Ron Hays, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster is back with John Butler, CEO of the Beef Marketing Group, as he talks about the Lookup Program, by Elanco and how the data it provides can help challenge management on an operation to make improvements.

Ron Hays, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster visits with John Butler, CEO of the Beef Marketing Group which focuses on continuously improving sustainability metrics in the groups 16 different feedlots located in Kansas and Nebraska.

Ron Hays, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, talks about the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) numbers of last week for the beef industry and the Daily Livestock Report by Len Stiner.

Ron Hays, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, features Colin Woodall, Chief Executive Officer of the National Cattlemens Beef Association. Woodall talks about sustainability in an industry he believes has always been and will continue to be sustainable.

Recently, Oklahoma Farm Reports Ron Hays talked with Dakota Moss on Livestock Risk Protection Programs and how they can benefit cattle producers. Dakota Moss discusses the opportunity for cattle producers to buy into risk management.

As we enter May, the latest national crop progress report shows over 50% of pasture and range conditions are rated poor to very poor. Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays talks about how these conditions are impacting cattle producers with Oklahoma State Universitys Extension Specialist for Livestock Marketing, Derrell Peel.

Farm broadcasters, including Farm Director KC Sheperd had the chance to listen to various speakers such as Senator John Thune of South Dakota during The National Association of Broadcasters Washington Watch.

Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays is back with Erin Borror, Economist with the U.S. Meat Export Federation, talking about beef export markets. “On variety meats, a big part of the constraint there has just been labor availability in our plants,” Borror said.

Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays visits with Erin Borror, the Vice President for Economic Analysis at the U.S. Meat Export Federation. Hays and Borror talk about the latest March Beef Export numbers just out from the USDA, compiled by the USMEF. “Beef remained really impressive, so it was a new value record,” Borror said.

Back with Ethan Lane, Vice President for Government Affairs for the National Cattlemens Beef Association and head of the NCBAs Washington D.C. Office. Farm Director, KC Sheperd visited with Lane earlier this week at the National Association of Broadcasters annual Washington Watch.