This Week The national average for a gallon of gas increased 3 cents since last week, despite lower demand and the price of oil falling several dollars per barrel and struggling to stay above $80. But the potential for hurricane development and forecasts of an expanding heat dome over Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas next week …
Category: Ag News
Aug 21
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $700 Million to Connect People in Remote and Rural Areas to High-Speed Internet
Funding is Part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced nearly $700 million in grants and loans to connect thousands of rural residents, farmers and business owners in 22 states and the Marshall Islands to reliable, affordable high-speed internet through the ReConnect Program, funded by President Biden’s …
Aug 21
Monday Preopening Market Update with Dave Lanning
RON’s Dave Lanning has a pre-opening look at today’s agricultural Markets. Click the audio tab below for today’s report.
Aug 19
Oklahoma Pork Industry Foreign Animal Disease Exercise Called a Success
Oklahoma’s recent hyper-realistic Foreign Animal Disease (FAD) preparedness exercise concluded this past week after four days of collaboration and learning. With the drill run on a working hog production site provided by the HANOR Company, more than 50 people were able to progress through the stages of disease confirmation from animal testing to humane depopulation …
Aug 19
August Cattle on Feed Report Surprises with Big Placement Drop
According to the August USDA Cattle on Feed report- out on Friday August 18, 2023- Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.0 million head on August 1, 2023. The inventory was 2 percent below August 1, 2022. Placements …
Aug 18
National Beef Quality Audit Helping Beef Industry Deliver High Quality Product to Consumers
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is featuring comments from Farm Director, KC Sheperd’s interview with Oklahoma State University’s Morgan Pfeiffer about the National Beef Quality Audit. The National Beef Quality Audit (NBQA) is a comprehensive survey that evaluates beef industry efforts to improve beef quality. Conducted every five years since 1991, the checkoff-funded Audit …
Aug 18
Bob Rodenberger Says Market is Still Good but Seeing a Little Softness in Demand
KC Sheperd, Farm Director, is back talking with Bob Rodenberger, a partner with Stockman Oklahoma Livestock Marketing, as he gives the latest on the cattle markets. “We’re pretty steady to what we were a year ago. I don’t know how that’s gonna pan out,” Rodenberger said. “I mean, I know, overall, we’re down numbers, but …
Aug 18
Alex Rocateli Shares What to Know Before Planting Alfalfa This Year
In preparation for alfalfa planting season, Farm Broadcaster, KC Sheperd, visited with Alex Rocateli, an OSU Extension Forage Systems Specialist, about alfalfa varieties, the upcoming planting season, and what will allow alfalfa to thrive this year. “Make sure that you are getting alfalfa that has a winter survival rate of three and four, and the …
Aug 18
OKFB kicks off mental wellbeing series with Adrienne DeSutter
More than 50 Oklahoma Farm Bureau members and guests attended the first Cultivating Healthy Minds webinar on Friday, Aug. 11. How to Have the Conversation, the first in OKFB’s three-part mental wellness series, featured Adrienne DeSutter of Sow Hope, Grow Hope. Adrienne works with agriculture organizations and businesses to promote mental health in agriculture. Part …
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