Category: Ag News

ASA & Crop Insurance Coalition Urge Administration, Congress to Protect Crop Insurance

ASA and more than 60 members of the Crop Insurance Coalition are urging Congress and the administration to oppose harmful cuts to the federal crop insurance program during the upcoming fiscal year 2024 budget and appropriations processes. The federal crop insurance program is administered through USDA’s Risk Management Agency. Federal crop insurance is structured so …

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USDA Deputy Secretary Shares Updates at Cattle Industry Convention

Today, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) welcomed U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Dr. Jewel H. Bronaugh to the 2023 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show. “We appreciate the working relationship NCBA has with Deputy Secretary Bronaugh, especially as our focus turns to reauthorization of critical components of the Farm Bill like …

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Feeder Steers Mostly Steady, Steer and Heifer Calves Mostly Steady at Woodward Livestock Auction

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 04:39:28 CST

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Thu Feb 2, 2023

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Feeder Steers Mostly Steady, Steer and Heifer Calves Mostly Steady at Woodward Livestock Auction

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 04:39:28 CST

Woodward Livestock Auction        
Thu Feb 2, 2023

AUCTION
This Week              &nbs…

Thompson Announces Subcommittee Chairs and Jurisdiction for the 118th Congress

Today, Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson (PA-15), Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, announced subcommittee Chairs and jurisdiction for the 118th Congress:   “I’m excited to welcome this talented slate of subcommittee Chairs for the 118th Congress. Their expertise and partnership are essential to fulfilling this Committee’s mandate of delivering certainty and prosperity to American agriculture …

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Kim Anderson Hopes for Timely Rains to Push Along This Year’s Wheat Crop

This Week on SUNUP is Oklahoma State University Extension grain market economist Kim Anderson. During this week’s edition, Anderson talks about what the commodity markets are looking like one month into the new year. “In Oklahoma, our wheat is 34 percent poor to very poor, 39 percent fair and good to excellent is only 17 percent, …

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Oklahoma Cash Grains Report for February 2, 2023

Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act Reintroduced in 118th Congress

Today, Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) reintroduced the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act.  The bill would establish minimum levels of fed cattle purchases made through approved pricing mechanisms, which includes negotiated cash, negotiated grid, at a stockyard, and through trading systems that multiple buyers and sellers regularly …

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Thompson Joins Committee Chairmen and GOP Colleagues in Cosponsoring WOTUS Resolution of Disapproval

Resolution Introduced by T&I Committee Chairman Sam Graves and T&I Water Resources Subcommittee Chairman David Rouzer Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, cosponsored a Waters of the United States (WOTUS) resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) introduced today. The resolution was led by Rep. Sam Graves (MO-06), …

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Merck Animal Health’s Allison Flinn Talks about Results of Consumer Transparency Research Study

Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside of the United States and Canada, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA (NYSE:MRK), announced on January 31, the results of the company’s first-ever consumer transparency research study. At the 2023 Cattle Industry Convention in New Orleans, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron …

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