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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oklahoma's latest
farm and ranch news
Your Update from Ron
Hays of RON for Monday May 23, 2011 A
service of Producers Cooperative Oil Mill, Midwest Farm Shows and Oklahoma
Mineral Owners
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-- We Check 2011 Harvest Progress and Prospects with Wheat Commission
CEO Mike Schulte
-- Drought Busting Rains Arrive in Southwest Oklahoma- Will They Get
the 2011 COtton Crop Planted?
-- State Legislature Sticks A Fork in 2011 Session a Week Early-
Tyler Norvell Talks Turkey With Us About Session Results
-- Cattle on Feed Shows a Lot of Cattle in Those Pens- 7% More Than
May 1, 2010
-- Wheat Groups Join Hands With Ag Export Advocates To Push For
Continuation of Federal Ag Export Subsidies
-- Why is Animal Agriculture becoming the number one target for
Anti-Agriculture Campaigns?
-- From Last Week- Our Conversation with Senator Jim Inhofe
-- Check Your Pupalup Deal from Little Joe's Boots
-- 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 also excited to have as one of our sponsors for the daily email
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We Check 2011 Harvest Progress and Prospects with Wheat Commission CEO Mike Schulte ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Schulte,
CEO of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission, says harvest in Oklahoma in May is
not the norm- but the stressed hard red winter wheat crop has been two
weeks early for much of the spring. The rainfall of this week has halted
the progress of where harvesting has already started for the year. Despite
the early start to harvest this crop season, the test weights that have
already come in, have been good at an average of 60 to 61 pounds. Also,
the protein test results are holding strong- ranging from 11.8% to 12% in
elevators that have been pulling new crop samples and running protein
checks.
Schulte adfds that he hopes these cloudy days northern Oklahoma has been experiencing will be beneficial in helping the crop to continue to progress in these areas around Burlington and Cherokee, where the crop is not as far along as in other areas. It's too early to tell if this latest round of showers will really help wheat in the northern counties where it was received.. But these rainy days in southwestern Oklahoma have put harvest at a stand still currently. Over 5 inches in some areas around Frederick have caused farmers to take a break from harvest, probably until well into next week Finally, there are areas of the HRW belt that desperately needed rain- and got none. Mark Hodges with Plains Grains indicated to us in an email that "Please note the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandle, eastern Colorado and western Kansas missed- again." | |
Drought Busting Rains Arrive in Southwest Oklahoma- Will They Get the 2011 COtton Crop Planted? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I have a lot
of happy farmers in my office right now," said Jantz Bain, manager of the
Humphreys Cooperative near Altus in Jackson County.The reason they are happy is due to wide-spread rain falling throughout southwestern Oklahoma last night where a severe drought exists. "We received 1.7 inches of rain at the gin here last night," Bain said. "This rain is very important to us. Not only will it help cotton farmers plant cotton, but we have a lot of cotton already planted. We need the rain to get the crop up and get it growing." Big rains fell in Tillman County, one of the most severely
drought-blighted counties in southwestern Oklahoma. Between three and six
inches are reported by David Lingle, gin manager of the Tillman Producers
Cooperative southwest of Frederick. Dr. Randy Boman, director of the Oklahoma State University Southwest
Research and Extension Center south of Altus, reported, "We received two
inches of rain at my mother's house at Tipton and there is water running
out of the fields." Tipton is located in western Tillman
County. | |
State Legislature Sticks A Fork in 2011 Session a Week Early- Tyler Norvell Talks Turkey With Us About Session Results ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Republican
Lawmakers seemed to be all smiles as the Oklahoma legislative session came
to a close one week early. The State Senate and House will remain on call
at the option of the leadership of the two bodies in the coming week- but
if they don't show back up next week at all- the official end of the 2011
session, called the Sine Die- will click into place Friday afternoon, May
27th at 5 Pm Central time.
On Friday evening, we talked with the Vice President for Public Policy of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Tyler Norvell. He gave the legislature high marks- an "A" in fact, for their work on the budget, redrawing state and federal election district lines and enacting several measures that were high on the wish list of the general farm organization. Norvell was especially pleased with the outcome of the redrawing of Congressional and Legislative Districts this year- praising Dale DeWitt of Braman for making sure that rural seats were preserved as best as they could be with the continuing shift of population from rural areas to more suburban and urban locales. Norvell added his praise to the Senators who led the effort to draw the lines on that side of the Capitol- Clark Jolley and Bryce Marlett. | |
Cattle on Feed Shows a Lot of Cattle in Those Pens- 7% More Than May 1, 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Friday
afternoon, the latest Cattle on Feed numbers were released by the USDA-
and while the trade was looking for a significantly higher number of
cattle on feed this year versus May 1, 2010- the actual number was even
bigger. The cattle on feed report negative as well with 107% on feed,
placements at 110% and marketings at 97%. That larger than expected
placements number may weigh on the August contract. The August is already
at a $6.00 discount to the October, but it has been as wide as $8 in the
past.
