Apr 20
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays is featuring comments from the Chief Legal Strategist for the National Pork Producers Council, Michael Formica, about California’s Proposition 12 and its relation to all of the livestock industry. Proposition 12 aims to require veal calves, breeding pigs, and egg-laying hens to be housed in systems that comply …
Apr 19
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is featuring comments from Farm Director KC Sheperd’s visit with the Senior Director of Government Affairs at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Tanner Beymer talking about Livestock Mandatory Reporting and more. “Unfortunately, we are in much of the same place we have been for the last three years, …
Apr 18
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is visiting with the managing director of Meat and Livestock Australia, Jason Strong. “When we look at sustainability issues, it is very much a developed world issue, and where we have choices, there is a lot of interest, a lot of discussion, about what those choices should be,” …
Apr 17
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is visiting with State Climatologist Gary McManus about La Nina and El Niño as the state of Oklahoma continues to suffer from detrimental drought conditions. While La Niña has ended in the Pacific Ocean, McManus said we are still living under its impacts. “We have had what is called …
Apr 14
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is visiting with the executive vice president of the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association, Michael Kelsey, about the preliminary injunction granted to over half of the states in the U.S. regarding the 2023 Waters of the U.S. Rule from taking effect. Earlier this week, The U.S. District Court for the …
Apr 13
Forty percent of Oklahoma is out of the drought zone, while another seven to eight percent are in the abnormally dry range. Over half of the state is still suffering from significant drought. Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is featuring comments from the vice president of operations at Farm Data Services, Clay Burtrum, …
Apr 12
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays is featuring comments from Rabobank’s senior beef and cattle market research analyst, Lance Zimmerman of Rabobank, about building back the cowherd and market prices. “We had record-high liquidation this past year,” Zimmerman said. “We have had an ample number of heifers get shipped off to feed yards instead …
Apr 11
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is featuring comments from Kansas State University Extension Livestock Market Economist, Dr. Glynn Tonsor, talking about why cash cattle prices have been moving stronger over the last couple of months. One of the contributing factors, Tonsor said, is the pullback on corn, but the biggest driver of those …
Apr 10
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is visiting with the vice president of economic analysis at the United States Meat Export Federation, Erin Borror, about the relationship between U.S. beef exports and food security. “It takes natural resources to produce red meat, especially on the beef side,” Borror said. “Many of the growing populations …
Apr 07
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is featuring comments from the associate professor in the K-State College of Veterinary Medicine and certified veterinary pharmacologist, Brian Lubbers. Lubbers discusses the upcoming June 11th FDA regulation changes for antimicrobials. On June 11, Lubbers said the FDA is moving the remaining over-the-counter antimicrobial human medically important medical …
