Jul 17
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is featuring comments from Farm Director KC Shepherd’s interview with Veterinarian Dr. Troy Shelby about the impacts of heat on cattle. Shelby performs veterinary services for the Oklahoma National Stockyards each week and at the Southern Oklahoma Livestock Market out of Ada. Shelby is a southcentral Oklahoma Cattle …
Jul 14
As drought continues to play a big role in factors impacting the beef cattle sector in many states, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is back talking with Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, Dr. Derrell Peel, about drought conditions in the top beef cattle states. While Texas and Oklahoma’s drought conditions are …
Jul 13
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, Dr. Derrell Peel, about beef demand and more. Beef demand looks resilient, Peel said, as he has been closely watching for signs of weakness or trading down over many months. “If you look at the highest valued middle meats, …
Jul 12
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is back speaking with Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, Dr. Derrell Peel, about the first half of the year from a beef cattle market perspective. “The first half of year really picked up the transition from sort of what we had last year that we knew …
Jul 11
At the recent Cattlemen’s Conference, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, talked with Dr. Frank Mitloehner of the University of California, Davis, about the concept of upcycling. About 70 percent of all agricultural land in the United States is marginal land, Mitloehner said, which is land where crops cannot be grown. “What grows there …
Jul 10
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with the Cargill Beef Sustainability Lead, Nick Hardcastle, about consumers’ desire for a high-quality beef product. “It has pretty much shown over the past few years, we have increased grade year-over-year through Covid, and demand has flourished, in all honesty,” Hardcastle said. Consumers have a taste …
Jul 07
In today’s “best of” Beef Buzz edition, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is featuring comments from the Executive Director of Government Affairs at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Allison Rivera. While in Washington, D.C., Farm Director KC Sheperd had the chance to visit with Rivera about the vaccine bank and more. As summer …
Jul 06
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with Dr. Blake Bloomberg about his selection process at livestock shows he judges and about the evolution of genetics in the cattle industry. Bloomberg is one of the premier livestock judging coaches in America. He coached at Oklahoma State University and Texas A&M University before returning …
Jul 05
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is visiting with Kansas State University Extension Livestock Market Economist Dr. Glynn Tonsor, about the latest information from the meat demand monitor he oversees at Kansas State. The monitor works with both the beef and pork checkoffs in tracking retail and food service meat demand on a monthly …
Jul 03
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with Bob Weaber, beef extension specialist at Kansas State University, about how EPD values can help cattle producers make breeding decisions. As a tool, Weaber said selection indexes provide a useful way for commercial and seed stock producers to make aggregate selection decisions. “The goal of …
