A variety of Latin spices flavored this year’s winning recipe for the National Beef Cook-Off. The grand prize of $50,000 went to Christine Riccitelli of Nevada. With her recipe for Nuevo Chipotle Beef in Butternut Squash Boats amateur home cook Christine Riccitelli of Incline Village, NV won the 27th National Beef Cook-Off and the $50,000 “Best of Beef” grand prize. …
Missouri Beef Industry Council Video PSA
The Missouri Beef Industry Council has been a client of ours since we started ZimmComm New Media going on four years ago. They called last week needing a video psa to use in the upcoming stage 4 event of the Tour of Missouri, a professional bicycle race across the state. So with a little help from iMovie and iDVD it …
Plans for New Beef Task Force
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell announces the creation of Pennsylvania Beef Task Force in an effort to improve the state’s beef and cattle industries. Pennsylvania’s beef industry will begin to explore ways to enhance profitability and promote itself through the creation of a task force, Governor Edward G. Rendell said today. “The beef and cattle industries in Pennsylvania include 28,000 producers …
Watching Meat Dry
Winn Meat Company poses the question, “What could be more fun than watching meat dry?” on it’s website. For those who like that kind of excitement they set up a web cam on which you could do just that. They call it the Dry Age Cam. For a bonus you get the recipes for the steak which is a Dry …
Baxter Entertains Beef Board
It’s getting near time for me to close up shop at ZimmComm New Media’s temporary Denver headquarters. The Cattle Industry Summer Conference is almost at an end. If you want to get a good overall summary of what happened from a Beef Board perspective then visit Beef Board Meeting.com. At last night’s CBB dinner we were entertained by Mr. Cowboy …
Beef Ambassador Blogs
I’ve interviewed Amanda Nolz more than once at a previous cattle industry meeting. Once was at last year’s winter meeting and once again last summer. Well, this ambassador for beef is now a blogger and I’m proud of her. Amanda is pictured here talking with Beef Board Executive Committee member Don Hullman at one of the meetings here at the …
New Beef Board Advertising
Things are kind of quiet here today at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference since it’s committee meeting after committee meeting. They’re working but that makes it a little challenging to get to talk to and do interviews. However I caught John Dudley before his committee got started. He’s chairman of the Joint Advertising Committee. Their meeting is combined with the …
Getting To Know Tom Ramey
He’s no Monte Reese but . . . He’s good and he’s the CEO of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board. This is Tom’s first summer conference in his new position which he took over after Monte Reese retired. Tom’s pictured here at the media reception last night. He’s speaking with Chelsea Good, interning at the Angus Journal. Tom is not a …
Pre-Conditioning With SureHealth
Here at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference I learned more about Merial’s SureHealth program by talking with Dr. Van Ricketts. He’s Director of Corporate Accounts for the company. Let me take this opportunity to thank Merial for sponsoring the media room here at the conference. The main message he had here for beef producers had to do with pre-conditioning of …
Learning How NCBA Performs Beef Checkoff Work
You may know that the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association performs work for the Beef Checkoff under various contracts. The man who helps oversee that along with everything else that NCBA does is Terry Stokes, CEO. Terry is being interviewed here by Ron Hayes, Radio Oklahoma Network, in the media room this morning. BTW, Ron was just recently inducted into the …