Members of the nation’s two largest railway unions held conflicting votes on a key labor pact, muddying efforts by the Biden administration to avoid a strike when the labor peace agreement ends next month. The SMART Transportation division, the largest railway union under the tentative agreement with more than 37,000 members, narrowly rejected the deal […]

Winter is coming and hay inventories are low.  Given the current situation it can come as a relief to just find hay to purchase.  In 2022 many of us in Oklahoma find ourselves making hay purchases from out of state that are not the typical harvested forages we use in Oklahoma.  Regardless of the hay […]

The latest Cattle on Feed report pegs November 1 feedlot inventory at 11.706 million head, 98.0 percent of last year and the second consecutive monthly year over year decrease. The 12-month moving average of feedlot totals, which shows the average feedlot total for the previous year, peaked in September 2022 (Table 1). Feedlot inventories are expected to […]

Max Armstrong notes it was 75 years ago that a turkey was presented to the President which signals the start of the Thanksgiving season. Max shares some key stats about major turkey producers in the United States. The leader is Minnesota provides 18% of the birds produced followed by North Carolina, Arkansas, Indiana and Missouri […]