Beef News

Jason Campbell helps clean off his daughter's calf in preparation for the Weld County Fair's Beef Show on Friday at Island Grove Regional Park in Greeley.

This time on America's Test Kitchen, we investigate junk food engineering with author Michael Moss to find out how food companies weaponize ingredients to create addiction.

Arkansas Times Recommends is a weekly series in which Times staff members highlight things we've been enjoying this week.

Megan Fox credited a very low carb, low-sugar, Paleo-style diet for her rapid post-baby weight loss just five months after giving birth to her second son.

The price it paid for brisket jumped a net 54 percent in just six months. It had cut its staff from 13 to seven.

We know what trees and pollen can do to allergy sufferers. But did you know some people are allergic to beef? Our own Jed Castles recently learn that he's allergic to beef, and we caught up with him to talk about the issue.

Where's the beef? For many cash-strapped consumers, it's not in their shopping carts.

As Josh Harkinson noted this week, cows are the United States' single biggest source of methane - a potent gas that has 105 times the heat-trapping ability of carbon dioxide.

The owner of Saslove's Meat Market said suppliers have been raising the price bit by bit since February, after warnings from economists and industry experts.

Dean Hunt looked out over the cattle grazing in the pastures of his farm nestled in the Arcata Bottom as he talked about the impacts the drought has had on the business, including the rising cost of feed and the number of cattle available for purchase.

If you don't think they're serious about sustainability out at the University of Georgia's J. Phil Campbell Sr. Research and Education Center in Oconee County, then you haven't seen the revolutionary, yet old-fashioned, way they're tending their cattle herd.

What's the best advice you can give a meat lover? Buy a big freezer, go to Costco and stock up on ground beef and steaks, because beef won't be this cheap for several years.

The Jim Wells County Farmer's Market is held the second Saturday of the month through Nov. 8. The market is open from 9 a.m. to noon at Green's Nursery, 1464 E. Main St., Alice.

Eleri Lloyd from Ffynonlwyd Farm, Llangynin, Carmarthenshire, has today been crowned NFU Cymru / Principality Building Society Wales Woman Farmer of the Year at the Royal Welsh Show.

For the Stevens clan, dairy farming always has been and always will be a family affair.

With its occupancy permit expected today, Hom Wood-fired Grill is preparing to debut Friday at Bayshore Town Center in Glendale.

Anyone who's seen Come Dine With Me will understand - knowledgably pairing wine with food is a skill worth having, and some feel under considerable pressure to get it right.

The "Chitarrina Allo Scoglio" brings shrimp, fish fillet, diver scallops and razor clams, tossed with housemade spaghetti and served with a San Marzano tomato sauce and basil.

Have you ever sampled the food of Colombia? I suppose that until their soccer team's impressive run to the 2014 World Cup quarter finals, it's not something you've given much thought.

Ed Czerwien, USDA Market News reporter in Amarillo, TX, provides us with the latest outlook on boxed beef prices and the weekly cattle trade.