Category: Ag News
Jun 04
Applications now open for fall 2024 Activate Oklahoma rural development cohort
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 …
Jun 04
Ferguson, Jackson join OKFB communications
Oklahoma Farm Bureau recently welcomed two new employees to the organization’s communications and public relations department. Mickinzi Ferguson joined OKFB as communications specialist in late May. In her role, Ferguson will help share the Farm Bureau and Oklahoma agriculture story by creating social media content, managing the website, generating photography and video assets, producing written …
Jun 04
Strategic Crossbreeding Yields Opportunity to Improve Genetics Utilizing Multiple Breeds
On this episode of Beef Buzz, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays is back talking with Bob Weaber of Kansas State University about strategic crossbreeding in beef cattle operations. Whether a producer’s herd is large or small, Weaber emphasized there is a great opportunity to improve genetics by utilizing multiple breeds. To listen to …
Jun 04
Applications now open for fall 2024 Activate Oklahoma rural development cohort
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 …
Jun 04
Red Dirt Agronomy Podcast Presents the Magic of Grain, Crops, and Grazing in Northeast Oklahoma
The Red Dirt Agronomy Podcast produces new episodes close to every other week that focus on what is happening in the world of crops, soils, and whatever else Oklahoma producers should be thinking about when it comes to getting the most out of their land. The show’s hosts, Brian Arnall Ph.D., Dave Deken, Jason Warren …
Jun 04
National Cotton Council Sets P.I.E. Program Tour Dates
The National Cotton Council (NCC) has scheduled tour dates and locations for the 2024 Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E.) Program. Launched in 1989, the program has enabled more than 1,200 U.S. cotton producers to go to Cotton Belt regions different than their own where they learn about their peers’ innovative production practices. Sponsored by BASF through a grant to …
Jun 04
Positive lifelong impacts from quality cattle mineral supplementation
The concept of fetal programming has been evolving in the beef industry for several decades as more research is done. “Fetal programming is the time when tissues and organs are created during embryonic and fetal development,” says Jason Sewell, Ph.D., cattle nutritionist with Purina Animal Nutrition. “During this time, improper nutrition can permanently alter various …
Jun 04
2024-25 Agriculture Youth Council Members Announced
The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry has selected 15 high school seniors from across Oklahoma to serve on the 2024-25 Oklahoma Agriculture Youth Council. The council was created in 2019 by Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture Blayne Arthur to develop future agricultural leaders by teaching professional skills, exposing members to diverse agricultural operations, and …
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