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Friday, February 19,
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Featured
Story:
Farmers
are much more optimistic about the potential of
their canola crop this year. Jeff
Scott, a farmer from Pond Creek, Oklahoma
serves as President of both Great Plains
Canola and the U.S. Canola
Association. He said this has been the
best growing season- to this point- since 2012.
The crop has received good moisture and the winter
has been mild. To finish out this year's crop, he
recommends farmers do enough that the crop can
produce good yields, so it can maximize
profitability. "Crop had a chance to
get well-established under good moisture
conditions and progress, so I feel like we're
sitting in really good condition right now," Scott
said. I interviewed Scott at
Canola College in Enid on
Thursday. Scott was answering questions about the
crop and the timeline for effective crop
management between now though
harvest. In presenting to almost
200 in attendance, he said the better start to the
growing season could lay the groundwork for more
acres in future growing
seasons. "Mother Nature's working with
us," Scott said. "Let's get through a good harvest
and I think that will start bringing some numbers
back up." Scott is finding a lot of
farmers wished they would have planted more canola
last fall. "Good weather conditions
and not being in a drought, like we've been in the
last three years, has really opened some eyes,"
Scott said. To listen to my interview with
Jeff Scott, click or tap
here.
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Oklahoma
State Representative Scott Biggs Responds to
Charges of Lying by Drew Edmondson and
HSUS
Yesterday
morning, State Representative Scott
Biggs was granted time to take a moment
of personal priviledge on the Oklahoma House Floor
to address what he calls "the recent attacks of
Drew Edmondson and HSUS."
Biggs told House members that earlier
in the week, he and Representative Brian
Renegar received a letter from former
Attorney General Drew Edmondson that scolded the
lawmakers over what the former AG called false
statements in support of House Bill
2250 in a News Release. Edmondson
claimed the statements that HSUS raised about a
million dollars from Oklahomans after the group
used the Moore tornado as a reason to ask donors
to help- and then spent only about a tenth of that
actually helping animals in the state in the
aftermath of the tornado were a lie.
Edmondson went on to say in the letter
that the HSUS advertising after the Moore tornado
"did not use the Moore tornado or promised relief
from the Moore tornado." In his
comments on the floor, Biggs responded by saying
that HSUS did make reference to the Moore tornado
in their solicitations to donors. He cited an
email sent after the tornado that talked about the
plight of animals after the tornado- and then
later asked for money. Biggs also cited
testimony given by HSUS to Congress after the
tornado about the amount of money given to the
organization in that time frame- an amount that
exceeded $1.7 million dollars. Biggs told his
colleagues that the HSUS then spent $110,000 of
that money on animals and shelters in the
region. We have posted the full comments of
Scott Biggs on our webstory- available here- that
also includes the letter sent by Edmondson to the
lawmakers.
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Research
Key to Backing Beef Says NCBA's Dr. Shalene
McNeill
Red
meat often gets a bad rap, that's why the beef
industry has a registered dietitian and
nutritional scientist standing up for the protein
source. Dr. Shalene McNeill
serves as the Executive Director for Nutrition
Education for the National Cattlemen's
Beef Association (NCBA). As the cattle
industry's nutritional spokesperson, she said her
role includes pushing back against regulatory
authorities that make accusatory statements
regarding red meat. She often sees people's
perceptions on beef are not based on science. NCBA
recently reviewed a report from the
International Agency for Research on
Cancer, a division of the World
Health Organization (WHO). The agency
decided to evaluate red and processed meat for
carcinogenicity to determine if the science
supported whether red and processed meat caused
cancer.
"Ultimately, they concluded
that red meat was a probable cause of cancer,"
McNeill said.
She said that
checkoff-funded research and other science has
concluded that single foods do not cause cancer
and it comes back to an overall unhealthy and
unbalanced diet that can increase your risk for
cancer. This report also raised concerns among the
public.
"The public really questioned
the reliability of that conclusion and we saw huge
backlash by the public not believing those
results," McNeill said.
We
had the chance to sit down with her while she was
in OKC- and you can listen to part two of
three part Beef Buzz series with her
by clicking
here.
