Category: Ag News
Dec 02
Murphy Family to Return to Independent Pork Production Through Agreement with Smithfield
Murphy Family Ventures and Smithfield today announced a definitive agreement that will re-establish the Murphy family farming business, which was founded by Wendell Murphy in 1962 and largely credited with creating the modern swine industry, as one of the largest independent pork producers in the United States. Murphy Family Ventures and Smithfield have signed …
Dec 02
2025 AITC Coloring Contest on Now through January 6th
Aggie and Annie are characters featured in Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom’s NEW book, Flat! The book is full of agricultural discoveries and adventures. We hope you will read the book, make your own ag discoveries, and plan more for Aggie and Annie! Agriculture is Everywhere You experience agriculture every day, even if you don’t …
Dec 02
Mexico and US Collaborate to Eradicate Screwworm Outbreak, Reopen Border for Cattle Trade
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is working with Mexico to develop a new protocol to allow Mexican cattle trade while minimizing the risk of spreading the parasite. USDA’s Gary Crawford visited with Dr. Burke Healey of the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to talk about new protocols being developed to …
Dec 02
EPA Proposes Rule to Revoke Most Food Uses of the Insecticide Chlorpyrifos
Today, Dec. 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed rule to revoke tolerances for chlorpyrifos, which establish the amount of a pesticide that is allowed on food. This rule revokes all tolerances for chlorpyrifos, except for those tolerances associated with the 11 food and feed crops that remain registered. EPA is taking this …
Dec 02
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Detected in Northeast Oklahoma in Commercial Poultry Flock
The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) have confirmed a positive case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Adair County. The virus was detected in a commercial poultry flock. “We’ve been preparing for situations like this due to HPAI circulating around the country …
Dec 02
Producers Discuss Tools, Genetic Progress in Beef
Breeding and raising cattle is big business with risk and seasons of opportunity, and a rebuilding of the industry’s cowherd will be one of those times producers have the chance to make gains from financial and genetic perspectives. A series of educational sessions at the 2024 Angus Convention in November focused on the theme of …
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