Improved Weather Offers Nicholas Meat Reprieve, Beef Processing Plant Reopens With Limited Capacity

March 10, 2021 Nicholas Meat

Warmer weather means Nicholas Meat LLC is reopening. With snow melting, Nicholas Meat can now apply food processing residuals (FPR) on open fields and thus reopen, even if on a limited basis. The plant partially opened on Tues., March 2, and fully opened today, Wed., March 3.

Registration is Now Open for the 2021 Global Conference on Sustainable Beef

The 2021 Global Conference on Sustainable Beef, to be held April 14, 2021 (April 15 in New Zealand and Australia) will provide an exciting world-wide virtual platform to launch the vital and significant GRSB Global Goals to be implemented over the next ten years.

A World Without The Beef Checkoff

Certain interest groups have launched a full-court press to – in their own words – call for “an up or down vote on the termination” of the 35-year-old program. But what would the cattle industry look like without the Beef Checkoff, whose entire mission is beef promotion, research and education?

Beef’s Sustainability: Beef’s Role in a Resilient Food System

February 15, 2021 The Beef Checkoff

The path to sustainability is never complete. Rather, it is a continuous journey being carried out by the farmers and ranchers responsible for raising and supplying beef to the U.S. and across the world. To the beef community, sustainability comprises much more than environmental considerations. Today, a sustainable food supply balances efficient production with environmental, social and economic impacts.

FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Raw Ground Beef Product Due to Possible E. Coli O157:H7 Contamination

February 3, 2021 USDA FSIS

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert because raw beef product produced by Greater Omaha Packing Co. Inc., an Omaha, Neb. establishment, may be contaminated with E. coli. O157:H7. A recall was not requested because the affected product is no longer available for purchase.