Category: Ag News

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:14:26 CDT

Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) will hold town hall meetings in Woods, Woodward, Harper, and Ellis Counties on Thursday, October 27th and Friday, October 28th. Residents around the locations are invited to a…

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 02:47:49 CDT

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Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:34:06 CDT

Oklahoma Forestry Services is urging Oklahomans to use extreme caution in the face of high and increasing fire danger. A warming trend predicted into the weekend coupled with increasing winds and continued d…

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:56:45 CDT

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture are now putting the Daily Cash Grain Report into a PDF format – we are saving that PDF and archiving them for today’s specific report. To see today’s update, click on the PDF report link at the bottom of this story.

In addition to the PDF of the daily report, you can also listen to the Cash Grain Report by calling 405-621-5533. Push 2 for the grain report.

Click here: 04614_OklaCashGrain10202022.pdf

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:07:37 CDT

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Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:52:51 CDT

In recent weeks, BigIron Auctions and Sullivan Auctioneers have begun meeting regularly to share best practices as they look toward the future together. As these organizations focus their efforts on growth, …

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:34:41 CDT

An Oklahoma State University researcher is trying to find the cure for a poultry disease that costs the industry $6 billion per year.

Necrotic enteritis is a disease that causes severe intestinal lesions, growth retardation and low mortality to poultry, according to Glenn Zhang, OSU professor of animal and food sciences. Zhang said there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of the disease worldwide following the industry banning the use of antibiotics because the drugs can be passed along to people, causing an immunity to antibiotic medications.

With antibiotics no longer a factor, it is important to find alternatives that will combat the disease, Zhang said, and solving the problem starts with genetics.

“For this project, we are trying to identify specific microbes and metabolites associated with resistance to necrotic enteritis in chickens,” he said. “We know there are certain breeds of chickens that are naturally resistant to infections, while there are other genetically related breeds that are relatively susceptible. I am searching for the differences in the composition and function of the gut bacteria among different breeds of chickens when it comes to infection.”

The $300,000 project, funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, is a collaborative project among OSU, Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service in East Lansing, Michigan.

Zhang’s team has conducted animal trials and is in the process of using a combination of metagenomics and metabolomics technologies to identify the bacteria and their metabolites in resistant chicken breeds. Once they are identified, the next phase of research is to introduce them into susceptible and commercial breeds of chickens to prove the hypothesis that it is this bacteria and their metabolites that are responsible for disease resistance.

“It will be a dream come true for me if we can develop these gut bacteria or metabolites as alternatives to antibiotics for growth promotion and disease resistance,” Zhang said.

This material is based upon work supported by the Foundational and Applied Science Program under award number 2022-67016-37208 for $300,000 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

OSU Ag Research is Oklahoma’s premier research and technology development agency in agriculture, natural resources and the life sciences.

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:34:03 CDT

U.S. grains in all forms (GIAF) exports for marketing year (MY) 2021/2022 totaled more than 122 million metric tons (MMT), the second highest year on record following 129 MMT in MY 2020/2021, according to da…

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:02:59 CDT

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Associate Farm Editor, Reagan Calk, got the chance to visit with Brady Miller, the Texas Cattle Feeders Association Director of Market, Membership, and Education about the …