freezer beef customers are satisfied? It is well documented that early in the coronavirus pandemic, major meat processing facilities across the United States became supply bottlenecks due to employee infections shutting down production. In response to seeing less meat available in the [...]
– David Marrison, Extension Educator, ANR, Coshocton County Deadline to sign-up for CFAP-2 is December 11, 2020 The COVID pandemic has created disruption in many areas of agriculture. Instead of our usual market cycles, farmers saw prices move up and down in ways contrary to typical market cycles. To help farmers mitigate the impact of the [...]
Shorthorn breeders unite to promote fresh, quality beef to consumers. In the early days of the global coronavirus pandemic, many Americans faced an unsettling reality: empty grocery store shelves. Dramatic changes set in almost overnight and left families spending all of their time at home, limiting trips to the store and buying in bulk to [...]
As most of you know by now, the North American International Livestock Exposition is on! It was announced on September 18th that they are planning to move forward and have the show, which makes us all happy after hearing Denver had postponed. With that being said, it is going to look a little different at NAILE [...]
