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Forrest Roberts of Elanco Named National Cattlemen's Beef Association CEO

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:28:37 CST  |  The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association announced today Forrest L. Roberts will be its next chief executive officer. Roberts, 42, will start January 20, 2009. “We are thrilled Forrest will be joining us as CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.  Read more...


Agricultural News

  • Vilsack Confirmation Hearing Set for January 14  Tue, 06 Jan 2009 4:23:11 CST
  • Tyson's Dick Bond Abruptly Quits World's Largest Meat Company  Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:27:14 CST
  • Farm Bureau's Mike Spradling Anticipates Challenging Year For Farmers and Ranchers   Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:25:38 CST
  • Estate Tax Exemption Jumps to $3.5 Million as we Begin the New Year  Mon, 05 Jan 2009 5:59:54 CST
  • Beef Publicity in the 2008 Holiday Season Nets 900 Million Consumer Impressions!  Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:55:47 CST
  • Kansas City Wheat Futures Start New Year in Positive Territory  Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:10:18 CST
  • Forrest Roberts of Elanco Named National Cattlemen's Beef Association CEO  Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:30:00 CST
  • Number Two Man At USDA Headed to the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives   Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:33:01 CST
  • Kansas City Wheat Moves Higher on Short Covering in Tuesday Trade  Wed, 31 Dec 2008 6:34:53 CST
  • Hog and Pig Inventory Down 2% From Year Ago  Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:52:21 CST
  • US Beef Tops Beef Sales at Major Retailers in South Korea  Tue, 30 Dec 2008 6:29:18 CST
  • R-Calf Claims Regulatory Victory Regarding NAIS  Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:30:11 CST
  • After a See Saw Session- Kansas City Wheat Futures Finish Lower on Monday  Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:58:22 CST
  • Dairymax Helps With Innovative Breakfast Program at Bethel, Oklahoma High School  Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:13:00 CST
  • Cattlemen to Cattlemen Reaches the Century Mark  Mon, 29 Dec 2008 5:51:46 CST
  • Conservation Districts and The Nature Conservancy Partner Again to Honor Cooperators in the State  Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:55:10 CST
  • Shorts Unwind and Kansas City Wheat Futures Jump Up  Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:07:08 CST
  • Full Roster of Oklahoma Ag Committees Revealed- Senator Ron Justice and Representative Don Armes Are the Chairs.  Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:14:22 CST
  • Curly Calf Testing Now Available From Both Merial and Pfizer Genetics Units  Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:32:56 CST
  • Doud's Advice to Producers- Hold Your Money Together  Fri, 26 Dec 2008 6:27:39 CST
  • Wheat Prices Move Higher Again on Technical Factors and Weaker Dollar  Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:27:02 CST
  • Tighter Supplies of Meat Will Help Cattle Prices- Eventually  Wed, 24 Dec 2008 7:03:08 CST
  • Merry Christmas to One and to All  Wed, 24 Dec 2008 6:49:03 CST
  • Kansas City Wheat Futures Follow Corn and Soybeans to a Positive Close on Tuesday  Wed, 24 Dec 2008 3:42:08 CST
  • Auto Sales Decline Hurts Cattle Market  Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:09:56 CST
  • Dollar's Strength Impacts US Meat Demand  Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:27:26 CST
  • Hard Red Winter Wheat Prices Go Higher in Monday Kansas City Trade  Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:09:10 CST
  • 368 Bushels of Corn Per Acre Wins National Corn Yield Contest for 2008  Mon, 22 Dec 2008 7:04:41 CST
  • OSU Releases Details of 2008 Soybean Performance Tests  Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:58:45 CST
  • Altus Cotton Gin Operating 22 Hours A Day- Expects to End 2009 Cotton Crop Ginning Mid January  Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:17:40 CST
  • National FFA Decides to Rotate Convention Between Indianapolis and Louisville  Sat, 20 Dec 2008 7:36:47 CST
  • 2009 Farm Bill Signup Will Finally Begin this Coming Monday, December 22  Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:44:11 CST
