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Wednesday, December 16,
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Featured
Story:
The
Omnibus Spending Bill is over 2,000 pages- and
includes appropriations for the US Department of
Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration,
the Justice Department, the Commerce Department
and multiple other agencies. As signaled
at the end of last week- language is in
the Omnibus spending measure to remove beef and
pork from the mandatory Country of Origin labeling
law. It's interesting to note that no
mention of "COOL" or "Country of Origin" is
actually in the Omnibus- it just makes reference
to the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946-
rearranging several paragraphs in Section 281 of
that measure- and striking the words Beef and
Pork- and Ground Beef and Ground Pork.
Assuming the Congress does pass this
massive package- and the President signs it- it is
expected that Canada and Mexico will not begin to
impose tariffs totaling a billion dollars on an
annualized basis against the US. It
appears that the House will vote on the Omnibus on
Thursday- but the Senate will probably not get a
vote until the weekend. Beyond
COOL- there is prescriptive language that
the Secretaries of USDA and HHS will issue dietary
guidelines that are "based on significant
scientific agreement and limited in scope to
nutritional and dietary information."
Secretaries Vilsack and Burwell had already said
they would be doing this- but the budget deal
locks them into this commitment . The
measure does NOT have any environmental riders in
the funding language for EPA- which means that
there is no stopping EPA thru the budget process
for implementing WOTUS if the federal courts
remove their injunction in the days
ahead. If you want to review the 2,009
pages- it is online and you can click here to check it
out. There are also another 233 pages
that have to do with tax extenders and more- you
can read through this by clicking
here.
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FAA
Mandating All Small Drones Must Be Registered,
Starting December 21st
The
Federal Aviation Administration announced this
week that recreational users of unmanned aerial
systems (UAS), or drones, must register their
systems with the federal government via a new
website, which goes live Monday, Dec.
21. "Unmanned aerial systems can make
farms safer, more efficient, and more
environmentally friendly - and that helps
everyone," said Maryland farmer Chip
Bowling, president of National Corn
Growers Association. "If you're stuffing a
stocking with a hobby drone this holiday, take
advantage of the free registration window and get
it registered." Anyone using a hobby
UAS that weighs from 0.55 pounds up to 55 pounds
is required to register as a UAS operator.
Operators who purchased a UAS prior to Dec. 21
must register by Feb. 19. Anyone who purchase a
UAS after Dec. 21 must register before they first
fly outdoors. Drone registration will cost
$5 per operator; however, the registration fee
will be waived for the first 30
days.
More details on the
registration plans of the FAA are available
here.
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OSU's
Food and Ag Products Center Picks Top 16 Food
Trends for 2016
Food
safety, healthy eating, food waste and big flavors
are on the menu for 2016, as Oklahoma
State University's Robert M. Kerr Food &
Agricultural Products Center has picked
the hottest food trends for the upcoming
year. Andrea Graves,
FAPC business planning and marketing specialist,
said change is inevitable and trends help indicate
what is coming next. "Businesses need
to pay attention to trends in order to find new
growth opportunities and their target audiences,"
Graves said. "Understanding these trends help
businesses stay ahead of upcoming change, whether
it is regulatory or a new flavor profile. Also, in
most cases, consumers drive the trends and are
looking for products and companies that are
meeting their needs and lifestyles." Click here to review the
full list- two of the sixteen that jumped out
at me included the number two trend-
" Ethics"- and the number ten
trend- " Having a
Story." Regarding ethics- Graves
says "Consumers, particularly Millennials, are
choosing to support businesses that are perceived
as being ethical. They will purchase one product
over another regardless of price if they believe
the company has good core beliefs and appears to
practice those beliefs." And then there is
the need to give the consumers not just the facts
about the food product- but also a bit of the
sizzle- Andrea says that what "Having a Story is
all about- "It is not enough to just have a
well-branded and delicious food product. Consumers
in 2016 not only want to know where their food
comes from, but they also want to know the
background story behind the company that made
it." |
Bipartisan
Coalition of Congressmen Ask USDA to Designate
Cottonseed an Oilseed- Providing Cotton Farmers
with Safety Net Help
Suffering
under combined pressures of natural disasters and
predatory foreign competition by China, India, and
others, financially struggling American cotton
farmers received strong backing from Capitol Hill
today as 100 Members of the House of
Representatives urged U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture Tom Vilsack to use
legal authority provided under the 2014 Farm Bill
to provide crucial help. House
Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike
Conaway (R-TX), Ranking Member
Collin C. Peterson (D-MN),
General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
Subcommittee Chairman Rick
Crawford (R-AR), and Subcommittee Ranking
Member Tim Walz (D-MN) led a rare
coalition of rural and urban Democrats and
Republicans from across the country, inside and
outside of the cotton belt, in requesting that the
Secretary use his authority under the Farm Bill to
designate cottonseed an oilseed, allowing farmers
who produce cottonseed to access the same risk
management tools available under the Farm Bill to
other oilseed farmers. Three of the
five members of the Oklahoma House delegation
signed the letter- including former House Ag
Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, Tom Cole
and Mark Wayne Mullin. Read more
about this plea by the lawmakers by clicking
here.By the way- both the National Cotton
Council and the American Soybean
Association are giving two thumbs up to this
effort to include cottonseed as an oilseed.
