Anonymous":3gl7v25w said:
Has anyone sold cattle to them?I emailed the cattle procurer a while back and he said the packer paid market price with no premiums or discounts except for maybe carcass weight and dark cutter.Maybe a way to offset the brahman discount if it lasts.Sam Plank
We heard the CEO of Nolan Ryan Beef, Charlie Bradbury (sp), speak a couple of years ago. Nolan Ryan Beef doesn't belong to the Beefmaster Assn, as CAB and CHB belong to the Angus and Hereford Associations. It was financed and started by a group of Beefmaster breeders, including Nolan Ryan. At that time they were not paying any premiums, all the profits were being put back into the program. He said they are buying cattle that fit their specifications no matter what the breed while they try to identify lines in the Beefmaster breed that will consistently work in their program. It seems like he said they were leasing kill space in a plant one day a week to kill cattle for the Nolan Ryan Beef program. They use three steps to guarantee a tender beef, some sort of bath, mechanically tenderizing, and aging. As I understand the program, you will need to buy your breeding stock from one of the original investors to be able to sell into the program.