May 04
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is featuring comments from Associate Farm Editor, Reagan Calk’s visit with the Chief Council at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Mary-Thomas Hart. In today’s Beef Buzz, Hart talks about the Waters of the U.S. rule. “We have had a couple of different court opinions across the country that …
May 03
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is back speaking with Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, Dr. Derrell Peel, about beef demand and packing capacity going forward. Since before the pandemic, Peel said he has been watching beef demand closely. “We have been concerned about the potential for weakness there, and it has …
May 02
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is speaking with Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, Derrell Peel, about profitability outlook and many other factors in this year’s cattle cycle. “Prices obviously are going up, and they are really strong for feeder cattle,” Peel said. “We set new records for fed cattle early in …
May 01
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is visiting with the director of sales and feed additives at Central Life Sciences, Paul Kropp, about Altosid® IGR fly control. “We consider it the gold standard of feed-through fly control,” Kropp said. “There are a lot of different options that we have out there for trying to …
Apr 28
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is featuring part two of comments from the Vice President of Government Affairs at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Ethan Lane. While in Washington, D.C., Farm Director KC Sheperd had the chance to visit with Lane about NCBA’s experience working with the Biden Administration. “It is a good …
Apr 27
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is featuring comments from the Vice President of Government Affairs at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Ethan Lane. While in Washington, D.C., Farm Director KC Sheperd had the chance to visit with Lane about priorities for cattle producers in the 2023 farm bill. Lane first talked about how …
Apr 26
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with Jarold Callahan about the upcoming Grass Time Sale at Express Ranches coming up at noon on April 28, 2023, at the ranch in Yukon, Okla. “We are excited about how good the cattle business is,” Callahan said. “I think we are going to have three …
Apr 25
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. “In the last farm bill, we created this three-legged …
Apr 24
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is speaking with Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, Derrell Peel, about the latest Cattle on Feed report issued by the USDA on April 21, 2023. “This April Cattle on Feed report showed placements in March at 99 percent of last year, marketings in March were also …
Apr 21
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is visiting with Mike Deering of the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association about the rumors about the cattle industry using mRNA technology. Deering clears up misinformation going around on social media about livestock industries using mRNA vaccines as a way to give the meat-eating population messenger RNA- or mRNA-based COVID-19 …
