Progressive Cattle Podcast

The Progressive Cattle podcast editors deliver their third and final podcast from the NCBA Cattle Industry Convention in Houston. In this episode, Randy Blach, CEO of CattleFax discusses the impact of beef quality on consumer demand, packer dynamics, market transparency, and some of the leverage beef producers are going to have in the cattle markets. John Stika, president of Certified Angus Beef,...

The Progressive Cattle podcast editors deliver their second of three podcasts from the NCBA Cattle Industry Convention in Houston. In this episode, Rick Kuhn, owner of Thunder View Farms in Grahamsville, New York, talks about practices that earned an Environmental Stewardship Award honor, and the positives of the farm’s proximity to New York City. Ron Scott, Purina Animal Nutrition’s director of b...

David, Paul and Carrie report their first of three podcasts from the NCBA Cattle Industry Convention in Houston. Interviews are with Travis Arp of the U.S. Meat Export Federation, Shaye Koester of the Casual Cattle Conversations podcast, Samantha Augustine with Northeast Beef Promotions Initiative, and Cameron Mulroney, executive vice president of Idaho Cattle Association.

Joining David, Cassidy and Paul on this episode is Lee Jones, an associate professor of beef cattle production medicine with the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He discusses everything from discovering problematic patterns in calving season to balancing modified live and killed vaccines in the cowherd. Also, the Progressive Cattle podcast hosts share their thoughts on Presi...

Cassidy, Paul and David visit with University of Missouri assistant extension professor Jordan Thomas on the management variabilities that producers can prepare for in a given year. Whether it be for calving, forage or marketing, cattle producers can sometimes be their own worst enemies in managing for profit. Thomas applies system thinking that helps minimize risk. The Progressive Cattle podcast...

David, Cassidy, Paul and Carrie discuss the end of 2021; and David chats with Oklahoma State's Derrell Peel about supply issues and inflation; Hector Menendez of South Dakota State introduces new model system thinking for event challenges such as drought. Cassidy shares the journey to adopting their family's first child.

In today’s large world of cattle supplements, there’s one product that is disrupting the supplement in the favor of the rancher. Riomax is a family business that’s on a mission. That mission is to drive profitability in the ranching business. To drive cattle performance to its peak. To help ranchers reduce their inputs. But, Riomax is expensive right? That depends on how you look at it. One ranche...

David, Paul and Carrie visit with Troy Marshall, director of commercial relations for the American Angus Association, about the Genetic Merit Scorecard and its use for predicting the performance on a pen of calves, and how the scorecard adds value with higher participation among producers participating.   The hosts also discuss growing concerns about the U.S. supply chain for production and manufa...

Join Paul, David and Carrie as they attend the 2021 Red Angus Association convention in Boise, Idaho; and engage in discussions with RAAA CEO Tom Brink about trends within the breed; Ryan Boldt discusses data use in the association for breed improvement; and marketing specialists Katie Martin and Rachel Oliver share their presentation on bull sale data gathered at Red Angus livestock sales over a...

David, Cassidy and Carrie preview the September issue of Progressive Cattle in the final podcast from NCBA convention in Nashville. In this episode Steve and Joy Wooten of the Beatty Canyon Ranch share their methods that earned the 2021 Environmental Stewardship Award for soil and water conservation at their Colorado ranch. Dustin Aherin of Rabo AgriFinance drops by to provide inside on the indust...

CattleFax CEO Randy Blach stops by to is it with Progressive Cattle Editors in the second of three podcasts from the NCBA convention in Nashville. Randy shares how leverage is looking to change toward the cow-calf producer as the supply chain sees lower cow and cattle numbers, and a look at how more packing facilities and shackle space is on the horizon. Mitch Blanding of Zoetis and Ted Perry of P...

