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While policy related to the cattle industry is undeniably important, as producers we typically fall into one of two camps: those of us who understand the importance of beef policy but who have seemingly one million things also requiring our attention back at home and those of us who derive great pleasure in the happenings related to beef in our home states and in Washington.

No matter where your preference lies, every four years like clockwork one event comes along that turns everything related to the inner workings of government on its head: the election of a new president.

With the inauguration and first few days of a new presidency fresh on our minds, this episode is devoted to all things policy. We are joined by Ethan Lane with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association to discuss:

• The state of affairs over the last four years in our capital
• The typical transition of power
• How NCBA’s policy direction is developed
• The role that we all play is directing beef policy here in the U.S.
• And much, much more!

Additional resources:

• NCBA's Policy webpage
• The NCBA Policy Book

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Welcome to a brand new season of Angus at Work! To kick off this year we visited with two individuals who are very familiar with cattle markets and customer service.

On this episode we travelled to Beaver, Okla., to sit down with Jeff Slatten, owner of Beaver County Stockyards, to hear his opinion on the current cattle markets, what is going well when it comes to cattle marketing, what producers can do to capitalize on the value of their cattle and how the staff at Beaver County keep their buyers and sellers coming back for more each week.

Later in the episode we also took the opportunity to visit with Layne Conkle, voice of the Beaver County Stockyard market report, to hear more about how marketing cattle has changed at Beaver over the last several years.

For more information about cattle markets or the stockyard itself, please visit the Beaver County Stockyards Youtube channel.

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We’re smack dab in the middle of a season of celebration and the beef industry certainly has its fair share to be thankful for.

On this episode - as part of a new quarterly market update feature - we chatted with Troy Marshall, Director of Commercial Industry Relations, about current trends in the cattle market, how Angus feeder-calf sales in several states got their start as well as an update on recent feeder-calf sales held in December, and where we see the cattle markets heading as we celebrate the new year and head into 2025.

We thank Purina Mills for their support of this episode.

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