Feb 17
House Democratic Caucus Leader Cyndi Munson, D-Oklahoma City said house democrats will continue to vote against any plan that would redirect public funding to private schools. “HB 1935 is a $250 million dollar proposal to fund private schools,” Rep. Munson said. HB 1935 passed the House A&B committee today. “Oklahoma still ranks at the bottom …
Feb 17
Oklahoma Farm Bureau is proud to support HB 2775 and HB 1935 by House Speaker Charles McCall to increase funding for public schools across the state of Oklahoma. These proposals would assist public school funding in a number of ways, including providing a teacher pay raise and increasing each school’s per-pupil funding through a $500 million total funding …
Feb 17
Join your fellow Oklahoma Farm Bureau members in Washington, D.C. March 27-31 for the 2023 OKFB Washington, D.C. Summit, formerly known as the OKFB Congressional Action Tour. While in D.C., Farm Bureau members will have the opportunity to visit with elected officials and industry experts to discuss issues affecting agriculture and rural America. Schedule Outline …
Feb 17
Instead of asking “what’s in store” for crackers and cookies and other wheat-based snack foods in a post-COVID world, those in the U.S. wheat industry may want to ask the same question in a slightly modified way. What’s in the store? When COVID hit in 2020, international consumers had already been drawn to convenient foods that fit …
Feb 17
Nothing quite says “love is in the air” like 18 pages of discussion on reducing pesticide spray drift exposures for non-target species. That was the theme of comments ASA submitted Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, to an open docket on EPA’s Endangered Species Act Work Plan Update. The Work Plan Update proposes developing general ecological restrictions under …
Feb 17
RON’s Dave Lanning has a pre-opening look at today’s agricultural Markets. Click the audio tab below for today’s report.
Feb 16
Oklahoma Farm Bureau is proud to support HB 2775 and HB 1935 by House Speaker Charles McCall to increase funding for public schools across the state of Oklahoma. These proposals would assist public school funding in a number of ways, including providing a teacher pay raise and increasing each school’s per-pupil funding through a $500 million total funding …
Feb 16
This Week on SUNUP is Oklahoma State University Extension grain market economist Kim Anderson. During this week’s edition, Anderson talks about what is going on internationally, as there was not much movement with the crop prices this week. “There just wasn’t much in the market this week, but you look at Mexico, they talked about …
