Sep 20
Earlier this year, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays talked with Bob Weaber of Kansas State University about being intentional with heterosis. While crossbreeding has been around for quite a while, Weaber said heterosis capitalizes on having a breeding plan and what an operation wants to achieve with genetics. When structuring breeding systems to …
Sep 19
Yesterday, September 18, CattleFax put on a Trends+ Cow-Calf webinar to discuss feedstuff markets and the cattle market outlook for the remainder of 2024 and early 2025. Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is featuring some of the comments from CattleFax Market Analyst Matt McQuagge on commercial cow slaughter, bred cow values, and a …
Sep 18
OSU Grad Student Alexis Main is a California transplant- having come from Modesto, California to finish her undergraduate degree in Animal Sciences at Oklahoma State- and then staying to work on a PHD in Stillwater as well. She’s actually involved in a program has allowed her to go straight to work on a doctorate and …
Sep 17
In this edition of the Beef Buzz, we are featuring comments from Kansas State’s Dr. Glynn Tonsor, who talked at the start of this week with Shelby Varner on the K-State Radio Network. Click on the listen bar above to listen to Dr. Tonsor explain the feedlot closeouts as well as recap domestic beef demand …
Sep 16
The livestock industry flooded the digital inbox of USDA with comments about the USDA’s Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets proposed rule in recent days- the comment period ended on September 11, 2024. In this edition of the Beef Buzz- we talk with Tanner Beymer, Executive Director of Government Affairs at the National Cattlemen’s Beef …
Sep 13
Featured today in this Beef Buzz is the President Elect of the Kansas Livestock Association Troy Sander. Sander is the chief operations manager for Heritage Beef, which operates feedyards in Haskell and Labette counties. Sander is based in Oklahoma City. His interest in the cattle feeding industry began early in life as he worked alongside …
Sep 12
On this edition of the Beef Buzz, Oklahoma Farm Report’s Ron Hays features an interview that KC Sheperd had this summer with Cheyenne Sparks about her role to be a CattleCon Influencer for the 2025 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show. Former Oklahoma Cattlewoman President and current National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s 2025 CattleCon influencer …
Sep 11
After a long period of ‘cheap money” that a of farmers and ranchers have gotten used to- the recent increases in borrowing costs have added to the list of inputs that have risen over the last couple of years. That’s the word from Don Close, Chief Research & Analytics Officer for Terrain. Close talked about …
Sep 10
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays visits Kansas Rancher Jan Lyons in this second in a two-part series. You can go and read and listen to Part One by clicking here. During her time in service as Chairman of the Cattleman’s Beef Board and National Cattleman’s Beef Association President, she represented the industry to …
Sep 09
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays visits Kansas Rancher Jan Lyons in this first of a two-part series. Watch for part two to be posted tomorrow. Lyons has held many leadership positions in the cattle industry including 1994 Kansas Livestock Association President, 1996 Cattleman’s Beef Board Chair, and 2004 National Cattleman’s Beef Association President. …
