Apr 17
In the midst of many challenges for the agriculture sector, American Farmers & Ranchers (AFR) Cooperative brought rural issues to the Oklahoma Capitol Building April 12. Nearly 100 AFR members from across Oklahoma convened to discuss agriculture and rural issues and meet directly with state lawmakers. “Last year’s legislative landscape was especially tumultuous,” said AFR …
Apr 17
Nationwide, winter wheat was rated 27 percent good to excellent, unchanged from the previous week and three percentage points behind last year’s good-to-excellent rating of 30 percent. That’s still the lowest rating for the crop in over three decades. Oklahoma crop conditions continue to decline due to little rainfall, while in Washington, the crop is …
Apr 17
The late, great Democratic President Harry S. Truman once famously placed a sign on his desk which proclaimed, “The Buck Stops Here.” Surely, “Give ‘em Hell Harry” is rolling in his grave on the release of the Biden Administration’s reports on its disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021. Rather than accepting responsibility …
Apr 17
Wall Street rules intended for publicly traded companies should not extend to family farms. That is the message the American Farm Bureau Federation and six other agricultural groups sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC proposed a rule to require public companies to report on Scope 3 emissions, which are the result of …
Apr 17
“The ransom note that Speaker McCarthy unveiled in front of a crowd of Wall Street bankers is dead on arrival,” said Agriculture Ranking Member David Scott. Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member David Scott released the following statement in response to Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt limit framework which, if passed as proposed, would include additional …
Apr 17
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that agricultural producers and private landowners can begin signing up for the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) starting today and running through May 26, 2023. Among CRP enrollment opportunities, Grassland CRP is a unique working lands program, allowing producers and landowners to continue grazing and haying practices while conserving …
Apr 17
On March 31, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its yearly Prospective Plantings Report, and Quarterly Grains Stocks reports. The reports provide valuable insights for U.S. wheat importing customers as we enter the final two months of the 2022/23 marketing year and look ahead to the 2023 harvest. In this article, we will analyze USDA’s recent …
Apr 17
An LG Seeds agronomist shares four tips for an effective spring burndown A wetter spring outlook for some areas of the Midwest has farmers eying the calendar, but timely planting isn’t their only concern. “A good spring burndown program with some residual control will be extremely important, as a wet spring could result in some weed-ridden …
