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Your Update from Ron Hays of RON
Thursday, August 12, 2021
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- So Far, So Good as Cattle Industry Looks to Increase Live Cattle Trade
- Double C Cattle Company of Oklahoma Honored with National Environmental Stewardship Award
- OSU Research Has Potential to Save Cattle Industry Millions
- USDA Invests $167 Million in High-Speed Broadband in 12 States
- NCBA's Danielle Beck on How the Biden Administration Plans on Funding Their Agenda
- Paul Beck on the Benefits of Rotational Grazing
- Dr. Art Douglas Provides His Final Long Term Outlook For Cattlefax and the US Cattle Industry at CattleCon21
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So Far, So Good as Cattle Industry Looks to Increase Live Cattle Trade
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Today’s report, from the 2021 Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, is a service of Farm Data Services of Stillwater.
Tanner Beymer, director of Government Affairs and Market Regulatory Policy at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, talks with yours truly about the 75% Plan. The plan was assembled about a year ago by NCBA members with the goal of achieving robust price discovery in the federal cattle market.
“It’s called the 75% Plan because we look at existing research that shows the number of cattle that must be traded on a negotiated basis per region to have robust price discovery,” Beymer said. “Given that we need to make substantial progress to get to that robust number, we wanted to start with some realistic benchmarks, so we (decided to aim for) 75%.”
Those numbers are then evaluated through two different lenses: the producer side and the packer participation from procurement side, Beymer said. If goals aren’t met, several minor triggers, called trigger silos, will trip, which will eventually trip major trigger silos. When enough major trigger silos are tripped, then a legislative or regulatory solution will be pursued.
“So far, third-quarter numbers look really good,” Beymer said. “Demand for beef is really high, both in the U.S. and abroad.”
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The vision of the Oklahoma Beef Council is to be a positive difference for Oklahoma's farming and ranching families and the greater beef community and its mission is to enhance beef demand by strengthening consumer trust and exceeding consumer expectations.
AND- check out this video from the Oklahoma Beef Council on some important things to know about how the Beef Checkoff operates.
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Double C Cattle Company of Oklahoma Honored with National Environmental Stewardship Award
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The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) announces that Double C Cattle Company is the Region IV winner of the 2020 Environmental Stewardship Award Program- we say congrats to Chuck and Ruth Coffey for this award!!! (we will have the chance to sit down with them later today- and will share that conversation with you a little later on)
Established in 1991, ESAP identifies outstanding land stewards in the cattle industry. Each year, seven families are recognized with regional Environmental Stewardship awards, with one being honored as the national winner. BCR was selected as the national winner from the following 2020 regional winners:
Region I - SK Herefords, New York
Region II - Southern Cross Farm, Mississippi
Region III - Euken-Myers Family, Iowa
Region IV - Double C Cattle Company, Oklahoma
Region V - Beatty Canyon Ranch, Colorado
Region VI - Boies Ranch, Nevada
Region VII - Johnson Farms, South Dakota
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OSU Research Has Potential to Save Cattle Industry Millions
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Oklahoma State University molecular biologists recently received a grant worth nearly $500,000 from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture for research that has the potential of saving the cattle industry millions of dollars.
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) costs the beef industry $540 million in direct costs and $5 billion in indirect costs each year. The viral disease can be caused when bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) infects the upper respiratory tract in cattle.
Previous studies have shown the BoHV-1 virus and modified live vaccines are a significant cause of abortions in cattle, according to Clint Jones, molecular viral pathobiologist and Sitlington Professor of Infectious Diseases with the OSU Department of Veterinary Pathobiology. He added that a synthetic drug called corticosteroid dexamethasone (DEX) also reactivates BoHV-1 and perhaps BRD.
Research has also shown that BRD is transmitted when the disease is going into its latency cycle. Scientists discovered that a pathway controlling BRD cellular reactions exists in calves infected with the disease compared to non-infected calves.
The project, in partnership with Peter Hoyt, OSU Ag Research professor and director of the OSU Center for Genomics and Proteomics, will include extensive analyses of how the virus genes and proteins are acting during latency and when induced out of latency and how a cow’s neurons are simultaneously responding to the BRD virus within them.
In other words, the research has the potential to create more effective vaccines that could prevent the virus from taking hold, thus saving cattle producers the cost of treating the disease or losing cattle to it.
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For our farmers who have either- always have had cotton on their farms- or those who have more recently have added the fiber crop to their operations- we have a new daily report starting to be heard on several of our Radio Stations- It's Called Cotton Talk- and we appreciate the Oklahoma Cotton Council for their support in making this a reality.
