Mar 18
At the Oklahoma Youth Expo, Farm Director KC Sheperd caught up with Blake Kennedy, CEO and Founder of Kennedy Ventures, to discuss the Night of Stars Gilt Sale, which will take place at 6 p.m. on March 19th at the OKC fairgrounds. Last year’s sale hit record numbers, with 131 gilts sold for a record …
Mar 18
Dr. Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, offers his economic analysis of the beef cattle industry as part of the weekly series known as the “Cow Calf Corner,” published electronically by Dr. Peel and Mark Johnson. Today, Dr. Peel talks about cattle imports from Mexico. U.S. cattle and beef trade with Mexico …
Mar 18
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is visiting with the Executive Director of Nutrition Research at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Dr. Shalene McNeill, about the dietary guidelines for 2025. “USDA and Health and Human Services are now developing the 10th edition of our Dietary Guidelines for Americans,” McNeill said. “We had our very first …
Mar 18
Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a group of 24 state attorneys general and one state legislature in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new methane emissions rule. The coalition has filed a petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to block the rule. “The Biden Administration’s methane …
Mar 18
Sorghum prices generally follow corn prices. Since 2006/07, the biofuel era, the largest discount of sorghum to corn was -$0.74 per bushel; the largest sorghum premium to corn was +$0.79; and the average price relationship was -$0.11. (Figure 1). Figure 1. Monthly Average Sorghum and Corn Prices Paid to Farmers by Marketing Year The level of sorghum …
Mar 18
RON’s Dave Lanning has a pre-opening look at today’s agricultural Markets. Click the audio tab below for today’s report.
Mar 17
The 2024 contest landed in a new venue- the OKC Fairgrounds Pavilion Building and took up about 80% of the 70,000 square foot building. For the awards ceremony at one end of the building, It was a full house to honor the best of FFA and 4-H competitors who had worked hours and hours on …
Mar 16
Ag Mechanics has always been a big deal in the world of Ag Education with a lot of students enjoying welding and building projects- large and small. Now in Oklahoma- there is a creative outlet for both 4-H and FFA members with this passion at the World’s Largest Livestock Show- the OYE Ag Mechanics Contest. …
Mar 16
Just over a thousand purebred breeding gilts were competing for breed and overall honors Thursday and Friday- and when it came down to the nine breed champs on Friday afternoon, Madison Walker of Red Oak FFA took the Supreme Championship. She showed the Champion Berkshire Gilt on Friday that was then selected as the 2024 …
