Most Beef from Small Farms and CDC Invests in H5N1 Protection
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**USDA data shows while there are a large number of cow-calf farms that raise beef, most are relatively small.
Data from the 2022 Census of Agriculture indicates 55% of America’s farms with beef cattle had fewer than 20 beef cows, while less than 1% had 1,000 or more.
Farms with fewer than 20 beef cows held 9% of the national inventory, and those with 1,000 cows or more held 10%.
**The Centers for Disease Control plans to spend up to $10 million to curb farmworker bird flu infections, including $5 million on flu vaccines.
The CDC will allocate $5 million for organizations like the
National Center for Farmworker Health to educate and train workers on protecting themselves from bird flu and another $5 million to provide seasonal flu shots to farm workers.
**In the upcoming decade, fast prep time, easy-to-prepare, single-serving packaging, and other time savers will be priorities for Gen Z and younger Millennials who buy fresh chicken, according to research from the 2024 Chicken Marketing Summit.
More than two-thirds, or 71% of consumers say they now spend more than 30 minutes preparing a typical dinner.
Gen Z spends the most time preparing dinner, with almost a third spending an hour or more on the evening meal.
