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Jul 14
NCBA’s CEO Colin Woodall Talks State of Cattle Business with Ron Hays on Ag Perspectives Podcast
On the sidelines of the Summer Cattle Industry Business Meeting being held in Denver, Oklahoma Farm Report’s Ron Hays sat down to talk about the state of Beef Industry with the longtime Chief Executive Officer of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Colin Woodall. NCBA is one of three groups that has gathered in Denver for …
Jul 12
Cattle Producers Gather in the Mile High City to Deal with Key Issues Impacting Their Livelihood
As cattle industry leaders gather this week at the Gaylord Rockies Convention Center for the Summer Cattle Industry Business Meeting, Oklahoma cattle producer Clay Burtrum said producers are focused on a handful of critical issues ranging from the threat of New World screwworm to profitability, drought and risk management. Burtrum, an Oklahoma cattleman and co-owner …
Jul 10
Poultry Companies Sued by State Offer $41.6 Million Settlement to End Decades Old Poultry Litter Litigation
The latest settlement offer in the over twenty year old Illinois River Watershed Poultry Litter lawsuit has been agreed to by all of the Poultry Companies named in the case and by the state of Oklahoma. The seven year agreement calls for a total of $41.6 million to be paid to the State of Oklahoma …
Jul 08
Consumer Group Takes Cattle Group to Task Over Brazilian Beef Imports
Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE) urges the Trump administration to reject demands for tariffs on beef imports as the USTR Section 301 Investigation panel hearing on Brazil was held earlier this week. “Imposing tariffs on lean beef imports would be irrational and self-defeating,” said CASE chairman Gerard Scimeca. “These tariffs would be nothing …
Jul 03
Superior Livestock’s Week in the Rockies Kicks off on Monday, July Sixth in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Superior Livestock’s annual “Week and the Rockies” sale opens Monday, July 6, bringing roughly 240,000 head to market for the five day event, company president Danny Jones told Ron Hays in today’s Beef Buzz. “It’s probably the timing when video marketing of spring born calves for fall delivery first got started,” Jones said, noting that …
Jul 02
Latest Ag Perspectives Podcast Looks at the Legacy of Express Ranches- Ron Hays Talks with Donnie Robertson
Our latest Ag Perspectives Podcast features Senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays talking with Donnie Robertson, vice president of Express Ranches, about the remarkable legacy of one of the nation’s top seedstock operations after the Funk family announced plans to disperse the ranch’s beef cattle operation. When discussing elite seed-stock programs in the U.S., …
Jul 01
First Cases of New World Screwworm Reported in July Push Total Numbers to 31
USDA has reported the first cases of New World Screwworm in July on Screwworm.Gov– both were sheep infestations in Crockett County, which is about 85 miles from the international border and the Rio Grande River. The County now has the most NWS cases of any county in the state- eight. The latest cases posted on …
Jun 28
USDA Secretary Rollins a Part of the Official Opening of the Sterile Fly Production Facility in Metapa, Mexico
Even as USDA announced another New World Screwworm infestation in south Texas on Saturday in Jim Hogg County, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins was in Metapa, Mexico, to officially open the new sterile fly facility. that USDA started building in coordination with the Mexican government eleven months ago. The United States Department of Agriculture invested $21 …
Jun 27
TSCRA Pleased That Mexican Sterile Fly Facility Coming OnLine- More Sterile Flies Coming to Battle New World Screwworm
Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association president Stephen Diebel released the following statement after the United States Department of Agriculture today announced the opening of the Metapa sterile fly production facility to combat the spread of New World screwworm: “The goal has always been to increase production of sterile flies, and the Metapa facility expands …
Jun 26
Sheep Infestations Push Total New World Screwworm Cases in US Since June 3rd to 25
More cases of he New World Screwworm have been added to the Screwworm.Gov website– the latest cases are all sheep in south Texas just north of the US-Mexican border. Four of the cases reported were found in Crockett County (County seat is Ozona) while one case reported was in Edwards County (County seat is Rocksprings). …
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