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Off-farm income essential for ag economy

U.S. farmers’ and ranchers’ growing dependence on off-farm employment and income reveals the growing economic interconnection of rural communities and surrounding cities. According to a study by researchers at the University of Missouri, 82% of U.S. farm household income now comes from off-farm sources. The study was commissioned by CoBank and completed in partnership with […]

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Benefits of Early Culling Open Breeding Heifers

Early culling of open breeding heifers has several benefits to your cow-calf operations bottomline. Pregnancy can be diagnosed by palpation at 60 days and by ultrasound as early as 30 days, so now is the now is the time to take action and cull the open heifers.  In addition to reducing grazing pressure on drought stressed […]

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Wheat grazing prospects Dim | Beef Magazine

Most years, September would be occupied by lots of attention to wheat planting and budgets for winter grazing of stockers.However, the latest Drought Monitor shows that 99.97 percent of Oklahoma is abnormally dry or worse (D0-D4) with 48.81 percent in D3 and D4 (Extreme or Exceptional Drought). The three maps below from the Mesonet system show […]

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Farm Progress America, September 19, 2022

Max Armstrong shares that the Fast Recovery Act in California is causing trouble in the state, but is more far reaching than many think. Max offers insight on the new bill from Riley Lagesen, an attorney with Greenberg Taurig. Lagesen, who told Nation’s Restaurant News that this concept is likely to catch on in other […]

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Cheetara White Suffolk peaks at $3300 | Farm Weekly

Ellen Walker and Andrew de Gruchy, Warranine Park, Brookton, bought the top-priced Cheetara ram, paying $3300 for a White Suffolk. They are pictured with daughters Matilda, 1, and Zoe, 3, Elders Narembeen branch manager Colin Olgivie, Cheetara stud principal Nick Cheetham and Elders Narembeen livestock representative James King. Click to check the original article.

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New $265,0000 Charolais bull record more than doubles previous mark

A QUEENSLAND Charolais bull sold for $265,000 this morning, setting a new breed record and more than doubling the previous benchmark set only a week earlier. The Price family’s annual sale at their Moongool Charolais Stud, Yuleba smashed the previous benchmark, selling two-year-old poll bull Moongool Revolution to David and Lynette Whitechurch, Fourway Stud, Inverell […]

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