In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays continues his conversation with Dr. Richard Watson, senior soil health and grazing specialist with American Farmland Trust. In Part One yesterday, Watson outlined the goals of
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Dr. Richard Watson, Senior Soil Health and Grazing Specialist with American Farmland Trust, about a new $42 million initiative designed to help beef producers impr
In today’s Beef Buzz, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays features comments from Kansas State University agricultural economist Glynn Tonsor about the June Meat Demand Monitor, a monthly survey funded by the beef and pork check
In today's Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Michael Kelsey, Executive Vice President of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, who says excitement is building as OCA prepares for its 2026 Annual Convention an
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays features comments from Dr. Marshall Streeter, Associate Director of Technical Service - Cattle at Merck Animal Health. He says the beef industry is approaching a point where c
Ron Hays Beef Buzzes with Superior Livestock's Danny Jones about their annual Week in the Rockies sale starting July 6h Superior Livestock’s annual “Week and the Rockies” sale opens Monday, July 6, bringing roughly 240,000 head to market fo
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Donnie Robertson, Vice President of Express Ranches, about the next phase of the Express Ranches dispersal. In Part 1, Robertson discussed the family’s
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Donnie Robertson, Vice President of Express Ranch, who continues the conversation from part one, which aired yesterday, about the decision by the Funk family
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Donnie Robertson, vice president of Express Ranches, about the remarkable legacy of one of the nation’s top seedstock operations after the Funk family
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays features comments from two leading beef cattle economists, Dr. Derrell Peel and Dr. David Anderson, about the economic unknowns surrounding
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Ethan Lane, who says while the Senate Agriculture Committee’s newly released farm bill framework includes several positive provisions for cattle producers, major l
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Tyler Cozzins, director of the Livestock Market Information Center, who discusses what the latest cattle on feed report reveals about feedlot inventories, dressed
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Michael Kelsey, Executive Vice President of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, about the growing threat of New World Screwworm as confirmed cases continue movin
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays features comments from Dr. Lora Bledsoe, Ag Resiliency Director with the Office of Health Security at the Department of Homeland Security, who says cartel-linked cattle
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Dr. Derrell Peel, who says heavier cattle and bigger carcass weights are creating both opportunities and concerns across the beef industry.More Days on Feed
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Dr. Derrell Peel, livestock market economist at Oklahoma State University, about the June 2026 USDA Cattle on Feed report and what it says about tightening cattle
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Michael Kelsey, who says Oklahoma cattle producers were encouraged by the results of the state’s primary election, especially the overwhelming defeat of State Ques
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with John Hutcheson, with Merck Animal Health, who discusses a newly available product designed to help cattle producers combat the threat of New World Screwworm. The p
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays features comments from Dr. Derrell Peel, who shares his perspective on ongoing drought conditions, the market impact of New World screwworm, and what the continued U.S.–Mexico
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays features comments from Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Rear Admiral Michael Schmoyer about concerns over the rapid northward spread of the New World scr
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Cassie Fish of the Beef Read, who says while the market has largely shrugged off concerns about the New World screwworm, an unexpected driver may be helping
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Danny Jones of Superior Livestock about the strong cattle market, summer video sales, and the outlook for the beef industry as 2026 moves into its second hal
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays features comments from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who provided an update on the federal response to the New World Screwworm threat, highlighting progr
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays features comments from Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association President Steven Diebel and USDA Chief Scientist Scott Hutchins, who offered reassurance and ins
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Joe Barbour of the Livestock Marketing Association, who says Oklahoma has been working behind the scenes for more than a year to prepare for the possibility of New
