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Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.3 million head on August 1, 2020. The inventory was 2 percent above August 1, 2019. This is the highest August 1 inventory since the series began in 1996.

Oklahoma Farm Bureau hosted live webinar on Monday, Aug. 3 featuring Gov. Kevin Stitt regarding the Oklahoma Commission on Cooperative Sovereignty, created to address concerns and make recommendations to the state and to Congress after the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings in McGirt v. Oklahoma and Sharp v. Murphy.

The President of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Ross Wilson, believes that a reasonable outcome came out of the intense six hour Live Cattle Marketing Committee meeting earlier this week in Denver.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an analysis on Wednesday of market conditions in the context of the ongoing beef market investigation.

Our latest Ag Perspectives Podcast features a Thursday morning conversation with Oklahoma Senator James Lankford. Legislation these days has to have a catchy name- so we discuss JUSTICE, CARES and HEROES with the Senator.