  • Tighter Payments Limits that Were Mandated in 2008 Farm Law Rolled Out by USDA for 2009 Farm Programs  Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:35:04 CST
  • Cattle on Feed Report a Yawner- Numbers Right in Line with the Trade Expectations  Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:31:51 CST
  • Kansas City Wheat Futures Lower on Friday- Pushed Down by Stronger US Dollar  Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:01:28 CST
  • Chandler Keys on the Batista Way of Doing Business at JBS Swift  Fri, 19 Dec 2008 8:06:35 CST
  • Jim Robb Calls It the "Settling Down" phase of the 2008 Market Shock  Fri, 19 Dec 2008 7:54:13 CST
  • Kim Anderson Talks Best Management Practice Obligations for Crop Insurance on SUNUP  Fri, 19 Dec 2008 7:12:41 CST
  • Kansas City Wheat Futures Higher on Thursday- Reflecting Concern About Winterkill  Fri, 19 Dec 2008 6:36:13 CST
  • Oklahoma Wheat Commission Opens Up Job Search for New Executive Director  Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:58:36 CST
  • Another Day of Gains for Hard Red Winter Wheat at the Kansas City Board of Trade  Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:41:37 CST
  • National Cattlemen's Beef Association Down to the Final Two in Search for a New CEO  Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:09:50 CST
  • Organic Group Plans Effort to Stop Vilsack's Bid to be USDA Secretary  Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:01:41 CST
  • Frank Lucas, Jim Inhofe and other lawmakers on nod to Tom Vilsack as Head of USDA  Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:47:59 CST
  • Ag Groups Line Up to Praise Tom Vilsack as Presumptive Secretary of Ag  Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:29:46 CST
  • NFU's Buis Hails Vilsack Selection- Calls Obama's rural vision "right on target"  Wed, 17 Dec 2008 6:44:52 CST
  • LMIC's Jim Robb Says Tough Times Now for Beef Cow Herds- but Improved Profit Prospects by End of Next Year and 2010.  Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:35:14 CST
  • Kansas City Wheat Futures March Higher in Tuesday Trade  Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:08:11 CST
  • Current EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson Has Nice Things to Say about Obama Pick for the Agency  Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:58:05 CST
  • Tom Vilsack tabbed as USDA Chief for Obama Team  Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:51:30 CST
  • National Ag Education Honors Won by Caddo Kiowa Technology Center  Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:01:12 CST
  • Kansas City Wheat Futures Stronger on Monday  Tue, 16 Dec 2008 6:42:21 CST
  • Hodges Believes Synergy Has Made Wheat Commission and Oklahoma Wheat Growers Better by Working Together  Tue, 16 Dec 2008 6:08:56 CST
  • Feedlots are Staggering Under Massive Amounts of Red Ink  Tue, 16 Dec 2008 5:45:49 CST
  • Red Ink Flows for much of the Beef Cattle Business  Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:00:16 CST
  • Beef and Pork Export Numbers Hold Up Well in October- USMEF's s Erin Daley offers analysis  Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:42:40 CST
  • Mr Wheat for 2008 is Keith Kisling- Special Achievement Award Goes to Mark Hodges at OWGA Meeting  Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:29:59 CST
  • Oklahoma Delegation Talks Wheat Trade and More with Cuban Officials  Sat, 13 Dec 2008 4:18:58 CST
  • Kansas City Wheat Futures Start Lower- Finish Higher in Friday Dealings  Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:13:08 CST
  • Pawnee FFA Wins Tulsa Farm Show Livestock Handling Skills Contest  Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:30:01 CST
  • R-Calf Continues to Campaign for Withdrawal of OTM Rule Affecting Import of Older Canadian Cattle  Fri, 12 Dec 2008 8:19:50 CST
  • OSU and the Beef Innovations Group Continue Work on Beef Value Cuts  Fri, 12 Dec 2008 8:00:46 CST
  • American Soybean Association President John Hoffman Will Meet with Ag Secretary Schafer This Afternoon on ASA Charges Against USB  Fri, 12 Dec 2008 6:43:16 CST
  • Wheat Market Faces Tough Fundamentals as We Close 2008- Dr. Kim Anderson Explains All on SUNUP  Fri, 12 Dec 2008 6:29:00 CST
  • Educate Yourself on Johne's Disease- It Will Pay Dividends in Your Cattle Herd  Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:40:55 CST
