Mark Johnson, Oklahoma State University Extension Beef Cattle Breeding Specialist, offers herd health advice as part of the weekly series known as the “Cow Calf Corner” published electronically by Dr. Peel, Mark Johnson, and Paul Beck. Today, Johnson talks about evaluating your production systems. Cow-calf operations should analyze their production system and critically evaluate the following: …
Category: Ag News
May 23
Nature’s Path Continues Its Fight Against Food Insecurity with Gardens for Good Program
Nature’s Path, North America’s largest certified breakfast and snack food company, is awarding 15 community gardens $7,500 each through its annual Gardens for Good program. Gardens for Good celebrates the meaningful work organic community gardens do across North America. “Community gardens play a vital role in increasing access to organic food for everyone,” says Jyoti …
May 23
Op-Ed in Response to Drovers Article “mRNA Conspiracy Theories: Ranch Group Offers ‘Fearmongering’ and ‘Misinformation’”
When was the last time a ranch group went public and said that despite grandiose reports from the pharmaceutical industry and government about the safety of a novel and yet unapproved synthetically produced immunization delivery system for cattle, in this case messenger ribonucleic acid or mRNA, that the truthful answer is we don’t yet know …
May 23
Cargill expands its award-winning regenerative agriculture program to Europe
Cargill is leveraging its unique position in the supply chain to pioneer its award-winning regenerative agriculture program in Europe, which will see farmers in Germany, Poland, Romania, and France financially compensated to adopt climate-friendly farming practices. Building on two years of success in North America, Cargill RegenConnect™ will also expand from 15 to 24 states, …
May 23
Tuesday 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.
May 22
Oklahoma’s Good to Excellent Pasture and Range Conditions Jump 10 Percentage Points This Week
U.S. Crop Progress: Winter wheat headed for the U.S. reached 61 percent, even with the previous year and the average. Winter wheat conditions rated 31 percent good to excellent, 29 percent fair, and 40 percent poor to very poor. Last week’s conditions rated 29 percent good to excellent, 30 percent fair, and 41 percent poor …
May 22
Oklahoma Sees 77-Cent Price Decline in Wheat Followed by 53-Cent Increase
Below is an analysis of the wheat markets by OSU’s Dr. Kim Anderson: During the last three trading days (May 18, 19, and 22), Oklahoma wheat prices declined 77 cents. The 77-cent price decline followed a three-day 53-cent price increase. Some market analysts attributed the price increase to the May WASDE and USDA Production reports …
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