OSU Extension Livestock Market Analyst Derrell Peel had anticipated a combination of cattle coming off drought stressed pastures along with Mexican feeder catlte import would hammer us with a bigger than expected placement number- and the end result- ten percent bigger placements than last April- qualifies for what Peel was thinking might end up being reality. As far as the actual numbers were concerned- Cattle and calves on feed
for slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of
1,000 or more head totaled 11.2 million head on May 1, 2011. The inventory
was 7 percent above May 1, 2010. | |
Wheat Groups Join Hands With Ag Export Advocates To Push For Continuation of Federal Ag Export Subsidies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ U.S. Wheat
Associates (USW) and the National Association of Wheat Growers joined more
than 120 other members of the Coalition to Promote U.S. Agricultural
Exports to urge the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture,
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies to
maintain funding for USDA export programs when it considers the fiscal
year 2012 Agriculture Appropriations bill on May 24.
In a May 18 letter to Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), who chairs the subcommittee, and Ranking Minority Member Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA), coalition members asked that the Market Access Program (MAP) be funded at no less than $200 million for FY 12, as authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill. MAP has been funded annually at this level since FY 06. The letter also called for the Foreign Market Development (FMD) program to be funded at no less than $34.5 million, as provided in the Farm Bill. "Without the MAP and FMD programs, USW would not be able to continue our work overseas," USW President Alan Tracy said. "Wheat farmers in the United States rely on the export market for nearly half of their crop each year, so wheat exports are critically important - not just to those producers and the prices they receive, but also to the communities that they serve and the prosperity of our rural towns across the country." Click here to read more on the issue of funding for the MAP and FMD programs | |
Why is Animal Agriculture becoming the number one target for Anti-Agriculture Campaigns? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In recent
years, the Animal Agriculture Alliance has adjusted the groups they focus
on because of the changes in the animal rights movement. Kay
Johnson-Smith, the Executive Director for the Animal Agriculture Alliance,
says the reason for this change in focus is because of a more united front
among animal activist groups. More and more animal rights organizations are making a transition from research animals to farm animals and they are starting to make animal agriculture their number one target for campaigns, says Johnson-Smith. Many of these animal rights organizations are also beginning to strategize together to make their agendas known to the general public. One of the ways these animal rights activists are strategizing is by using undercover employees to become hired by farms and shoot video. This transition allows them to often times mischaracterize what people would typically see on farms. Click on the LINK below to hear the rest of the story on these anti-agriculture campaigns from Kay Johnson-Smith and the Animal Agriculture Alliance. Click here to listen to the reasons why animal agriculture is being targeted | |
From Last Week- Our Conversation with Senator Jim Inhofe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oklahoma
Republican Senator Jim Inhofe says that the GOP will complete the job
started last November in the fall of 2012 when Republicans will become the
majority party in the US Senate. He fully expects to regain the
Chairmanship of the Environment and Public Works Committee- and he says
that between now and then, it's important to slow the over-regulation
being promoted by the Obama Administration as much as is possible.
Senator Inhofe contends that the over regulation by President Obama and his EPA and Fish and Wildlife Service is really an economic problem as well, since the over-regulation depresses economic activity of the American economy- costing billions of dollars of GDP. | |
Check Your Pupalup Deal from Little Joe's Boots ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The latest
Pupalup deal is for $50 worth of stuff of your choice for just $25 at
Little Joe's Boots in Stockyards City in OKC. Nothing is average at Little
Joe's Boots, long considered Oklahoma's finest western outfitter. Located
in the historic OKC Stockyards area, Little Joe's has the state's largest
knife department, with brands like Case, Spyderco and BenchMade. Filson
Outerwear, Mountain Khaki's, Keen footwear and Schaeffer Western wear are
other great brands you will find in Little Joe's. Make no mistake,
however; boots still reign supreme. Little Joe's carries Rios of Mercedes,
Olathe, Anderson Bean, Whites and other fine boot brands in all the colors
and styles you could imagine. Click
here to go check out this half price Pupalup deal that is now
available.
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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 $11.47
per bushel- as of the close of trade on Thursday, while the 2011 New Crop
contracts for Canola are now available are $11.47 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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