Jan 03
With Cattlemen’s Congress kicking off tomorrow, the Director of International Programs & Director of Operations, Erin Dorsey, has been hard at work putting it all together. Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays caught up with her to talk about how she has helped grow the event beyond the borders of the United States. Dorsey …
Jan 02
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is back talking about the 2025 Cattlemen’s Congress in Oklahoma City with the Executive Vice President of the show, Bray Haven. The Cattlemen’s Congress began as a replacement show when COVID restrictions caused the cancellation of the National Western Stock Show in 2021. It has quickly become a cornerstone of the …
Dec 31
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with National Cattlemen’s Association executive director of government affairs, Kent Bacus, about the roller coaster surrounding the Corporate Transparency Act. In early December, the Corporate Transparency Act was halted to determine its constitutionality, then on December 23, it was reinstated with its original January 1, 2025, …
Dec 30
On today’s Beef Buzz, Oklahoma Farm Report’s Ron Hays features comments from a recent conversation that Farm Director KC Sheperd had with Luke Bowman, Director of SimGenetic Development with the American Simmental Association to talk SimGenetics at Cattlemen’s Congress. Eight hundred fifteen cattle are entered at Cattlemen’s Congress in Oklahoma City with either purebred or …
Dec 27
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays continues his conversation with Dakota Moss, Livestock Risk Services President, the first part of which was posted yesterday. Today, they are discussing the value of LRP as a risk management tool. Moss’s consistent advice to producers asking whether it is the right time to lock in LRP is …
Dec 26
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays caught up with Dakota Moss, Livestock Risk Services President, to discuss locking in LRP with this year’s near-record high cattle prices. “Going into October, we were in a pretty horrific drought, then we were pretty blessed to have some good, timely rains, in the first of November that …
Dec 24
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays talked to OSU Extension Livestock Market Economist Dr. Derrell Peel about market expectations for 2025. When discussing the 2025 Cattle Inventory Report to be released in the latter part of January, Dr. Peel expects beef replacement heifers to be up only marginally because heifer slaughter rates and heifer-on-feed …
Dec 23
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 According to Dr. Peel, November placements were down 3.7%, marketings were down 1.4%, which equates to the total cattle on feed number being fractionally …
Dec 20
Ron Hays is talking again with Superior Livestock President Danny Jones, who says that 2024 has been a tremendous year for both Superior and for the cattle industry. This is the second in a two-part conversation with Jones. Yesterday, he was discussing the success Superior Livestock has seen in 2024. Today, he anticipates another great year in …
Dec 19
Ron Hays is talking with Superior Livestock President Danny Jones, who says that 2024 has been a tremendous year for both Superior and for the cattle industry. “We’ve had near record volumes of people to use us and trust us to continue marketing their cattle,” Jones said. “We certainly appreciate that. We are humbled by …
