Are you looking for a balanced snack the whole family will love? It will also count as a fun, afternoon activity to do at home with the kids. It is simple, all you will need is beef jerky and then lay out a few pantry staples, like dried fruit, seeds and nuts and within minutes everyone can create their own protein filled snack! Happy Mixing!

Beefshi is an innovative new sushi-style concept that features convenient beef products like pastrami, roast beef, summer sausage, hot dogs, corned beef and bologna prepared in rolls with rice and vegetables. Beefshi recipes taste as good as they look and can be enjoyed individually as an appetizer or grouped together as a full meal. This is perfect for those youth AND adults that refuse to try sushi!

Beef cattle eat a lot of grass for a balanced diet. This worksheet figures up just how many acres some cattle eat off of.

Have family around the house. How do you know which things are yours? Most likely you put your name somewhere on these items. That’s the mark you put on them so you know which item belongs to you. Cattle producers do the same thing to mark their cattle, but instead of putting their name on cattle, they put a brand. A brand is usually placed on the shoulder or hip of the cattle. A brand is normally one or two letters or symbols arranged in a specific way. Each cattle producer has his or her own brand that is different from everyone else’s. They put this brand on cattle so they know which cattle belong to which producer.

Look up sample brands online. Have your family choose from letters, numbers, or symbols (such as arrows going in any direction, straight bars, squiggly lines, hearts, etc.) to create their own brands.

Have family make simple origami cow heads. Explain to students that cattle ranchers often use ear tags to identify specific animals. Depending on their system they’ll use a combination of letters and numbers. Show students a picture of an ear tag online, and have students design one out of paper to attach to their origami cow head.