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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oklahoma's latest farm and ranch news
Your Update from Ron Hays of RON for Tuesday March 22, 2011
A
service of Producers Cooperative Oil Mill, Midwest Farm Shows and Big Iron
OnLine Auctions!
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-- Awfully Dry
-- Canola Waiting on a Rain- Yield Potential Is Still Good for
2011
-- Sale of Champions Wraps Up the 2011 Oklahoma Youth Expo
-- Final Pictures Now Up from the 2011 Oklahoma Youth Expo
-- Phil Seng of USMEF Remains Upbeat About Beef and Pork Exports to
Japan
-- Clay Burtram Newest Member of the Oklahoma Beef Council
-- If you live in the Stillwater Area- or IF You Go to Stillwater
From Time to Time- Check our Pupalup
-- Let's Check the Markets!
Howdy Neighbors! 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 Big Iron Unreserved Online Auctions as one of our sponsors of the daily Email. Their next auction is Wednesday, March 23- featuring Low Hour, Farmer Owned Equipment. Click here for their website to learn more about their Online Farm Equipment Auctions. We are also excited to have as one of our sponsors for the daily email
Producers Cooperative Oil Mill, with 64 years of progress through
producer ownership. Call Brandon Winters at 405-232-7555 for more
information on the oilseed crops they handle, including sunflowers and
canola- and remember they post closing market prices for canola and
sunflowers on the PCOM
website- go there by clicking here. We invite you to listen to us on great radio stations across the
region on the Radio Oklahoma Network weekdays- if you missed this
morning's Farm News - or you are in an area where you can't hear it- click
here for this morning's Farm news from Ron Hays on RON. | |
Awfully Dry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I realize that
we all already knew that statement to be true- but the latest Oklahoma
Crop Weather Update sums up the feelings of desperation some are starting
to feel. "The need for rain continues to be the number one concern of
producers across the state. According to the March 15th U.S. Drought
Monitor, over 80 percent of the state was experiencing moderate or severe
drought conditions with a portion of southwest Oklahoma in an extreme
drought. Little rain fell over the past week and the Southwest and South
Central districts received no rainfall. Small grains and grasses are
suffering due to the drought and it is affecting plans for spring
planting. Most central and southwestern counties are still under burn
bans. Topsoil and subsoil moisture conditions continued to worsen from the
previous week with 81 percent of topsoil and 84 percent of subsoil rated
short to very short."
In the case of our 2011 wheat crop- "Small grain crops were rated mostly in the fair to poor range. Some producers are having fields appraised for insurance or considering grazing out the remaining wheat. Wheat jointing was 40 percent complete by week's end, a 15 point increase from the week prior." That is also five percentage points ahead of the five year average on the jointing of the wheat plant- which often happens when we are stressed by dry conditions. Specifically- our wheat crop conditions now stand at 43% poor to very poor, 33% fair, 21% good and 3% excellent. Texas is suffering even more as they are at 56% poor to very poor, 30% fair, 13% good and 1% excellent. Kansas has improved some- mostly in central counties that have had some snow earlier and rain since then- statewide, they have ratings of 37% poor to very poor, 36% fair, 25% good and 2% excellent. Click on the LINK below for the latest crop weather update for Oklahoma for more details of pasture and range conditions as well as spring seedbed preparation. Click here for the latest Oklahoma Crop Weather Update from NASS at USDA | |
Canola Waiting on a Rain- Yield Potential Is Still Good for 2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The good news
is that the 2011 winter canola crop is looking really good north of I-40-
and still looks okay even in southwestern Oklahoma- but must have a rain
within the next week to ten days in order to be able to salvage a fairly
good yield. That's the opinion of PCOM Agronomist Heath Sanders, who
talked with us Monday afternoon at PCOM's headquarters in Oklahoma City.
We are starting to bloom in some of those fields in southwestern Oklahoma where the canola plants are stressed due to little or no rainfall. Further north, we are at the "bolting" stage in many of our canola fields. Click on the LINK below and go to our webstory where you can watch our latest edition of Canola TV with Heath Sanders of PCOM- as we talk about current canola crop conditions here in Oklahoma. Click here for our Canola TV segment with Heath Sanders of PCOM- talking Canola Crop Conditions. | |
Sale of Champions Wraps Up the 2011 Oklahoma Youth Expo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As they
usually do, the Grand Champions led off the 2011 Oklahoma Youth Expo Sale
of Champions at the State Fair Arena in Oklahoma City. And, for the second
year in a row, several groups went together together to buy the "Grands"
of the show.