Click on the group's name to see their
statements. |
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Willingness
to Pay for Beef Rises in December Food Demand
Survey- as Does Concern Over E. Coli
The
December 2015 edition of the Food Demand Survey
(FooDS) is now out, as produced by the Ag
Economics Department of Oklahoma State University.
Dr. Jayson Lusk is the
lead for the Food Demand Survey project in
Stillwater and here is his description of the
December report that he offers in his latest blog
entry on JaysonLusk.Com. Some
observations from the regular tracking
questions: Compared to last
month willingness-to-pay for all products,
particularly beef products, was
up. There was a
sizable drop in the proportion of respondents who
say they plan to eat out more in the next two
weeks. There was
again a big spike in awareness and concern for E.
Coli and Salmonella, likely as a result of the
publicity surrounding the Chipotle
outbreaks, There was
a large increase in visibility of GMOs in the news
in the past two weeks. There were several
Ad Hoc questions in the December survey- and you can review them by
clicking here- we also have links back to the
full listing of older survey results as well
embeded in our
webstory. |
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Cattle
on Wheat Pasture Need Nutritional Supplementation
According
to the Noble Foundation's Bryan
Nichols, there are three main types of
nutritional supplementation that are often
discussed in regard to stocker cattle grazing
wheat pasture: 1) minerals, 2) ionophores and 3)
energy feeds. Nichols says that wheat
forage is generally marginal to sufficient in
phosphorus and magnesium, high in potassium, and
low in calcium. The Noble Foundation has studied
both the value of mineral supplements and
ionophore use.Therefore, calcium is the mineral
that most often limits growth in cattle grazing
wheat. A 550-pound steer gaining 3 pounds per day
has a calcium requirement of 33 grams. If the
steer is consuming 16 pounds of forage, he is
deficient 7.5 grams. If a steer consumes 2 ounces
of mineral per day, then the calcium concentration
in the mineral package needs to be 13.2 percent.
If mineral intake is higher, calcium concentration
can be reduced. Providing an ionophore
to cattle grazing wheat pasture is a very
economical practice that all producers should
employ if not raising cattle for a "natural"
market. In the same Noble Foundation study,
inclusion of the ionophore monensin increased
average daily gain 0.2 pounds per day. This
increase in gain is additive to the gains shown
through mineral supplementation alone. Ionophore
intake should be targeted for 100 to 200
milligrams per day. An ionophore-containing
mineral will generally cost approximately $25 per
50-pound sack. If mineral intake is 3 ounces per
head per day, cost per animal is 9 cents per day.
Average daily gain is increased by 0.4 pounds per
day, which equates to an increase in revenue of 20
cents per head per day if grazing cattle on a cost
per pound of gain basis at 50 cents per pound.
Over a 105-day grazing period, each animal profits
an additional $11.55. Nichols also writes
about increasing energy in the diet of stocker
cattle- you can read his thoughts on that by clicking here.
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This
N That- Merial Being Swapped to BI, Big Iron
Wednesday and Rib Meat Pricing Diving Lower
Merial
Animal Health will be changing parent
companies by the latter part of next year- on
Tuesday, Sanofi announced they
would be dealing Merial to Boehringer Ingelheim in
return for BI's Consumer Health business.
Details of the swap are available here.
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It's a HUGE sale for this week at Big
Iron! That means the Big Iron folks
will be busy closing out this week's auction items
- all 942 items consigned. Bidding will
start at 10 AM central
time.
Click Here for the
complete rundown of what is being sold on this no
reserve online sale this
week.
If you'd like more information on
buying and selling with Big Iron, call District
Manager Mike Wolfe at
580-320-2718 and he can give you the full
scoop. You can also reach Mike via email by
clicking or tapping
here.
********* According
to Ed Czerwein with the USDA
Market News in Amarillo- the star of the primals
in recent days has been the Rib Meats. But-
that seems to be ending this week. Ed writes
" The Choice rib started to take its normal
seasonal decline Monday. It dropped over 20
dollars from the morning cutout until the closing
cutout which pulled the Choice cutout below 200.00
for the first time since Dec 2013.
"The Choice Rib was 384.49 at 11:00 am and
dropped to 363.32 by 3:00 pm. The closing
Choice cutout dropped 3.72 to 198.78. This is a
normal seasonal event after buyers push the Rib
high during Oct and Nov because Prime Rib is so
popular for employee Christmas Parties. The
collapse normally takes place after the first week
of Dec because buyers are done buying.
"Also the Rib is only about 11 % of the
total carcass and the other three major primals
represent 20-29 % each but the tremendous rally
has big impact on the Choice cutout. As you
can see the other primals have been going much
lower so the Rib has kept the Ch Cutout somewhat
stable until it starts down. If the other
primals do not rally now then the Choice Cutout
will take a big drop on the heels of the seasonal
decline of the
Rib." |
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