Bison

The USDA recently awarded contracts to purchase up to eight million radio frequency identification ear tags. USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service says the RFID tags will help increase overall animal disease traceability in cattle and bison. The ...

The National Bison Association wants the Department of Agriculture to immediately develop new labeling policies to stop water buffalo products sold in the U.S. from being labeled only as "buffalo."  The association launched an online petition last week seeking the measures from the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service and the Food and Drug Administration.  The pet...

Bison reigns indisputably as the largest land mammal in North America. "The ones that we take to market for meat, a 2-year-old bull is about the same size as a two year old steer," said Dave Carter with the National Bison Association.  He added that Bison raised for meat are similar in size to beef cattle, with the males going in at 12-hundred pounds and the females at 1-thousand pounds.

When the USDA started tracking bison prices in June in 2004, carcasses were about $1.40 per pound, Dave Carter, National Bison Association Executive-Director says the most recent report was $4.80 per pound.   That’s why Carter said they’ve been having their most profitable year ever and the people who eat the meat are likely to keep that going.   “As the...

One area of livestock that is going through a revolution is bison where prices have jumped from $1.60 per pound in 2004 to $4.65 per pound last October.   National Bison Association Executive Director Dave Carter said the downside of demand is the crunch on their supply.  ...

The National Bison Association last week announced U.S. bison sales have topped $340 million at the retail and foodservice level.  However, the association said continued growth is primarily constrained by the limited supply of market-ready animals.  Th...

President Obama recently signed the “National Bison Legacy Act,” which adopts the North American Bison as the National Mammal. In a blog post, the Interior Department said “the bison joins the bald eagle as an official symbol of our country.”   The Hagstrom...