Jun 05
Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after President Biden announced an “border crackdown” executive order yesterday afternoon: “Three and a half years ago, President Biden assumed the presidency with an aggressive immigration agenda. He took 94 executive actions in just his first 100 days in office, including removing Title 42 and Remain in …
Jun 05
Smithfield Foods has donated $500,000 to fund SUN Bucks in North Carolina, a newly established, permanent USDA program that provides food assistance to children and families during the summer. “Fighting food insecurity and hunger is a top priority for Smithfield,” said Steve Evans, vice president, community development for Smithfield Foods. “We’re humbled to do our …
Jun 05
Compared to the last report: We have had several storms across Oklahoma which have slowed down some hay trade as well as hay baling. Wheat hay movement has picked up but not enough to say the demand is high. Old-crop hay continues to move lower in price as we enter the new hay season. We …
Jun 05
Pivot Bio, a leading sustainable agriculture company, today announced its customers, since the beginning of 2022, reduced carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions by over 932,000 metric tons (MT). The savings, the result of their using Pivot Bio’s microbial nitrogen to improve the efficiency of their nitrogen management plans, is equivalent to the annual emissions of …
Jun 05
Nori announced the issuance of over 125,000 Regenerative Tonnes from the Bayer Carbon Program in the U.S. in its marketplace, marking the largest single issuance of credits in the company’s history. The credits represent an unprecedented expansion to Nori’s carbon removal supply and add significant supply across the soil organic carbon industry as a whole. …
Jun 05
Decomposition ecology specialist Jonathan Cammack is settling into his first year as the new livestock entomologist for Oklahoma State University Extension. Since January 2024, Cammack has taught the livestock entomology class in the Ferguson College of Agriculture, offered expertise at OSU Extension events statewide, recorded podcast episodes with OSU Extension animal science specialists and met …
Jun 05
Smithfield Foods has donated $500,000 to fund SUN Bucks in North Carolina, a newly established, permanent USDA program that provides food assistance to children and families during the summer. “Fighting food insecurity and hunger is a top priority for Smithfield,” said Steve Evans, vice president, community development for Smithfield Foods. “We’re humbled to do our …
Jun 05
RON’s Dave Lanning has a pre-opening look at today’s agricultural Markets. Click the audio tab below for today’s report.
Jun 04
Applications are now open for Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s fall 2024 Oklahoma Grassroots Rural and Ag Business Accelerators Activate Oklahoma cohort. The Activate Oklahoma rural innovation pipeline provides resources and assistance for innovative rural Oklahoma businesses that have an innovation or product that will bring economic opportunities to rural Oklahoma. Activate Oklahoma cohort members will have …
