Nov 21
PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCE, DIVERSIFICATION, AND STRATEGY October portfolio yielded 3.48%, up from 2.97% last year, with a weighted average maturity of 929 days. Total assets under management of $16.7 billion, up $1.2 billion in comparison to October 2023. The total portfolio contained 73.5% in U.S. Treasurys, 3.5% in U.S. government agencies, 13.5% in mortgage-backed securities, 8.5% money market mutual …
Nov 21
BASF invites cotton farmers who yield one ton or more of cotton during the 2024 season using FiberMax® cotton seed to join its exclusive FiberMax One Ton Club™, now in its 20th year. Club enrollment is now open, and members have the opportunity to win rewards, including a two-year lease on a Ford Super Duty® F-350 Lariat® truck. …
Nov 21
A new wheat variety released by Oklahoma State University will help eastern and northern Oklahoma farmers combat the small grain fungal disease fusarium head blight, also known as head scab. “It’s not a common disease in Oklahoma, but it’s dangerous enough that we needed to have something in place for it, especially in the area of Oklahoma …
Nov 21
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is talking with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Chief Counsel Mary-Thomas Hart about the outcome of the election and what it means for the beef industry. “My first four years at NCBA were the four years of the first Trump administration,” Hart shared. “I’m happy to be back …
Nov 21
The North American International Livestock Judging Exposition (NAILE) is the largest all-breed, purebred livestock show in the country. Every year, livestock exhibitors from around the globe come together in Louisville, Kentucky to compete on the green shavings for purple banners. The 119th National Collegiate Livestock Judging Contest was run in conjunction with NAILE on Monday, …
Nov 21
On Wednesday, November 20th, Growth Energy, along with Clean Fuels Alliance America (CFAA), filed a new opening brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Case No. 20-1046) challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to fully account for small refinery exemptions (SREs) when issuing renewable volume obligations (RVO) under the Renewable Fuel …
Nov 21
The Center for Veterinary Medicine at the Food and Drug Administration first issued Guidance For Industry (GFI) #191 in 2009. Over the last few years, the CVM asked animal health manufacturers to update growth implant labels in accordance with the production phases outlined in GFI #191. This created some confusion around how growth implants could …
Nov 21
U.S. Poultry & Egg Association matching Giving Tuesday donations up to $100,000 The Animal Agriculture Alliance, a non-profit working to safeguard the future of animal agriculture, is participating in Giving Tuesday on December 3. Every bit counts and from now until Giving Tuesday, U.S. Poultry & Egg Association will match donations up to $100,000 to …
Nov 21
Many young farm kids dream of having a toy John Deere tractor or imagine working cows and plowing fields on the carpet of their living room. For Mike McGuire his dream as a young 4-Her was to have an Angus heifer. “I had some influential people around me at that time that had an …
Nov 21
To view the latest Oklahoma drought map, CLICK HERE. According to the latest Oklahoma drought monitor report, exceptional drought remains at zero percent, unchanged from the start of the calendar year. Extreme drought or worse conditions remain at zero percent, unchanged for two weeks. Severe drought or worse conditions have decreased to 1.85 percent, down from 9.38 percent last week. Moderate …
