Farm & Ranch

Barry Whitworth, DVM Area Food/Animal Quality and Health Specialist for Eastern Oklahoma On many beef cattle operations, the month of February is the beginning of the calving season. In the United States, nearly 60 percent […]

Growing up in southwestern Iowa, Denny McCoy has always been a cowboy. He’s a second generation rough stock rider, having learned the ropes from his father, Joe, and when offered a rodeo scholarship at Oklahoma […]

Barry Whitworth, DVM                                                 Justin Talley, PhD Area Food/Animal Quality and                                    Oklahoma State University Health Specialist for Eastern Oklahoma                   Extension Livestock Entomologist With the onset of winter, many external parasites tend to […]

By Shadi Nettles             Hello Oklahoma Farm and Ranch community. My name is Shadi Nettles and I am currently serving the Oklahoma FFA Association as the 2018-2019 Northwest Area Vice President. This fall, I left […]

By Everett Brazil III Herbicide resistance in weeds has become a major issue for producers across the United States, as they are increasingly seeing weeds growing long after the fields have been sprayed. Companies such […]

Barry Whitworth, DVM Area Food/Animal Quality and Health Specialist for Eastern Oklahoma Tetanus or “Lockjaw” is a condition caused by a neurotoxin produced by the bacteria Clostridium tetani.  The neurotoxin is very potent.  Most animals […]

By Everett Brazile III The fall season serves as harvest for several crops in Oklahoma, including cotton, soybeans, corn and grain sorghum, and many harvesters are out in the field to bring those crops to […]

By Mike Proctor, Noble Research Institute ag technology research associate / mdproctor@noble.org Characteristics: There are four hackberry species native to Oklahoma. The common species are hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) and sugarberry (C. laevigata). Netleaf hackberry (C. […]

Characteristics:  Winged sumac and smooth sumac are two common and closely related woody plants in Oklahoma. They are members of the family Anacardiaceae, which also includes cashews, pistachios, mango, poison ivy and poison sumac. Each […]

As autumn quickly approaches and the temperatures begin to decline, producers need to consider what type of lice control to initiate. Cattle lice cost producers millions of dollars each year in decreased weight gains and […]