Beef Facts and Resources

It is often an untold story, but farm families have led conservation efforts across the United State for generations. Today's farmers are strong examples of true environmentalists.

Sustainability is not a destination. It is a continuous journey being carried out by each generation of farmers responsible for raising and supplying beef across the world.

Cattle farmers and ranchers have many tools to keep the animals in their care healthy and safe, including nutrition programs, veterinary care, facilities that ensure comfort, and good management practices, such as low-stress handling, vaccines and antibiotics, when necessary.

Everyone plays an important role in beef safety – from the cattlemen and women who continually invest in and learn from beef safety research studies to the various government entities that are responsible for enacting and overseeing food safety regulations and inspections.

The journey of raising beef is among the most complex of any food. Due in part to their changing nutritional needs throughout their lifetime, beef cattle often times will change hands and ownership up to three or four times, over the course of one and a half to three years, as they move through their various life stages.