By Michael Newell October 1 is the opening day for several major archery hunting seasons in Oklahoma. And prospects are looking good for most of those seasons, experts with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation [...]

Barry Whitworth, DVM Area Food/Animal Quality and Health Specialist for Eastern Oklahoma  Contagious Ecthyma (CE) is a highly contagious viral disease found throughout the world wherever sheep are kept.  The virus primarily affects young lambs [...]

Oklahoma FFA Executive Secretary Trevor Lucas For more than three decades, the Oklahoma FFA organization was spearheaded by Executive Secretary Kent Boggs. When Mr. Boggs announced his retirement last spring, the search was on to [...]

By Summer McMillen We work cattle a lot here on the ranch, whether we are moving them to new pastures, branding or weaning. There seems to be a different “event” for every season that our [...]

By Judy Wade Farmers, ranchers, cowboys, cowgirls and even lots of city folks can thank Levi Strauss for those denims they slide into every day. Whether it’s Levis, Wrangler, Cinch, Round House or some other [...]

Saturday, October 12 at 10 AM – Cushing, OK 320 TOTAL ACRES This is the one! A ranch with an ideal set up. Country home, barns, stalls, arena, ponds, fenced & cross fenced, great location [...]

By Garrett Metcalf, DVM Sarcoids are the most common cutaneous skin tumor of horses that come in various forms with varying degrees of virulence. Sarcoids are small gray to cherry red tissue that appears similar [...]

Longhorns made an indelible imprint on the 19th-century Western landscape. Between 1866 and 1890, more than 10 million cattle were driven on the Chisholm and other trails out of Texas.  In his classic 1941 book [...]

Impress your friends with these 40 interesting tidbits of Oklahoma trivia. The first capital of Oklahoma was in Guthrie, but was moved later to Oklahoma City following a vote of the people.Turner Falls Park in [...]

By Ddee Haynes In October of 2017, I wrote an article on Hagen Nielsen. Hagen at the time was five-years-old. Let me take you back to the day I first met this little blond-haired, blue-eyed [...]

By Kevin Mink Imagine this scenario. A homeowner decides to create a pollinator garden in their front yard. After removing the monoculture of Bermuda grass, the yard is filled with an array of native flowering [...]

By Garrett Metcalf, DVM Almost every horse person has heard of contracted tendons in a horse, but flexural limb deformities (FLD) are a little more complicated than just tight tendons. There are different locations or [...]

By Lanna Mills Are you looking for somewhere fun for the entire family without having to travel long distances? If so, I urge you to visit the Medicine Park and Wichita Mountain area. There is [...]

By Bryan Painter Fact is more than 150 years of tradition run through the Caddo, Okla., operation of the Stuart Ranch. Plus, the Chisholm Trail runs through the painting-perfect pastures of the family’s Waurika ranch [...]

Barry Whitworth, DVM Area Food/Animal Quality and Health Specialist for Eastern Oklahoma  Recently, several areas of Oklahoma have experienced record flooding.  On rare occasions in Oklahoma, the disease anthrax has been associated with abnormally wet [...]

2020 Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Lady in Waiting It started with the revival of a long ago dream, and culminated with a crown. On June 8, 2019, Kylie Myers was crowned as the 2020 Miss Rodeo [...]

By Michael Newell             Let’s paint the scene. A barefoot, no shirt, boy laying on a creek bank with a cane pole and length of line dangling in the dirty water. Something strait out of [...]

By Lacey Newlin 12 servings Time: 4.5 hours Ingredients 1 Lemon Lovers Pound Cake cut into 1-inch cubes 1/2 cup granulated sugar1/2 cup fresh lemon juice1 2.7 oz box Dream Whip3 cup very cold whole milk divided2 3.4 oz boxes instant lemon pudding mix16 oz frozen whipped topping OR 4 cups [...]

By Summer McMillen If you’ve missed the sign that I carry around my neck that says “I’m a rodeo wife” then allow me to reintroduce myself… I am Summer, ranch wife extraordinaire and rodeo wife [...]