Cyber Monday is a recently coined term created by online retailers to refer to the Monday following Thanksgiving. It plays off the “Black Friday” concept. However, it does not mean that Monday is the busiest online shopping day during the holiday shopping season (although I heard a radio reporter refer to it as such today). According to [...]

Rise and shine … it’s 3:00 a.m. Days of planning and strategizing all come down to this. First stop - Walmart.  I’ve never done Walmart on Black Friday before. What makes it different: The lines are inside versus the usual wait-outside-in-the-cold-and-dark lines.  You would think that if people got there early enough, they would grab what [...]

We are beginning the full blog upgrades today, there will be a little down time off and on throughout the day as we update the backend of the blogs.  I am hoping it will all be done today but there is a chance it will run into Friday. Thank you for your patience and placing a [...]

Oklahoma’s wheat farmers are back in the fields planting their 2009 crop, reports Mark Hodges, executive director of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission. As of Monday, 44 percent of the new wheat crop had been planted, leaving farmers  on a pace of about 4 percent behind the five-year average for planted acres at this time.  Said Hodges:   This is [...]

Mark Hodges, Oklahoma Wheat Commission executive director, will appear on CNBC financial news network at 1:20 p.m. CDT on Friday to discuss the transportation challenges faced by state wheat farmers this year. A lack of rail cars during harvest was cited by some grain elevator operators as a bottleneck in the delivery of grain this past [...]

Well, I’ve got my first Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission annual meeting under my belt.   Based on what I’ve heard, this is what I think oil and natural gas producers want the country to know about the job they do:   They want the country to know the industry faces increasing competition from large foreign, government-backed oil [...]