Better Every Day.
Within the Beef Marketing Group, when we talk about sustainability, we talk about everything we do. We see sustainability as a journey — a journey focused on measurable and continuous improvement across the three pillars of sustainability, including environment, social and economic. We are focused on getting better every day in order to be more sustainable tomorrow.
Sustainability
For the Beef Marketing Group, sustainability is more than being responsible stewards of the land and natural resources. We also take very seriously the importance of being good neighbors and active in our communities as well as our role caretakers of the cattle. Further, a sustainable cattle feedyard must also be economically viable to be sustainable. BMG has been and continues to be a leader in supporting and advancing enhancements to sustainability, including all three pillars of sustainability, in the beef supply chain. We actively participate in industry-led efforts to develop credible and realistic targets to continuously improve the sustainability of beef, and we work to benchmark and track our continuous improvement.
BMG was a founding member in the US Roundtable for Sustainable Beef. BMG has served in leadership capacities for USRSB and is taking an active role in the development of sector specific goals and targets.
In addition to being good stewards for the animals under our care, BMG members are also good stewards of the land and natural resources. Many BMG members grow feed and forage that is fed to cattle in the feedyard. They compost the manure and use it as a natural fertilizer for farm ground and also invite citizens in neighboring communities to use the high-quality, natural fertilizer on their lawns and in their gardens.
BMG will be among the first in the cattle feeding industry with a sustainability outcome tracking system – producing a metric that is important to our customers and other partners in the supply chain.
All BMG feedyards are Progressive Beef certified, and a core component of Progressive Beef is sustainability. BMG members verify compliance to environmental rules and regulations. They also document adherence to best management practices to protect land, water and natural resources, and provide employee safety training and more.