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OSU
Animal Science Unveils New State-Of-The-Art Equine
Center
If
television's iconic Mr. Ed the talking horse were
present, he would be giving major props to several
key benefactors of Oklahoma State
University's new Charles and
Linda Cline Equine Teaching
Center. "Our new
multi-million-dollar center is state of the art
and has a teaching barn, small indoor arena,
classrooms, feed and tack rooms, a wash rack and a
treatment area, all made possible by the
generosity of horse enthusiasts who believe in
what we are doing in support of Oklahoma's equine
industry," said Clint Rusk, head
of the OSU Department of Animal
Science. The supporters so vital to
making the center a reality were honored by the
OSU Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural
Resources during center-dedication ceremonies on
Feb. 16. Click or tap here to
read more about the new OSU Equine Teaching
Center.
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OSU's
Kim Anderson Says Record World Wheat Production
Puts the Squeeze on Oklahoma Prices
World
wheat production has a big impact on the local
elevator price. On this weekend's edition of
SUNUP, Oklahoma State University
Grain Marketing Specialist Kim
Anderson said the United States only
accounted for 7.6 percent of the world's wheat
production this past year, so world wheat
production remains extremely important in
determining U.S. wheat prices. World
wheat production has set new records for the past
three straight years. Anderson said this past year
production totaled 27 billion bushels. The past
three consecutive years have been above 26 billion
bushels. Meanwhile, production has exceeded use
the past three years. World wheat use or
consumption this past year was at a record 26.1
billion bushels. That leaves 900 million bushels.
Anderson said over the past five years production
has exceed consumption by 300 million bushels on
average. Record wheat production has
put global wheat prices on a downward trend since
February 2013. Anderson said prices have been
trading sideways since August 2015 with prices
trading between $4.40 and $5.21. That has current
cash prices below $4 a bushel across much of
Oklahoma with prices ranging from $3.80 -
$4.10. Anderson also
discusses wheat harvest prices. Click or tap here to
listen to SUNUP host Lyndall
Stout interview OSU's Kim
Anderson and take a look at the
SUNUP show lineup for this
weekend.
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Miss
America 2016 Betty Cantrell Helps Launch Farm
Bureau's First Peas to the Table Contest
Miss
America 2016 Betty Cantrell and
Julie Tesch, executive director
of the American Farm Bureau Foundation for
Agriculture, introduced the First Peas to
the Table Contest. This new national competition
for schools encourages children in kindergarten
through fifth grade to plant, raise and harvest
peas this spring.
"It was an honor to
have Miss America 2016 Betty Cantrell join us in
launching the First Peas to the Table Contest,"
Tesch said. "We know from experience that getting
your hands dirty is the best way for children to
learn! Through this contest, we aim to provide
fun, hands-on learning opportunities for students
across the country," she said.
The
contest highlights the Foundation's latest Book of
the Year, "First Peas to the Table," by
Susan Grigsby. The Foundation
created the contest to help students understand
the importance of healthy foods and agriculture in
their everyday lives, and to increase their
understanding of how plants grow
The
contest runs March 1 - May 16. Click here to read
more about the contest.
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OSU
Wheat Breeder Brett Carver Honored Second Year in
a Row by Wheat Quality Council
The
Wheat Quality Council awarded Dr. Brett
Carver and the OSU Wheat
Improvement Team the top millers award in
2016 for the second year in a row. The award was
presented to Dr. Carver at the Wheat Council
Meetings in Kansas City this week. The
Wheat Quality Council which was established in
1938 has a long distinguished past of evaluating
wheat for milling and end quality use. The Wheat
Quality Council sponsors programs where different
varieties of wheat are grown side by side
locations throughout the various wheat production
areas across the U.S. The harvested wheats are
evaluated for milling and baking abilities and the
resulting flours are tested for-end quality uses
by a total of 17 cooperating bakers. The
work of Dr. Caver and the OSU Wheat Improvement
Team has been judged as the best once again by the
Council- read more about this honor by clicking here- and we
also have details about the newest wheat breeding
achievement of OSU- the announced release of
Stardust- a new hard white wheat developed for the
hard red winter wheat belt.
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