Extension

This week on SUNUP: 

• Paul Beck, OSU Extension beef cattle specialist, discusses the potential for plant stress to trigger prussic acid or nitrate toxicity in Oklahoma’s summer forages.
• SUNUP tags along for a bittersweet wheat harvest at Schieber Farms in Kay County, Oklahoma, where lifelong farmer Don Schieber says it’s time for him to retire. 
• SUNUP summarizes the Oklahoma Wheat Commission’s latest wheat harvest report.
• In the Mesonet Weather Report, state climatologist Gary McManus analyzes topsoil and subsoil moisture levels, as well as the temperature and precipitation outlooks.
• Derrell Peel, OSU Extension livestock marketing specialist, says tight supplies and high consumer demand are driving the market with continued higher prices.
• Mark Johnson, OSU Extension beef cattle breeding specialist, has several herd management tips that will help maximize profits at the sale barn.
• Jonathan Cammack, OSU Extension livestock entomologist, offers tick prevention tips for people and cattle.

 

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