The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) is pleased to welcome Alison Foster, Mary Gray Holdren and Margo Nagle, three new staff members who will strengthen the association’s policy engagement, education and communications operations. “Over the past year, the AFIA has strategically assessed our members’ changing operating environment and, in response, identified new areas of excellence. …
Category: Ag News
Dec 17
National Livestock Backs All American Beef Battalion at Oklahoma National Stockyards
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Chris Carroll, president of National Livestock Credit Corporation, about the company’s long-standing partnership with the All American Beef Battalion and the outlook for the cattle industry. Carroll joined Hays at the Oklahoma National Stockyards, where National Livestock helped host a steak dinner …
Dec 17
How Virtual Fencing Transforms Grazing Management
Meghan Filbert introduces her role as the community and partnerships manager for NoFence to intern Karleigh Erramouspe and explains how the company’s virtual fencing technology works. Filbert describes the system as GPS-enabled collars for cattle, sheep, and goats that connect to a phone app to set and adjust boundaries. As she puts it, the collars …
Dec 17
Senators Mullin, Heinrich Reintroduce Bipartisan Indian Buffalo Management Act
U.S. Senators Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) reintroduced the bipartisan Indian Buffalo Management Act, legislation that promotes Tribal capacity to own and manage buffalo on tribal lands. The Indian Buffalo Management Act directs the U.S. Department of the Interior to work with Tribes and Tribal organizations by entering into contracts, conducting consultation, and …
Dec 17
Cow Calf Conrer David Lalman and Bailey Tomson: Finding Forage Efficient Heifers
In recent years, substantial progress has been made in understanding biological and genetic sources of variation in feed efficiency of growing cattle consuming energy-dense, mixed diets during the post-weaning phase. In contrast, much less is known about feed efficiency of cattle consuming moderate- to low-quality forage diets. This is important because approximately 74% of the …
Dec 17
Wednesday 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.
Dec 17
John Deere’s Operations Center: New Tools Boost Efficiency for Farmers
As digital technology becomes essential across modern farming, Oklahoma Farm Report’s Maci Carter caught up with John Deere’s Erin Jost to discuss how the Operations Center is empowering producers with clearer, faster insights. Jost described it as “our data hub for the farming operation,” where both agronomic and machine information flows together. Jost emphasized that …
Dec 16
Choice Boxed Beef Drops 58 Cents to $358.88 on Tuesday
On Tuesday, December 16, 2025, boxed beef values were mixed, with the Choice cutout slipping $0.58 to $358.88/cwt, while Select rose $1.80 to $349.10/cwt, narrowing the spread to $9.78, down from $12.16 the day before. Load volume was slightly higher at 119 loads, up from 114 on Monday. Among the primal cuts, Rib values dropped …
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