  • Ending Stocks Raised for Corn, Soybeans and Wheat by Uncle Sam- Negative for Price Fundamentals  Thu, 11 Dec 2008 8:24:38 CST
  • Kansas City Wheat Futures Higher Yesterday Ahead of the Thursday Morning USDA Stocks Numbers  Thu, 11 Dec 2008 5:40:40 CST
  • Positive Articles on US Beef in Korean Magazines May Show We Are Past Anti US Beef Attitudes  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:19:38 CST
  • Training for A Foreign Disease Outbreak- Hoping Never to Have to Use the Experience Gained  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:03:03 CST
  • Training for A Foreign Disease Outbreak- Hoping Never to Have to Use the Experience Gained  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:44:50 CST
  • Congressman Tom Cole Hails Lucas Appointment to Top Republican Spot on House Ag Committee  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:39:19 CST
  • United Soybean Board Calls ASA Charges Totally Untrue  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:41:26 CST
  • New Ranking Republican Member of US House Ag Committee- Frank Lucas (story now has audio with Congressman Lucas)  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:26:22 CST
  • The American Soybean Association Demands Soybean Checkoff Audit  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 9:58:37 CST
  • Cattlemen Propose that Limited Value Animals Get a Pass on Paying the Beef Checkoff  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 5:59:04 CST
  • Most Farm Groups Say to USDA- Implement 2008 Farm Bill And Start the Payments Flowing  Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:50:59 CST
  • OSU Horse Judging Team Cream of the Crop at the AQHA Contest  Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:58:17 CST
  • OSU Extension Plans Stocker Receiving Training  Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:49:13 CST
  • First Call for 2009 Oklahoma Ag Hall of Fame  Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:46:39 CST
  • BP Sees A "Sweet" Spot for Ethanol as They Stay Away from Grain Based Biofuels  Tue, 09 Dec 2008 9:50:53 CST
  • More Money for the Beef Checkoff- Gotta Have It  Tue, 09 Dec 2008 6:11:19 CST
  • Department of Food and Agriculture?  Tue, 09 Dec 2008 4:16:07 CST
  • Still Lots of Names on Lists Inside the Beltway for the Secretary of Ag Post at USDA  Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:16:06 CST
  • Senior Division Winners at AFR Speech Finals Include McKenzie Clifton, Tara Newton, Clarissa Craig and Maverick Squires  Mon, 08 Dec 2008 9:11:29 CST
  • Intermediate Division Winners at AFR Speech Finals Include Holly Glass, Micaela Danker, Kelissa Sanders and Morgan Sturgeon  Mon, 08 Dec 2008 9:04:50 CST
  • Tara Burchfield and Dossanna Miller of Fairview Win Tournament of Champions at AFR State Speech Contest  Mon, 08 Dec 2008 8:58:13 CST
  • Junior Division Winners at AFR Speech Finals Include Chelsea Coulson, Katie Lippoldt, Blake Cameron and KC Barnes  Mon, 08 Dec 2008 8:44:45 CST
  • Ashton Mese Wins Senior Division of AFR Category at AFR State Speech Finals  Mon, 08 Dec 2008 8:38:36 CST
  • In the Field- Jason Harvey on Made in Oklahoma Gift Baskets  Mon, 08 Dec 2008 7:13:53 CST
  • Beef Checkoff Dollar of 2008 Dramatically Less Valuable Than the One Collected in 1986.  Mon, 08 Dec 2008 6:25:33 CST
  • At Least Two Oklahoma Wheat Producers Busted For Illegal Sales of K-State Wheat Varieties  Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:27:45 CST
  • Speaker Benge Realigns House Committees for 2009 Legislative Session  Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:02:44 CST
  • Kansas City Wheat Futures Fall Some More- Even as Cash Basis Improves  Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:30:09 CST
  • BRD Season Has Arrived in Full Force  Fri, 05 Dec 2008 7:35:27 CST
  • Oklahoma Auctioneer Justin Dodson Secures Spot in World Livestock Auctioneer Competition Next June  Fri, 05 Dec 2008 6:59:08 CST
  • Ag Secretary Sweepstakes Continues  Fri, 05 Dec 2008 6:04:25 CST
  • Weakness Continues in Wheat Marketplace- Dr. Kim Anderson Offers His Latest  Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:10:43 CST
  • Wheat Demand Looks Lousy- Kansas City and Chicago Wheat Futures Tumble Thursday  Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:41:42 CST
  • Three Times A Week Can Work as a Supplement Schedule for Your Mama Cows  Thu, 04 Dec 2008 7:08:47 CST


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