Apr 03
By Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) staff From the parlor to the pasture, numerous advancements in dairy farm management are helping drive up dairy farm efficiency in North America, and that’s helping drive down environmental impact. Everything starts with animal productivity. The North American dairy industry now requires 930,000 fewer cows to produce the same …
Apr 03
RON’s Dave Lanning has a pre-opening look at today’s agricultural Markets. Click the audio tab below for today’s report.
Apr 03
Tulsa State Fair Ringmasters have awarded a total of $70,000 to graduating seniors who have shown livestock at the Tulsa State Fair. A total of one hundred eighteen applications were thoroughly evaluated by the Tulsa Community Foundation’s Tulsa Ringmasters Scholarship Selection Committee. The criteria for selecting the deserving recipients includes: their involvement in extra curricular …
Mar 31
In celebration of National Farmworker Awareness Week, EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe issued the following statement: “During National Farmworker Awareness Week, we pay tribute to the more than two million unsung heroes who do some of the toughest work to help put food on our tables across the United States. Farmworkers often work day and …
Mar 31
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) with Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) led 17 of their colleagues in introducing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval to retain the regulatory definition of habitat within the Endangered Species Act(ESA). By defining habitat, this CRA resolution will provide clarity and transparency to landowners and businesses in Oklahoma and throughout the United States. …
Mar 31
Oklahoma AgCredit, the state’s largest agricultural lending cooperative, will pay its members a record $14 million Patronage return this month. This Patronage return reduces the average member’s interest rate by one percent.* “There’s no other organization, that I am aware of, that’s a financial lender where you have this opportunity…we were with a regular bank …
Mar 31
USDA on Friday released its Prospective Plantings and March 1 Grain Stocks reports. Farm Director, KC Sheperd, visited with Allendale’s Rich Nelson about the two reports. Two USDA reports today, quarterly Grain Stocks and Prospective Plantings, give the trade a good deal of both old and new crop information to digest. Grain Stocks issues remaining …
Mar 31
Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor issued the following statement after Kansas Governor Laura Kelly (D) sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan requesting the agency allow the sale of E15 products this coming summer through the use of an emergency waiver. “Momentum for the emergency waiver continues to build, and we …
