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Pittsburg County 4-H Educator Gregory Owen honored by Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service

Jan 11, 2018

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – Gregory Owen of the Pittsburg County Extension Office received one of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service's most prestigious honors on Jan. 10 when he was named a 2018 recipient of the statewide organization's

Custer County’s Radonna Sawatzky named 2018 Distinguished Educator recipient by Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service

Jan 11, 2018

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – "For us, it's personal" says the highly accurate testament of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, whose county educators live and work in the counties and communities they serve; and Custer County Extension Educator

Pesticide applicator CEUs available through Jan. 17-18 Red River Crops Conference in Altus

Jan 10, 2018

ALTUS, Oklahoma – Agricultural pesticide applicators in southwestern Oklahoma and the Texas Rolling Plains region can pick up needed continuing education credits by participating in the Red River Crops Conference Jan. 17-18 in Altus.

Cattle producer profitability likely to be squeezed in 2018

Jan 9, 2018

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – Continued growth in beef production in 2018 is likely to pressure cattle and beef prices, with domestic and international beef demand being critical factors affecting prices.

Time to begin early evening feeding of cows

Jan 9, 2018

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – Cow-calf producers who ensure adequate supervision at calving can have a significant effect on reducing calf mortality, always important but increasingly so with the higher price of live calves at sale time.

Cow-calf producers should start obtaining colostrum now

Dec 21, 2017

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – Cow-calf operators should start locating, obtaining and storing several doses of colostrum or colostrum replacer sure to come in handy before the first heifers start to go into labor this spring.

Repeatability of calving difficulty in young heifers an often-repeated question over the years

Dec 21, 2017

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – Questions about the repeatability of calving difficulty in young heifers seems to crop up annually, not unsurprisingly given the money invested in growing the heifer into a two-year-old cow.

Region’s premier canola event set for 2018 in Enid

Dec 20, 2017

ENID, Oklahoma – Agricultural producers interested in learning how to maximize their canola production and profitability should register now to attend the Jan. 19 Canola College in Enid.

Providing for the nutritional needs of older horses may require management changes

Dec 20, 2017

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – We are what we eat, goes the old cliché, and the saying is as true for horses as for people, especially as the years pile up.

Positive news for all meats in OSU’s December 2017 Food Demand Survey

Dec 19, 2017

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – Consumers' willingness-to-pay experienced a not unexpected bump as the holiday season kicked into gear, with steak seeing the largest percent increase among meat products compared to one month ago.