Mar 28
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is talking with Andy Holloway about the 10th Annual Texas A&M AgriLife Hemphill County Beef Conference, which will be held on April 29-30 at the Jones Pavilion in Canadian, Texas. Reputed to be one of the best standalone beef conferences in the United States, the Hemphill County Beef Conference …
Mar 27
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) member and chairman of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association (TCFA) Robby Kirkland testified before the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this week, and Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is featuring portions of Kirkland’s comments during the hearing titled American Trade Negotiation Priorities. Kirkland highlighted the benefits of …
Mar 26
Ian Wheal is founder and CEO of Breedr, which turns real-world livestock data into actionable insights, improving farmer profit and promoting sustainable meat production. Senior Farm & Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays caught up with Wheal to hear about the innovative platform. Wheal was raised on a cow calf operation in Australia. His father spent a lot …
Mar 25
Dr. Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, was invited to speak at the annual meeting of the Unión Ganadera Regional De Chihuahua in Chihuahua, Mexico last week. The cattle industry there is facing multiple threats simultaneously that has cattle producers on the defense and struggling to survive. Dr. Peel shared his observations …
Mar 24
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays talked to OSU Extension Livestock Market Economist Dr. Derrell Peel after the latest USDA Cattle of Feed Report was released on Friday afternoon, and Dr. Peel believes that the numbers reflect the tightening supply of beef cattle. It held some minor surprises with placements lowered to 82% of last year …
Mar 21
Today’s best of BeefBuzz features the second part of Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays’s conversation with senior animal protein research analyst David Weaber at Terrain about herd rebuilding, first published on March 4. Part one of the discussion can be found here. Simply due to the rising cost of doing business, Weaber feels that …
Mar 20
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is continuing his conversation with National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Chief Counsel Mary-Thomas Hart about EPA’s intent to revise the Waters of the U.S. rule and conform it to align with the intent of the Supreme Court’s Sackett v. EPA decision. To see the first part of their conversation, …
Mar 19
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Chief Counsel Mary-Thomas Hart about the latest update on the Waters of the U.S. rule. In an earlier conversation with Hays, Hart was disappointed in the Biden Administration’s EPA’s implementation of WOTUS. She said., “I think the Biden EPA acted …
Mar 18
Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis, and runs the Animal Genomics and Biotechnology Laboratory. She recently spoke about gene editing at K-State’s Cattlemen’s Day. Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is featuring comments from her conversation with K-State’s radio …
Mar 17
Dr. Alison L. Van Eenennaam is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis and runs the Animal Genomics and Biotechnology Laboratory. She recently spoke about gene editing at K-State’s Cattlemen’s Day. Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is featuring comments from her conversation with K-State’s …
