Aug 07
Building consumer trust to increase wheat demand will be a top priority for Sheri Glazier as she steps into her new role as executive director of the Wheat Foods Council on August 18. During a conversation with Oklahoma Farm Report Associate Farm Reporter Carli Davenport, Glazier said her lifelong connection to agriculture, combined with her …
Aug 07
There is a quote from the 1922 USDA Yearbook of Agriculture that I often use: “The cheapest of all feed is pasture because it furnishes a balanced ration at a low cost and the cow does her own harvesting…but, in comparatively few cases is the fullest possible use made of pasture.” Interest in improved grazing management is …
Aug 07
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays speaks with Donnie Robertson, Vice President of Express Ranches, about the next phase of the Express Ranches dispersal. In Part 1, Robertson discussed the family’s decision to hold one final major event. In Part 2, he detailed the dispersal of Express Ranches females set for early October. …
Aug 07
RON’s Dave Lanning has a pre-opening look at today’s agricultural Markets. Click the audio tab below for today’s report .
Aug 06
The Oklahoma Farm Bureau Ag Fund political action committee has endorsed 11 candidates ahead of Oklahoma’s runoff primary election Aug. 25. The state Ag Fund board—a group of Farm Bureau members selected by their representative OKFB districts—met Thursday, Aug. 6, at the OKFB home office in Oklahoma City. During the meeting, the Ag Fund board …
Aug 06
Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry approved a bipartisan amendment to restore mandatory country-of-origin labeling (MCOOL) for beef during its Farm Bill markup. The amendment, led by Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), passed by a broad bipartisan voice vote, making it the only bipartisan amendment adopted during today’s markup. The …
Aug 06
United States Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) applauds the 17 bipartisan Senators on the Senate Agriculture Committee who voted today to include the American Beef Labeling Act (S.421) in the Senate Farm Bill. Though the final Farm Bill package did not pass out of Committee today, Senators will return in September, and at that time will reconvene and vote, again, on moving the Farm Bill with the passed MCOOL amendment included. “We thank Senator Thune, who has long …
Aug 06
House and Senate lawmakers joined Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday for the ceremonial signing of two laws protecting Oklahoma utility customers and groundwater resources as large-scale data centers expand across the state. Stitt ceremonially signed House Bill 2992, the Data Center Customer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026, authored by Rep. Brad Boles, R-Marlow, and Sen. …
