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Libbi Loos exhibits that Grand Champion Market Beef Animal at the Sherman County Fair. Her mom and dad say congratulations on a job well done, Libbi.

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We may be a little late getting to the dance, but the music is playing, and our moves are still quite good.

While attending the Cattle Industry Summer Conference last week in Denver, Colo., I heard plenty of buzz in the hall, but the biggest positive buzz was about the numbers.

The numbers to which I refer come from Dr. Jude Capper of Washington State University, who published figures that mean something in terms of what animal agriculture has been calling improved efficiency.

She compared the carbon dioxide emissions from beef production in 1977 to those in 2007, and guess what? The industry emits 18% less carbon per unit of beef produced now than 30 years ago!

Read more / Watch our video with Dr. Jude Capper

Always together for American agriculture,

Trent Loos

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