Tag: meat

  • Wine Fed Beef

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    Another niche market has popped up in the beef industry – wine fed beef.  Canada is trying to produce the equivalent of Japanese Kobe beef by supplementing red wine from the Okanagan valley to the normal feedlot ration.  Cattle are fed this combination for the last 90 days before being harvested – feedlot owner Bill…

  • Bacon? Do I smell bacon?

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    It’s kind of hard to get that Beggin Strips commercial out of your head.  Bacon? Do I smell bacon? Makes me hungry thinking about it.  Is there another food that is so commonly used to make stuff better? Think about it?  Want to instantly make a filet mignon even more delicious?  Wrap bacon around it. Guess…

  • Know your product!

    Know your product!

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    This past week, I was in Denver for the National Animal Science Meetings (not the National Junior Angus Show).  I was presenting a poster on one of my animal behavior and well-being projects about swine restraint and blood sampling.  While National Meetings was very exciting and filled with opportunities: networking with industry leaders, talking to…

  • Vegan Tries Beef

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    Ok, so the vegan didn’t really try beef, but he did take a tour of a cattle feedlot in Wiggins, Colorado.  To be exact, it was the Magnum Feedyard owned by my friend Christine Gabel’s family.  The vegan, Ryan Andrews, visited the feedyard and wrote about his firsthand experiences with cattle nutrition, feedlot health systems,…

  • Summatime and the Grilling is Easy

    Summatime and the Grilling is Easy

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    I apologize blogging world for being gone for so long. I realized it has been almost TWO WEEKS since my last post, but I swear that won’t happen again.  After this, look for a post about wildlife in South Africa and an update on the Angel Food Cake saga! Anywho, it’s that time of the…