The Grand Champion Steer, owned by Ryan Stults of Luther FFA, sold for
$50,000 and was purchased by a group that included Express Ranches, Bank
of Western Oklahoma, First Liberty, Tener's, Chain Land & Cattle
Company, McAfee & Taft and Robyn Printing & Promotions and Hartzog
Conger Cason & Neville. The pricetag on this year's steer was the same
as a year ago. The owner of theGrand Champion Market Lamb, Kayla Brown of Merritt FFA,
had an extra advocate for her animal- Lt. Governor Todd Lamb. Lamb pleaded
with buyuers to make sure we got top dollar for this "lamb" and he helped
pull in an extra thousand dollars for the 2011 winner- which ended up
being purchased for $21,000 (up a thousand dollars from 2010 for the Grand
Lamb) and bought by Touchstone Energy, Bank of Western Oklahoma and the
Choctaw Nation. | |
Final Pictures Now Up from the 2011 Oklahoma Youth Expo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Over 880
pictures are now up on our Flickr page from the 2011 Oklahoma Youth Expo-
taken over the eleven days of the show- from the first weekend of the goat
show and the breeding animals to the Legislative Night to the market
animals to the Grand Champion selections and scholarship presentations to
the Sale of Champions.
We were there for all of it- snapping away- and we invite you to go and take a look at the 2011 OYE in pictures. Click on the LINK below to check them out and enjoy the OYE again now that it is history. By the way- you can browse our other "sets" of pictures as well- including last year's Oklahoma Youth Expo, National FFA Convention, Tulsa State Fair and the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship that was held in 2010 at the Oklahoma National Stockyards. All of that and more can be seen in pictures on our RON Flickr page. | |
Phil Seng of USMEF Remains Upbeat About Beef and Pork Exports to Japan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the
immediate aftermath of Japan's earthquake/tsunami disaster, many observers
speculated that U.S. meat exports to Japan would decline significantly.
But as U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) President and CEO Philip Seng
explains, the vast majority of Japan's population has not been displaced,
and their long-term demand for U.S. beef and pork should not be adversely
affected. He goes on to explain that the region impacted by the tsunami
represents a fairly significant portion of Japan's domestic livestock
production, which could result in an increased need for imported meat.
With these factors in mind, USMEF is maintaining its original 2011 beef and pork export forecasts to Japan. The beef export forecast calls for 153,000 metric tons valued at $790 million - an increase of 23 percent over last year. On the pork side, the forecast remains at 447,000 metric tons valued at $1.7 billion - a 3 percent increase over 2010. We get into that on today's Beef Buzz with Phil Seng- click on the LINK below to jump to our website and check out Phil Seng's perspective on the situation in Japan. | |
Clay Burtram Newest Member of the Oklahoma Beef Council ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stillwater
businessman and Oklahoma State University graduate Clay Burtrum has been
named to the board of directors of the Oklahoma Beef Council.
Burtrum is vice president of operations for Farm Data Services, a Stillwater firm that provides specialized accounting, consulting and advisory services to the agricultural industry. He is also vice president/co-owner of Burtrum Cattle LLC, a stocker and cow/calf operation located in North Central Oklahoma. He holds a bachelor's degree from OSU in animal science biotechnology. He has been active as a cattle industry leader, having served as a director for the North Central District of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association. He is an alumnus of the Young Cattlemen's Conference, an annual leadership development training program hosted by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, located in Denver, Colo. He is also a graduate of the Masters of Beef Advocacy curriculum, a national program to train grassroots cattlemen to explain modern beef production's sound animal welfare and environmental conservation practices, particularly to urban consumers who, through the generations, have lost connections to farming and rural lifestyles. | |
If you live in the Stillwater Area- or IF You Go to Stillwater From Time to Time- Check our Pupalup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pupalup is a
new discount service for the Stillwater area- and you may want to check
out their first deal for folks who like barbecue. There are a lot of these
websites/email services that are out there- but Pupalup is a local startup
business in Stillwater- and they will be offering deals a couple of times
a week in the days to come.
Their very first deal is for Bad Brad's Bar-B-Q, located at 3317 East 6th Ave. in Stillwater. For $15, you get a certificate for $30 worth of Bad Brad's barbecue. To check the deal out- click on the link below. If you're gonna be eating out in the Stillwater area, you might as well eat at half price- and at one of the legendary barbecue spots in the state- Bad Brad's. | |
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Let's Check the Markets! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We've had
requests to include Canola prices for your convenience here- and we will
be doing so on a regular basis. Current cash price for Canola is $9.70 per
bushel, while the 2011 New Crop contracts for Canola are now available are
$10.50 per bushel- delivered to local participating elevators that are
working with PCOM.
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: | |
God Bless! You can reach us at the following: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email: ron@oklahomafarmreport.com
phone: 405-473-6144
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