The Elite Producer Program

Partners In Better Cattle Production

It is abundantly clear that raising commodity cattle is no longer cost-effective. The future belongs to those who produce high-quality cattle raised on superior nutrition. It is also clear that all of the industry players, from cattle producers to feed yards, seed stock providers and feed suppliers, stand to benefit from the production of Age & Source Verified, high-performance cattle. That's why The Beef Connection establishes strategic partnerships with corporate members that provide industry-leading genetics/genomics, nutrition, cattle feeding, and marketing data. The Beef Connection analyzes these data and makes them available to the Elite Producer Program members.

Why Should You Join?

You will use proven technologies and practices to manage and market your cattle for higher returns.
You will have access to Beef Connection data that validate your cattle for feed performance and carcass merit. Using these data, you can make informed management decisions about genetic selection, nutrition, health, culling, and selection of superior replacement heifers.
You will be able to develop predictable, feed efficient, Age & Source Verified, carcass quality cattle that have multi-year historical data to prove it.
You can use data from The Beef Connection to establish marketing plans that take advantage of profitable opportunities as the market changes. Your historical data will also allow you to minimize your risk and maximize your profit as you take advantage of such marketing opportunities.
You can access genetic, nutritional and other information and technologies made available only to Beef Connection members through our strategic partnerships with innovative industry leaders.

The New Beef Cattle Production Model

The underlying concept for The Beef Connection's Elite Producer Program is based on applying successful, well established methods of production common to many other industries. These methods include practices such as Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Continuous Improvement. SPC is used to analyze data from various stages of the process to verify what is working well and what areas need critical changes to improve the process. Continuous Improvement involves looking for ways to make the process run more effectively and efficiently, and never accepting that "good enough" is good enough.

How Do These Methods Relate To Beef Cattle?

Consider the truck or car that you drive. It's made up of a larger number of parts, each of which is manufactured to strict specifications. If all of the parts are properly made, your car or truck performs as it should. If not, you'll have major problems and the manufacturer will have costly warranty expenses. To insure the quality of their products, the car or truck manufacturer uses SPC by gathering data throughout the various machining processes, analyzing the data, and sending corrective information to the machine's control system. These data let the operators know if the part is being made properly, or if something isn't performing correctly. For example, if the cutting tool that is shaping your trucks engine components has lost its edge, it needs to be changed. Once a part is made, it is inspected once again to make sure it meets the required quality standards. If not, the inspection data helps the production people make changes to the process to improve part quality. Likewise, when your cattle are harvested, the carcass data together with feed performance data give you a valuable picture of your animal's quality.

Just as in manufacturing, keeping track of critical cattle production data and analyzing it helps you get the best return on your investment. These data can tell you if you need to adjust your feed and supplements, modify your health protocols, alter the genetic make up of your herd or make other changes to improve the quality of your animals. It can also help you determine the best way to market your cattle.

Applying these concepts to cattle production is the heart of the Elite Producer Program. Using data to analyze performance and continuously improve the quality of the animals allows you to build better herds that will yield greater profits by commanding top of market pricing.

Please contact The Beef Connection today for more information and to request your free copy of The Elite Producer Program manual.