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Story:Weekend
of Rain Washes Away At Least Some of the Oklahoma
Drought
Oklahoma
had a weekend of almost non stop
precipitation. The abundant rainfall has
gone a long way to washing away the abnormally dry
to moderate drought (and even pockets of severe
drought) in Oklahoma. Rainfall totals in excess of
four inches were seen in the southeast, southwest
and even extreme northwest parts of the state.
The winner in the total rainfall derby is
Tipton, with just over six inches
of rainfall, with Medicine Park
and Ringling both over five
inches of rain- and Pauls Valley
just below the five inch threshold at 4.96 inches
of rain. The Mesonet 3 Day Rainfall Map is
seen below. As of five am, only eight Mesonet
stations across Oklahoma have had less than an
inch of rain since last Friday
morning.  Perhaps one of the
remarkable numbers on the map above is
Boise City, with 4.56 inches of
rain. Not far from there,
@jerodmcdaniel on Twitter posted an amazing video
from the flooding on TeePee Creek north of
Texhoma- click here for our
webstory that includes that video. We
mentioned drought relief in the headline- click here for last
Thursday's Drought Monitor to remind you where the
Drought and Abnormally Dry ratings were- the
Drought Monitor Map will look a lot different this
coming Thursday- I can hear our State
Climatologist Gary McManus offering an AMEN to
that!
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NACD
Urges Senate Leaders to Support Federal Lands
Invasive Species Control, Prevention and
Management Act
The
National Association of Conservation Districts
(NACD) submitted a letter to Senators Lisa
Murkowski and Maria
Cantwell, the Chairman and Ranking
Members of the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources (respectively), urging them to bring up
and pass favorably out of committee, S. 2240, the
Federal Lands Invasive Species Control, Prevention
and Management
Act.
Current federal
invasive species management lacks effective
interagency communication and often results in
contradictory recommendations and practices which
impede the ability of conservation districts to
implement effective invasive species control on
the local level. The proposed bill would
facilitate greater collaboration and cooperation
between and across agencies and entities and help
alleviate undue barriers to the work of fighting
invasive species locally, state-wide, regionally
and at the national
level.
Proper
management is critical to the success and overall
health of both private and public land.
Invasive species push out native species,
add undue stress to the ecosystems, and harm local
communities' economic and human health.
In 2005, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
reported that invasive species cost the U.S. more
than $120 billion a year. Combined with the Bureau
of Land Management's report that invasive plants
have been spreading across public lands at a rate
of 4,600 acres a day, only adds to need or a
change in the federal government's invasive
species management practices.
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Ambassador
Michael Froman Continues TPP
Discussion
While
most current presidential candidates are opposed
to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, several sectors
of the agricultural industry believe it is the key
to leveling the playing field with countries like
Australia, who has a bilateral trade agreement
with Japan and pays significantly less tariff than
the U.S.
U.S.
Ambassador Michael Froman says that there
is not a specific timetable in place to present
TPP to Congress, but work is being done to ensure
the legislation is ready when the window of
opportunity opens.
Froman
serves as the U.S. Trade Representative and says
that although other countries are interested in
joining the partnership, the focus remains on
ratification among the original 12 countries - the
United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile,
Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru,
Singapore and Vietnam - before inviting others to
the table.
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National
Sorghum Producers Call on EPA to Postpone
Chlorpyrifos Meeting
National
Sorghum Producers and more than 40 other
agricultural associations called on the
Environmental Protection Agency to postpone a
three-day meeting that starts tomorrow (April
19-21, 2016) of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory
Panel (FIFRA SAP) scheduled to review potential
risks to human health from chlorpyrifos, the
active ingredient in
Lorsban. According
to a Federal Register
notice, the meeting will review if study
data, based primarily on studies by Columbia
University, are sufficient for a new model of
determining potential health risks to
humans. In the
letter, the groups called the meeting a rushed
attempt to "fundamentally alter its process for
evaluating potential risk and regulation of
pesticides."Read the full letter sent
to EPA Administrator Gina
McCarthy. |
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Top
5 Reasons Why Maryland's Neonic Ban is a Bad
Idea
Bayer
Crop Science's Jeff Donald
recently wrote an op-ed in opposition of a bill
banning the use of neonics in
Maryland.
"We're
disappointed that the Maryland legislature chose
not to stand up for sound science and the rights
of Maryland's homeowners to self-protect their
lawns and gardens from destructive pests," Donald
said in his editorial.
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Wheat
Pathologist Dr. Bob Hunger on Disease Status of
Oklahoma Wheat Crop- Anticipates Rains Washed Away
Aphids
Oklahoma
State University's Dr. Bob
Hunger, Extension Wheat Pathologist in
the Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology
has released his latest wheat disease findings-
released via email on Saturday, April
16th. "I had limited trips outside of
Stillwater this past week, and only was able to
contact one County Educator before writing this
today. Wheat around Stillwater is mostly at
various stages of head emergence. I did see a few
anthers on scattered heads, but not many. By
contrast, Aaron Henson (County
Educator; Tillman County in south-central OK)
indicated wheat in his area is mostly at
flowering. "During this past week, I had
several calls about spraying wheat with a
fungicide. Although rust (stripe and leaf rust)
didn't appear to increase this past week,
conditions reverted to being more favorable for
stripe rust development with rainfall, increased
dews, and favorable temperature. With more rains
and cool temps in the forecast, stripe rust could
"reactivate" again, and leaf rust will start to
come into the picture. Wheat is now at the point
where it will quickly move past the stage (the
start of flowering) where it can be sprayed with
most fungicides." Click here to read more
from Dr. Hunger as he also offers his thoughts
on aphids and the weekend rains- and other
possible issues from a disease perspective that
may still offer problems for this 2016
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This
N That: Congrats to Round Pen Winner, FFA Closing
In and Chinese Cotton Sales Coming
Congrats
to Tammy Neher of Blanchard- her name
drawn from about a thousand entries that we
received over the three days of the 2016 Oklahoma
City Farm Show.
Tammy
has won the Priefert Round Pen that was used at
this year's show by Horse Trainer Scott
Daily.
Thanks
for all of you that registered- and I deeply
appreciate the dozens of comments we received
during this year's Farm Show about how much you
read our daily email- and the value that you
believe it delivers.
We
have done this daily communication with you since
the summer of 2008- and it amazes me how many
times we hear from folks like yourself about how
much you enjoy it. All I can say- Thanks and we
are honored that what we produce daily
matters.
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We are
literally a week away from the 90th Annual Oklahoma FFA
Convention that happens in downtown Oklahoma
City next week.
Ahead
of that- we wish the hundreds of Oklahoma FFA
members who are competing this coming Friday and
Saturday in the State Interscholastics and CDE
Contests the very best- those events are in
Stillwater.
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China
will begin sales of cotton stockpiles next month,
and the auctions will continue through
August. Chinese officials announced last
week total sales will not exceed two million
metric tons. China plans to gradually reduce
stockpiles to a "reasonable" level and prices are
expected to be more attractive than in auctions
last year.
China tried to sell one million
tons of cotton last year but fell far short,
selling only 63,000 some tons because buyers
considered the asking price too high. China will
sell most of the cotton to domestic buyers,
but the sale will likely impact global
prices by reducing foreign cotton
demand from Chinese buyers, according to the Wall
Street Journal.
China ended up with about
60 percent of the world's cotton stockpiles after
it introduced a program in March of 2011 that buys
domestic cotton at a set price above those set by
the global market.
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