Click on the Button below to listen to our most recent report
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USDA Invests $167 Million in High-Speed Broadband in 12 States
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the USDA is investing $167 million in 12 states to deploy broadband infrastructure in rural areas without sufficient access to high-speed internet.
“Generations ago, the federal government recognized that without affordable access to electricity, Americans couldn’t fully participate in modern society and the modern economy. Broadband internet is the new electricity. It is necessary for Americans to do their jobs, to participate equally in school learning and health care, and to stay connected,” Secretary Vilsack said. “This is why President Biden’s American Jobs Plan prioritizes building ‘future-proof’ broadband infrastructure – like the investments we’re announcing today – in areas without sufficient access to broadband, so that we finally reach 100 percent high-speed broadband coverage.”
These investments will benefit rural people in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
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NCBA's Danielle Beck on How the Biden Administration Plans on Funding Their Agenda
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The Biden Administration is looking for cash to fund their brand-new, 1.2 trillion-dollar Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, the American Jobs Plan, and the American Families Plan(not to mention the Reconciliation Bill still to be rolled out this fall that could total $3,5 trillion) . Danielle Beck, senior director of government affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, says that search for ways to pay for their agenda could mean trouble for the cattle industry.
“In Washington D.C., it’s a lot of hurry up and wait, but the Senate just passed their infrastructure bill,” Beck said. “In the world of tax policy, it’s go-time right now.”
Beck explained, now that the bill has passed, the Senate is now considering a budget resolution, which will serve as the blueprint to move forward in how this bill will be funded.
Beck said they are aware of the critical provisions for cattle producers that could be on the chopping block, like stepped-up basis, restricting like-kind exchanges, or even changes to the estate tax. There have been talks about purported protections - particularly for agriculture producers.
Beck said, if stepped-up basis does not end up on the chopping block, something else will. In particular, estate taxes and/or the 99 Percent Act, which increased tax rates on decedent estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers, may be revisited and increased down the road, Beck said.
Today’s Beef Buzz, from the 2021 Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, is a service of Farm Data Services of Stillwater.
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Paul Beck on the Benefits of Rotational Grazing
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Rotational provides plants within pastures rest from repeated defoliation by grazers by separating the entire pasture unit into several paddocks. My preference is to have at least 4 paddocks with 7 day grazing event and 21-day rest for each grazing cycle, to get many of the benefits from rotational grazing; but I have worked with producers that have 30 paddocks and rotate large herds of over 200 cows daily.
Cattle grazing a single pasture at a moderate stocking rate have the advantage of being able to select their diet from every plant from the entire grazing area. This can lead to improved performance, because diet quality, protein, and digestible energy can be maximized by the grazing animal since there are few limits to their diet selection.
There are costs associated with rotational grazing such as fencing, development of water resources, and possibility of reduced animal performance, but there are also many advantages.
One producer told me his favorite benefit of rotational grazing is that when he goes to check cattle, he only has to look on 1/8th of the place and most of the time the cattle come find him to put them on fresh grass.
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Dr. Art Douglas Provides His Final Long Term Outlook For Cattlefax and the US Cattle Industry at CattleCon21
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CEO of Cattlefax, Randy Blach, announced after Dr. Art Douglas, Professor Emeritus at Creighton University, finished his long term outlook weather presentation on Wednesday morning at the 2021 Cattlefax Market Outlook Seminar that this was Art's final Outlook that he would deliver to the industry- fully retiring here in 2021.
To put things in perspective- Art's first presentation for Cattlefax was made in 1977. That was the year that Wray Finney of Ft. Cobb was the President of the American National Cattlemen's Association. Art mentioned at the end of his remarks on Wednesday that he was talking drought that year for parts of the west- just like he did here in 2021.
Later in the day- I had the chance to sit down with Art and talk about the outlook he offered earlier in the day for fall and winter- but also his love of weather and his admiration for the men and women in the cattle industry.
Listen to our visit with Dr. Art Douglas by clicking on the button below.
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Today's First Look:
Ron on RON Markets as heard on K101
mornings with cash and futures reviewed- includes where the Cash Cattle market stands, the latest Feeder Cattle Markets Etc.
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Wholesale Boxed Beef Prices continue to go higher- Choice Beef was up $5.48 and Select Beef was up $3.38 on Wednesday August 11th
Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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OKC West in El Reno had 6,573 head during their Tuesday and Wednesday sales of this week.
Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers sold steady to 2.00 lower. Demand moderate. Steer and heifer calves sold steady on very limited comparable sales. Demand moderate.
Click below for the complete closing report.
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Each afternoon we are posting a recap of that day's markets as analyzed by Justin Lewis of KIS futures - click below for the latest update on the Livestock and Grain Futures Trade..
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Okla Cash Grain:
Daily Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture- The report available after the close of the Futures Trade for that day.
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