Joe Roybal

BEEF Editor, BEEF Magazine

Joe is a native of South Dakota and a graduate of South Dakota State University with a degree in journalism. He worked as a daily newspaper reporter and photographer before doing a six-year stint as a news bureau feature writer. His livestock magazine experience includes serving as managing editor of Dairy Herd Management and editor of Feedlot Management magazines before joining BEEF in 1985. Joe assumed the editorship of BEEF in 1993 when founding editor Paul D. Andre retired.

Joe’s Recent activity

Saying goodbye, thank you and good fortune

Apr 28, 2015

Today (April 30) marks my last day with BEEF magazine. It was 30 years ago on April 8 that I walked into the old offices on Shepard Road in St. Paul for my first day of work and shook hands with a livestock publishing...

Another Earth Day, and America yawns

Apr 22, 2015

Earth Day was yesterday and the annual commemoration, which was initiated in 1970, has taken on the status of almost a holy day for some folks. Like most established observances in society these days, however, the day...