News tagged with beef
Lawmaker wants probe of E. coli and school lunches
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.
Researchers find way to cut cattle methane, threat to environment, by 25 percent
May 07, 2009 |
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Beef farmers can breathe easier thanks to University of Alberta researchers who have developed a formula to reduce methane gas in cattle.
Good taste measured by science; oleic acid in beef used to predict taste
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Different projects and research are under way to create standards indicating how good agricultural and livestock products taste.
Breeding their horns off -- a winner
Aug 19, 2009 |
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A team of scientists led by CSIRO's Dr Kishore Prayaga has been awarded a prestigious Australian Museum Eureka Prize for its work to develop a simple genetic test which has the potential to end the need to ...
Big cattle -- the genes that determine carcass weight
Aug 04, 2009 |
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An area of chromosome 6 that affects cattle carcass weight has been identified using two different Japanese species. Knowledge of this four-gene region, described in the open access journal BMC Genetics, should be useful ...
Cattle fed distiller's grains maintain flavor and tenderness of beef
Oct 22, 2008 |
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The availability and use of wet distiller's grains in beef finishing diets continues to increase as the ethanol industry expands, and some Texas AgriLife Research scientists are trying to determine if that will affect consumers' ...
Study shows consumers find grass-fed beef acceptable
Aug 04, 2008 |
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High feed-grain prices and the growing interest in "natural" foods have spurred both consumers and farmers to consider grass-fed beef, and a recent study done by Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences researchers may ...
