Sep 26
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is back talking with Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist Dr. Derrell Peel, about more on the latest USDA Cattle on Feed report, released September 22, 2023. The on-feed numbers in the report came in at two percent below a year ago. Placements were down five percent, …
Sep 25
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist Dr. Derrell Peel, about the latest USDA Cattle on Feed report, released September 22, 2023. “No big surprises in this report,” Rodenberger said. “We had marketings in the month of August down 6 percent, 94 percent of last …
Sep 22
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is featuring comments from Associate Farm Editor Reagan Calk’s visit with the Executive Vice President of the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association, Michael Kelsey. Kelsey gives an update on the latest work in Washington D.C. during the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce Fly-In, and more. Kelsey said that one of …
Sep 21
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with New Mexico cattle producer, Will Sowers, about his experience with Performance Beef, a cattle management software that simplifies feeding, performance, and data recording. Sowers and his family have a ranch in northeastern New Mexico near Clayton. In the middle of a drought about a decade …
Sep 20
Farm Director, KC Sheperd, had the chance to visit with with the Director of SimGenetic Development at the American Simmental Association, Luke Bowman, about highlights from the American Simental Association’s Fall Focus 2023 held in Denver, Colorado, at the end of August. Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster is featuring comments from Bowman talking about Bovine Congestive …
Sep 19
Editor’s Note- Oklahoma Farm Report’s Ron Hays was one of three judges at the 2023 State Fair of Oklahoma DairyMAX Cow to Cone Ice Cream Contest- and he talked with fellow judge and dairy producer Angie Meyer about her involvement in checkoff efforts for both the beef and dairy industries. Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, …
Sep 18
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with Zoetis Cattle Genetics Specialist, Kevin Milliner, about beef genetics. Milliner has been working with beef genetics for 19 years and says genetic testing passed the experimental stage many years ago and is now a proven technology. Genetic testing, he added, is a tool to be …
Sep 15
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President-Elect, Mark Eisele, about his cattle operation and his plans going forward. Eisele is expected to become the next president of NCBA in early 2024. He will take on the role that is currently held by Todd Wilkinson. “I am a …
Sep 14
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with the president and CEO of the United States Meat Export Federation, Dan Halstrom, about the USMEF Trade Mission in Asia. “The Asian markets, Japan and Korea in particular, are our bread and butter on the beef side,” Halstrom said. “(They were our) first and third largest …
Sep 13
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is featuring comments from Farm Director, KC Sheperd’s visit with Vice President of Operations at Farm Data Services and Oklahoma cattle producer Clay Burtrum. Butrum talks about the “ins and outs” of Livestock Risk Protection. Livestock risk protection, Burtrum said, was created about 25 years ago. LRP is a risk …
