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When it comes to the winter wheat crop nationally, growers in the southern U.S. continue to report poor conditions. "With respect to winter wheat, we're continuing to watch Texas. 39% of the winter wheat rated in very poor to poor condition on March 7th," noted USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey ...

Nationally, wheat futures have rallied this week, primarily because of the wheat conditions across the Midwest. USDA Outlook Board Chairman, Mark Jekanowski, said for example in Texas only 28% of its wheat crop is rated good to excellent shape ...

Cautious optimism is the predominant attitude among a majority of cattle producers six weeks into the New Year. “Cautiously in the sense that we’ve got a new administration coming in that we’re fully anticipating a lot of new regulatory ideas, a lot of new challenges that are going to be very difficult for us to maneuver and we’re going to have to be very vigilant as we move forward in that sense,

Following the executive orders signed by President Joe Biden, a group of Republican Senators announced opposition to the halting of construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The effort was led by Senator Steve Daines of Montana and Republicans from Idaho, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma and North Dakota ...

Oklahoma has a new law governing labeling for some vegan products. A vegan company doesn’t like that and has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of western Oklahoma. The suit was filed by Upton’s Naturals Company, an Illinois-based business that sells plant-based foods, and the Plant-Based Foods Association, a group with 170 members. The Tul ...

The National FFA Organization this week announced a record-high student membership of 760,113, an increase from last year’s 700,170 members. The top five student membership states are Texas, California, Georgia, Florida and Oklahoma. I ...

The Requiring Assistance to Meat Processors for Upgrading Plants, or RAMP-UP Act, seeks to increase the nation’s meat packing capacity. The bipartisan House bill was recently introduced by Oklahoma Republican Frank Lucas and Minnesota Democrat, and Ag Chairman Collin Peterson. Lu ...

We've reached the half way point of winter wheat harvest nationally. "Reaching 56% completion by July 5th. One point ahead of the 5 year average and substantially ahead of last year's 42%," said USDA Meteorologist, Brad Rippey. He added at this point Oklahoma is the first major production state to wrap up harvest ...

According to Washington State university’s Dr. Xianming Chen, stripe rust has been discovered in winter wheat on the Palouse. Earlier this week, stripe rust was discovered on susceptible varieties in WSU’s experimental fields around Pullman. This is t ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives is urging the USDA to provide findings of its beef pricing investigation as soon as possible. Following the announcement of the USDA's Packers and Stockyard Division investigation in August of 2019 ...