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Here's your morning farm news headlines from the Director of Farm Programming for the Radio Oklahoma Network, Ron Hays. We are proud to have KIS Futures as a regular sponsor of our daily email update. KIS Futures provides Oklahoma Farmers & Ranchers with futures & options hedging services in the livestock and grain markets- Click here for the free market quote page they provide us for our website or call them at 1-800-256-2555. When you call them- ask them about their brand new Iphone App which provides futures quotes for your Iphone.

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Oklahoma currently has 861,000 acres under contract in the CRP with 211,000 acres set to expire on September 30, 2010. Tolle noted, "With the acceptance of the 225,000 plus acres Oklahoma will be able to maintain the environmental benefits we have built in past years under the CRP."
The number of acres accepted by USDA in Oklahoma puts the state as the fourth largest CRP state for this signup. Nationally, Texas, Colorado and Kansas had far and away the largest number of acres enrolled- each with more than 600,000 acres accepted.

CRP is a voluntary program that assists farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers to use their environmentally sensitive land for conservation benefits. Producers enrolling in CRP plant long-term, elected vegetative covers in exchange for rental payments, cost-share, and technical assistance. Participants voluntarily remove the land from agricultural production by entering into long-term contracts for 10 to 15 years. In Oklahoma, the average rental rate per acre for this signup is about $34. The Oklahoma figure is well under the national average per acre rate of $46- but in line with the rental rates of the plains states.

Click on the LINK below for more on the CRP signup nationally as well as here in Oklahoma.

Click here for the full rundown on the general signup of the CRP Announced This Week by USDA.

The Animal Science Professor from Colorado State University is spending all day today in Stillwater- with the highlight being a seminar planned for this afternoon at 2 PM at OSU- the public is invited and it's free to see the lady who has had an Emmy Award winning movie made about her life.

Earlier this summer, she was on the program at the National Junior Angus Show. The Angus Association folks have some video Q&A with Dr. Grandin about her views on animal handling and well being- thought you might enjoy checking out that conversation as a preview of what she will be talking about today on campus in Stillwater.

Click here for the video with Dr. Temple Grandlin About Animal Handling in Today's World.

John Masswohl of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association says - a big part of the argument is to demonstrate there has been an economic disadvantage to marketing Canadian livestock in the United States because of this law. The Canadians claim the law has cost its beef industry an estimated 300-million dollars and cut live hog exports almost in half. Most of the impact on the Canadian beef industry has been in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The Canadians claim U.S. livestock buyers have paid lower prices for Canadian cattle because they incur additional costs because of this law and there only way to recover those costs is to pay less for Canadian cattle. The WTO isn't expected to issue its ruling until next July, and whichever way the ruling goes- it will likely be appealed.

Click here for more on the arguments advanced this week by Canada in Geneva at the WTO

For Oklahoma, Gayle White of Frederick, Okla. will serve as board member. White has held the alternate board member position on NPB since Jan. 1, 2008. She is the owner/operator of White Farm and Ranch with her husband Joe D., chairman of the Oklahoma Peanut Commission, and has been engaged in peanut production for almost 25 years. They grow Virginia peanuts, cotton, corn, wheat and raise angus cattle. The Whites' three children are also involved in farming and agriculture. White has served as president of the Tillman County Farm Bureau Women's Committee, president of Ag Boosters and publicity chair of the Tillman County Junior Livestock Show board of directors. She has also served on the board of directors for the Oklahoma City Sirloin Club and the County Resolution Committee Farm Bureau.

Les Crall of Weatherford, Okla. has been appointed as alternate board member for Oklahoma. Crall has been in peanut farming for almost 15 years and currently serves as vice chair of the Oklahoma Peanut Commission. He is also the associate dean for the School of Business & Technology at Southwestern Oklahoma State University where he teaches business law and accounting.

USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service provides oversight and monitors the operations of the National Peanut Board in accordance with the Commodity Promotion Research and Information Act of 1996 and the Peanut Promotion, Research and Information Order. The Board is authorized to collect assessments from domestic producers, who pay the rate of one percent of the total value of all farmers' stock peanuts sold. These assessments allow the Board to conduct generic promotion and research for consumer and producer information, as well as maintain, develop and expand markets for peanuts.

Click for more on these appointements to the National Peanut Board as made by Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack

The National Agricultural Law Center at the University of Arkansas is hosting a series of workshops, including a webinar, for poultry and livestock producers. At these workshops, staff attorneys will provide an overview of GIPSA's proposed rule changes for poultry and livestock, review the UDSA rule-making process, explain how to submit comments on the proposed rules, and include a question and answer session. The webinar will be hosted via eXtension for participants around the country. All workshops are free and open to the public.

While the three on site locations are all in Arkansas- none of the three are that far from the state border. If you live in the eastern half of the state- you may well want to consider attending the one closest to you. Anyone with a good internet connection will be able to get involved in the National Webinar. Click on the LINK below for more details about these workshops and their dates and locations. AND Remember- you can catch up on many of the details of the GIPSA Rule by going to our "Primer" on our website- we call it READ The RULE- Click here to check it out.

Click here for the brochure that tells more about these workshops.

After two years of work, Angus Genetics Inc. (AGI) and Merial now have an Angus-specific Igenity® genomic profile derived from a High Density Whole Genome Scan with 50,000 markers (HD WGS). Genomic-enhanced EPDs are calculated using the highly predictable American Angus Association database along with the Igenity profile for Angus results to provide a more thorough characterization of economically important traits and improve accuracy on young animals.

We zero in on some of this work in bringing genomic information down to the ranch level on today's Beef Buzz- click on the LINK below to check out the first part of our visit with Dr. Sally Northcutt of the Angus Association (and of course a former staffer at OSU). The Beef Buzz series is heard daily on great radio stations that are a part of the Radio Oklahoma Network- and you can also hear Beef Buzz shows on our website- just click on the Beef Buzz button on the left hand side of any page.

Click here for this latest Beef Buzz featuring Sally Northcutt of the American Angus Association

Christi Collins, who's helping with the 2010 sale event, writes in their sale catalog that "Over 1000 cattle will sell in an effort to make this a great sale event, full of generations of Ratcliff Ranch leading cow families and genetics. The Ratcliff program is committed to continuing in the registered Angus and SimAngus business. All of the donor dams in production will be retained and the embryo program is full steam ahead. This offering of cows is an effort to present a powerfull set of cattle for this sale and to supply the current demand for good Angus and black hided animals."

If you make this sale- you'll have a chance to learn more about their new value added concept they are working on called "Heritage Ranch Premium Sourced Verified Beef." Early sales of this product has been through restaurants in a couple of states and the feedback has been great. Joe Unger with Unger Meat Company is working with Ratcliff Ranches on this- he will be at the sale and can tell you more. There is also more on this value added enterprise in the sale catalog which can be found at the LINK below. Click on it and it will tell you more about the sale planned for this Saturday.

Click here for more on the Ratcliff Ranches Fall Event Sale on Saturday September 18.

We also invite you to check out our website at the link below to check out an archive of these daily emails, audio reports and top farm news story links from around the globe.

Click here to check out WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com

Here are some links we will leave in place on an ongoing basis- Click on the name of the report to go to that link:
Our Daily Market Wrapup from the Radio Oklahoma Network with Ed Richards and Tom Leffler- analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous Day-
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.
Previous Day's Wheat Market Recap- Two Pager From The Kansas City Board of Trade looks at all three US Wheat Futures Exchanges with extra info on Hard Red Winter Wheat and the why of that day's market.
Daily Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- As Reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture. <
The National Daily Feeder & Stocker Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
The National Daily Slaughter Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
Finally, Here is the Daily Volume and Price Summary from the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.