The Progressive Cattle team hits the road at NCBA in Nashville visiting presenters of Cattlemen’s College. Emily Solis of Animal Agriculture Alliance explains preparing for animal activists hitting your ranch; Jessica Gilreath of Texas A&M University shares research of sustainable practices directly beneficial to cow-calf production; Jason Sawyer of King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management di...

Cassidy and David visit with Bob Milligan, a senior consultant with Dairy Strategies LLC, who shares his insight on working with cattle ranchers and those in ag related to business management. Also get to know Kate James, Progressive Cattle ’s summer intern, and what goes into her work with the publication.

Paul, Cassidy and David spend some time talking on market dynamics with Tanner Beymer, NCBA’s director of government affairs and market regulatory policy. Just how far has NCBA membership moved toward price discovery reform in recent years?

Listen in as David, Cassidy and Paul talk about the magic of grazing with the executive director for the Texas Grazing Land Coalition, Jenny Pluhar. Do you know what grows on your ranch? Should you really take half, leave half? And, do you really need 16-plus pastures to do rotational grazing effectively? All of these things and more are discussed in this episode. 

Paul, Cassidy and David put their taste buds and palate for real beef to the test with a blind taste test of Burger King’s traditional Whopper and the fake meat in the Impossible Whopper.

In this episode, Colorado-based chief meteorologist and drought planning consultant Brian Bledsoe shares his weather forecast for the coming months, as well as the importance of having a drought plan. He also lists a few things to include in the drought planning process – one being forage insurance.

On this episode of the Progressive Cattle podcast, Frank Mitloehner, professor of animal science and air quality specialist at the University of California, Davis, discusses beef’s roll in climate change. What battles should beef producers fight? Is climate change real? And, is biodiversity the next “Achilles’ heel” in animal agriculture? You won’t want to miss it.

Joining us on this episode of the Progressive Cattle podcast is Ranch House Designs’ founder Rachel Cutrer. She shares social media tips, how much you should include in your marketing budget and ways she has seen seedstock producers adjust during the pandemic. And, did Paul really say he takes oxytetracycline (OTC)? Yes, yes he did. This episode's sponsor is King Ranch® Institute for Ranch Managem...

Join David, Cassidy and Paul as they look back at 10 years of Progressive Cattle and what was happening in the beef industry when the magazine got its start. You’ll also hear special guest Elliott Dennis, a livestock economist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, wrap up this year’s cattle markets and what he forecasts for the first quarter of 2021.

David and Cassidy chat with our own Irons in the Fire columnist and podcast contributor, Paul Marchant, about his newly published book, “Musics of a Would-be Renaissance Cowboy.” The book is a collection of Paul’s columns for Progressive Cattle and its sister magazines. He shares the inspirations that have helped his career in ranching and how collecting that experience and learning about others h...

David, Paul and Progressive Cattle editor Carrie Veselka visit with Hugh Aljoe, a range and pasture consultant and director of producer relations at the Noble Research Institute. Hugh discusses those common hurdles that producers see when buying new equipment, adopting new record-keeping programs, and building a mindset for data and analytics. He additionally shares how the pandemic has affected p...

Join Paul, David and Cassidy on the Progressive Cattle podcast for a visit with the legendary cowboy poet and performer Baxter Black. Baxter shares a look back on his start in column writing and cowboy poetry, and his connection to his readers and listeners. He also shares a preview of his new series of audiobooks with stories about life and love on the rodeo circuit.

Join David, Cassidy and Paul as they host the podcast from the sound stage at the Cassia County Fair and Rodeo in Burley. Their guest is Randee Munns, a veteran barrel man and rodeo clown who has worked events across the northwest U.S. for almost 40 years, and is still working the circuit at age 70. They discuss the importance of returning to fair events after a long stretch of isolation in the ag...

We’ve talked about the challenges the current pandemic has brought to the beef industry, but what about the opportunities? Listen in as David, Cassidy and Paul talk with University of Idaho meat scientist Phil Bass about possible innovation in the cow-calf segment all the way to retail.