American families, farmers, workers, and small businesses could soon see a massive surge in economic growth, wage gains, and higher incomes if the Big Beautiful Bill eventually becomes the law of the land. President Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, and now heads to the Senate for consideration. Senior Farm …
Category: Top Beef Buzz
May 22
Rabobank’s Lance Zimmerman Sees Opportunities in U.S. Beef Herd Rebuilding
Rabobank’s senior beef analyst, Lance Zimmerman, talked in depth with Oklahoma Farm Report’s Ron Hays about the slow progression of rebuilding the U.S.’s mama cow herd. Yesterday, the two men discussed Rabobank’s recently released BBQ Index. Zimmerman sees two remaining challenges to rebuilding, the biggest being a lower-than-normal quality of spring forage year over year, so …
May 21
Rabobank’s BBQ Index: A Deep Dive into Summer Grilling Costs
Rabobank, a premier global food and agribusiness bank founded 125 years ago and a leading financier of the energy transition, released the annual BBQ Index ahead of grilling season. The basic premise of the BBQ Index is to determine the cost of a BBQ for ten people ahead of the summer grilling season. Rabobank’s senior beef analyst, …
May 20
Addressing Health Concerns: NCBA’s Advocacy for Practical Dietary Guidelines
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is featuring comments from a recent conversation between NCBA Senior Director of Governmental Affairs, Sigrid Johannes, and Farm Reporter Maci Carter. Johannes’s policy portfolio includes lab-grown meat, cattle health and welfare, food safety, and animal disease traceability. This means that she interacts with the FDA frequently, which is …
May 19
How AI is Transforming Decision-Making in Cattle Production
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with Donnell Brown, a past president of the National FFA Organization and rancher at the R.A. Brown Ranch out of Throckmorton, Texas. The two men discussed technological advancements aiding the cattle industry today. “It doesn’t matter what industry we are in, there is a huge amount …
May 16
Governor and Oklahoma Legislature Approve Funding for OSU Vet Hospital Project
Oklahoma State University has been asking state lawmakers for a $295 million appropriation to help build a new veterinary teaching hospital to replace the 40-year-old facility currently being used, which was one concern that caused the College of Veterinary Medicine to be placed on probation this past fall. The good news on that is that …
May 15
NCBA CEO Believes New World Screwworms will Cross Into the U.S. by Late Summer
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays has checked in with National Cattlemen’s Beef Association CEO Colin Woodall for a New World Screwworm update after the May 11th closure of the US-Mexican border to Mexican cattle entering the US because of concerns about the spread of New World Screwworms further into Mexico. The closure announced …
May 14
The Rise of Certified Angus Beef Prime: CAB’s John Stika
At the 2025 Hemphill County Beef Conference, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, visited with the President of Certified Angus Beef (CAB), John Stika, about the rise of CAB Prime. Yesterday’s BeefBuzz with Stika centered upon the importance of value and taste to consumers. In beef grading over the past 20 years, CAB Prime has been …
May 13
CAB’s John Stika Explains the Importance of Value and Taste in Today’s Beef Market
At the 2025 Hemphill County Beef Conference, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, visited with the President of Certified Angus Beef, John Stika, about the importance of value and taste to consumers today. According to Stika, the cattle business is all about how to satisfy consumers. “Customers deserve to be satisfied because we are …
May 12
NCBA’s Ethan Lane on the Import Suspension of Mexican Cattle
On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the suspension of live cattle, horse, and bison imports through U.S. ports of entry along the southern border due to the continued and rapid northward spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico. Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, spoke with Senior Vice President of …
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