Each year the Beef Improvement Federation Symposium annual meeting is held in different parts of the country, allowing beef producers to meet and discuss ways to improve their product. This year the meeting is being held in Knoxville. Troy Rowan with the University of Tennessee discusses the importance of this meeting, and how improving cattle genetics has become one of the main topics at the meeting.

As farmers work to finish planting this year's crops, we have a conversation with Eric Snodgrass, the Senior Science Fellow for Nutrien Ag Solutions about the volatile Spring weather and his predictions for the Summer.

Nutrien Ag Solutions

We visit with Rob Holland, Director of the Center for Profitable Agriculture, to discuss the impact of value-added agriculture to Tennessee's ag economy.

The University of Tennessee College of Veterinarian Medicine has announced that former graduate and Sevier County native Dr. Paul Plummer has been selected as the new Dean of the college.

UTIA press release

Tennessee's State Veterinarian Dr. Samantha Beaty discusses the recent outbreaks of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in dairy cattle in five states and the movement restrictions of cattle coming into Tennessee.

Order of the State Veterinarian

Clay County Native, Ella McLerran, is the 2024 AFBF Collegiate Discussion Meet winner. She won the competition at the AFBF Fusion Conference in Omaha, Nebraska.

Our conversation with Andy Holt, Assistant Commissioner with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, as he just returned with others from an international trade mission to India on behalf of the Tennessee forest products industry.

On this episode of Root of the Matter Thomas Capps had a conversation with now retired Tennessee Department of Agriculture livestock grader Mack Moss. Moss had an over 35 year career with TDA grading cattle all across the state. Moss details what it's meant to him to have this position for all of these years, and why he believes the work he and his team did is so important.

On this episode of Root of The Matter Thomas Capps spoke with Tennessee Cattlemen's Association President Dustin Pearson on the latest issues facing the beef cattle industry. A stocker operator in Washington County, Pearson discusses first hand how farmland loss is one of the biggest issues impacting producers across the state, and how high input costs remain an issue too.

We recently caught up with Tennessee Cattlemen's Executive Vice President Charles Hord at the TCA Annual Meeting. Thomas Capps spoke with him about why it's important for beef producers to meet, and about the issues facing the cattle industry.