Mar 15
Farm Director KC Sheperd is back talking with Bob Rodenberger, a partner with Stockman Oklahoma Livestock, as he gives the latest on the cattle markets. “We have got people trying to buy calves to get on wheat quick enough to get some of this wheat eaten up because you have got cheap wheat, but it has …
Mar 15
In August 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publicly disclosed an ambitious and extensive internal plan to conduct a potentially transformative reform process of NPDES permitting confined animal feeding operations (“CAFO”) under the Clean Water Act. The commencement of this process can best be described as a “soft launch” in that it was first revealed …
Mar 15
Every year, the State of the Union serves as an opportunity for the President to come to Congress and address the people on the wellbeing of our country. In this year’s highly anticipated speech, President Biden used the moment to deliver a hyper partisan and divisive speech which sounded more like a campaign speech than …
Mar 15
March 18-22 is Ag Literacy Week and the Telling the Story Project team members are helping you spread the word. A toolkit has been created to help share these stories and can be found here: https://tellingthestoryproject.org/social-media/. It contains social media posts linking to personal stories told by farmers, agricultural workers, family and community members who …
Mar 15
From 2021 through 2023, farmland values and then interest rates grew, raising interest expenses for crop producers. These higher interest expenses could considerably reduce returns for producers with high levels of land debt. These producers may need large cash down payments to reach profitability with new or refinanced debt. Growth in agricultural real estate values …
Mar 15
Denali, the nation’s leading full-service recycler of organics, is sending hay to a Texas A&M livestock supply point, where it will be distributed to cattle producers in need. Following devastating wildfires, ranchers in the Texas panhandle face dire conditions. The largest wildfire in state history destroyed more than 1 million acres of land and property, …
Mar 15
RON’s Dave Lanning has a pre-opening look at today’s agricultural Markets. Click the audio tab below for today’s report.
Mar 15
With the crossbred breeding gilt show in the books for 2024 and the top seventy of the over 1,200 females selected for next week’s Night of Stars Gilt Sale- Thursday afternoon had the OYE team moving on to the Purebred show with five of the breeds parading before judges Travis Platt of Indiana and Brandon …
