Category: Ag News
Dec 20
Animal Agriculture Alliance releases reports from 2023 animal rights conferences
Food chain – from farm to fork – urged to prepare for activism in 2024 including “open rescue,” legislative campaigns, and pressure to drop meat from the menu. The Animal Agriculture Alliance has concluded the release of reports from four prominent animal rights extremist conferences held throughout 2023. The conferences included: Direct Action Everywhere’s Animal …
Dec 20
CAB Insider: Carcass Premium Spreads Continue Strength
Live Cattle futures began a recovery from their oversold position beginning Friday, December 8. The uptrend has added $6.20/cwt. to the current December contract and $5.73/cwt. to the February 2024 contract, which has settled slighly lower the past three days. Despite confirmation that futures had finally found a bottom, cash fed cattle prices continued to …
Dec 20
Commitment to Water Quality: Growers’ Voluntary Efforts Bring Progress
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) applauds the sustained reductions in nutrient losses reaching the Gulf of Mexico and the resulting reductions in the average size of the hypoxic zone, as recently documented in the 2023 Report to Congress by the Hypoxia Task Force (HTF). NCGA commends growers for the practical conservation steps and measures they have voluntarily …
Dec 20
2023 Wrapped: Congressman Brecheen’s Legislative Work Highlights
As we reach the conclusion of Congressman Brecheen’s first year in office, here are some of the top legislative highlights of the year in case you might have missed it. Top Amendments: Top Bills Introduced: Top Committee Activity: 2. Participated in the 16-hour markup and helped pass out of the Homeland Security Committee H.R.2, the …
Dec 20
Agricultural Economic Insights Predicts Softer Farmland Market in 2024
At the Agricultural Economic Insights booth at the 2023 National Association of Farm Broadcasters Convention, Farm Director KC Sheperd had the chance to talk with Farmland Analyst Randy Dickhut about an outlook on farmland purchases for 2024. Agricultural Economic Insights, LLC was founded in 2014 by Dr. Brent Gloy and David Widmar. Recognizing an opportunity to provide timely, …
Dec 20
OSU Horticulture Education Center opens to enhance community programming
The Botanic Garden at Oklahoma State University celebrated the grand opening of its new Horticulture Education Center on Dec. 19. The 2,100-square-foot facility features a large classroom for student, faculty and community learning opportunities, as well as office space and restrooms. “It’s another memorable milestone in the history of The Botanic Garden at OSU as …
Dec 20
Looking Back to Twenty Years Since the Cow That Stole Christmas
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is talking with Terrain’s Chief Research and Analytics Officer, Done Close, about the cow that stole Christmas in 2003. This coming weekend will mark 20 years since the announcement of the first case of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), or Mad Cow Disease, in the United States. The U.S. …
Dec 20
Just How Do Santa’s Reindeer Get the Job Done?
On today’s Cow-Calf Corner, Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Emeritus Extension Animal Scientist & Mark Z. Johnson, Oklahoma State University Extension Beef Cattle Breeding Specialist get into the holiday spirit with Reindeer talk! It is the “most wonderful time of the year” and this week Dr. Glenn Selk joins us to address the age-old questions of …
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