May 12
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is quickly ramping up hiring of new team members to help implement $19.5 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for conservation programs, which is part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. For example, NRCS opened job announcements this week for soil conservationists in Oklahoma and elsewhere across …
May 12
The USDA released the May WASDE (World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates), which contained the first estimates for the 2023/24 wheat marketing year. Also released were the 2023 wheat production estimates. After the reports were released, Oklahoma wheat prices increased 35 cents. The Pond Creek Oklahoma harvest wheat price ended the day at $8.37. The …
May 12
There is a new blog post out at the Southern Plains Perspective! Read Below: Don’t be alarmed, but we have a lot of work to do. By 2050 it’s estimated that there will be roughly 9.8 billion people on the globe, more than in the entire history of our species. That is a scary thought when you …
May 12
Nationwide: Winter wheat: Production is forecast at 1.13 billion bushels, up 2 percent from 2022. As of May 1, the United States yield is forecast at 44.7 bushels per acre, down 2.3 bushels from last year’s average yield of 47.0 bushels per acre. Area expected to be harvested for grain is forecast at 25.3 million …
May 12
Farm Director, KC Sheperd, caught up with Allendale’s Rich Nelson and talked about the numbers in the latest WASDE report. “Biggest issue we were kind of watching for today was on the wheat side,” Nelson said. “I think the trade was a bit relieved to see that USDA did not hit the export sale numbers …
May 12
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is back talking with the Animal Agriculture Alliance president and CEO, Hannah Thompson-Weeman, about the Supreme Court ruling to uphold California’s Proposition 12, which mandates a wide array of animal production standards and would specifically ban the in-state sale of pork from hogs not raised in accordance with …
May 12
On May 9, at the 2023 Sirloin Gallery of Grands, the Sirloin Club of Oklahoma announced their five award winners for the 2023 agriculturalists under 40. The Sirloin Club of Oklahoma is a group of agriculture enthusiasts who gather each year to support Oklahoma’s 4-H and FFA students. The Sirloin Club supports exhibitors at the …
May 12
While at the National Association of Farm Broadcaster’s Washington Watch event in Washington, D.C., Farm Director KC Sheperd talked with the United Soybean Board executive committee, communication and education chair, Laurie Isley, about the latest work in the soybean industry. “We are excited about a couple of different things,” Isley said. “One is the many, …
