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invite you to listen to us on great radio stations
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weekdays- if you missed this morning's Farm News - or
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Let's Check the
Markets!
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.
Okla
Cash Grain:
Daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported
by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Current
cash price for Canola is $11.78 per bushel-
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$12.01 per bushel- delivered to local
participating elevators that are working with PCOM.
Futures
Wrap:
Our
Daily Market Wrapup from the Radio
Oklahoma Network with Ed Richards and Tom Leffler-
analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous Day.
KCBT
Recap:
Previous Day's Wheat Market Recap- Two
Pager from the Kansas City Board of Trade looks at all
three U.S. Wheat Futures Exchanges with extra info on
Hard Red Winter Wheat and the why of that day's
market.
Feeder
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Feeder & Stocker
Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
Slaughter
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Slaughter Cattle
Summary- as prepared by the USDA.
TCFA
Feedlot Recap:
Finally,
here is the Daily Volume and Price Summary from
the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.
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Oklahoma's
Latest Farm and Ranch News
Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Wednesday, November
16, 2011
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
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Featured
Story:
Oklahoma
Produced Beef Sticks Headed for Oklahoma Troops in
Afghanistan
George
Huggins says the Lord told him to figure out a way
to feed the troops. And because he followed
through on his dream- troops overseas that are a
part of the Oklahoma National Guard- including the
45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team which is serving
in Afghanistan- will be receiving regular
shipments of Beef Sticks produced by the Beef 4
Battle Coalition. Huggins, a retired engineer from
Blanchard, talked with us at the news conference
on Tuesday where all of the coalitions members
gathered along with officials from the Oklahoma
National Guard. A symbolic first box of Beef
Sticks was presented to Myles Deering, Adjutant
General of the Oklahoma Army and Air National
Guard. Huggins says it's his hope that the first
shipments will reach the troops by Thanksgiving.
Click on the LINK below to hear from
George Huggins as well as from Thad Doye, who is
directing the project for the Oklahoma FARM
Foundation and the Oklahoma Farm
Bureau.
The Beef for Battle Coalition is a
group of entities that share in a cooperative
effort to donate beef sticks to the Oklahoma
Military Department for shipment to soldiers in
active duty.
With its convenient packaging
and nutritional values high in Zinc, Iron and
Protein, beef sticks give soldiers an extra boost
as they defend America on the battlefield.
Coalition members include the Oklahoma
FARM (Farming and Ranching Matters) Foundation,
George Huggins, Chickasha Meat Co., Schwab and
Co., and Oklahoma State University's Robert M.
Kerr Food & Ag Products Center
(FAPC).
Click here to listen to our
conversation with Huggins and Doye on Beef for
Battle
Coalition. |
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Conference
Report on Ag Appropriations to Be Voted on This
Week- Includes Restriction on GIPSA
Rule
The
FY2012 Agricultural Appropriations Bill has now
gone through the Conference process- and is coming
back to the House and Senate for a final vote-
along with two other Agency budgets and a
Continuing Resolution that will keep the Federal
Government open until December 16.
Total
dollar amount that has been allocated for the Ag
Approps bill is $136.6 billion.
Notably,
the restrictions on USDA having money to implement
and work further on the GIPSA marketing rule for
livestock is a part of the Conference Report.
According to the overview provided by the Chairman
of the Appropriation's Committee Hal Rogers of
Kentucky- "The bill places restrictions on the
implementation of a Grain Inspection and Packers
and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) proposed
rule that would have allowed harmful government
interference in the private market for livestock
and poultry." This is similar to the language from
the House version of the Ag Appropriations bill-
the Senate did not specifically address the issue
so the House restriction prevails.
Click here for more on the "mini-bus"
conference report that will likely be voted on
Thursday by the House- and with the CR included in
the package- the Senate will be pressured to vote
on the measure this week as well. The
current CR expires Friday.
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Water
Quality Monitoring in Grand Lake Watershed Shows
Success of Conservation
Practices
New
monitoring data from the Grand Lake Watershed
shows that the efforts undertaken by farmers,
ranchers and other landowners to address non-point
source pollution through best management practices
are starting to bear fruit according to Joe
Parker, President of the Oklahoma Association of
Conservation Districts
(OACD). Parker said this initial
success shows once again that voluntary,
locally-led conservation works.
"We are
proud to see that the work that has been done on
the ground is resulting in this initial reduction
in nutrients and bacteria in the Grand Lake
Watershed," Parker said. "The fact that this is
being done, not through regulations, but through
voluntary, locally-led, cooperative efforts
designed to address the problem while protecting
private property rights shows we can work together
to address this critical issue."
According
to Parker, four years ago the Oklahoma
Conservation Commission in cooperation with local
conservation districts and the USDA Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) began
working on an Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) Clean Water Act Section 319 (319) program in
the Honey Creek sub-watershed of the Grand Lake
Watershed.
Click here for more from OACD on the
Grand Lake
Watershed. |
Department
of Labor Proposes to Stop Youth 16 or Younger from
Working With Livestock- How to Offer
Comments
Time is running
out to comment on proposed regulations from the
Department of Labor that would make it illegal for
youth 16 years and under to do much of anything on
a farm or ranch. Critics of the fifty plus page
rule change say if approved, the regulations would
hamstring family and multi-generational farmers,
preventing them from teaching their kids valuable
skills, and from supplying much needed labor on
farms and ranches across the U.S.
One of
the New Media warriors that we follow on Twitter,
Jeff Fowle from California wrote of the proposal
in his blog- "That means my son can't help his
grandparents move cattle from field to field on
horseback. It is illegal for my son to help his
grandparents change water. It is illegal for my
son to drive the feed truck for his grandfather in
the winter." Jeff adds "It is obvious that the
"brilliant" folks we have in DC have absolutely no
idea what impact this will have on
multi-generational and extended family farms and
ranches."
For today's Beef Buzz- we have
pulled out the comments from our conversation with
Jerry Moran from last week when we caught up with
him in Kansas City- he's urging folks to take a
closer look and offer comments before the December
first deadline.
Click here for our story that
includes the comments from Senator Moran, a link
to the Jeff Fowle blog with his take on the
Department of Labor power grab and a link to the
Federal Government website where you can read the
rule for yourself- and submit comments
online. Large numbers of comments from the
country will give the nameless and faceless
officials at the Department of Labor pause- and if
you send your comments to your elected officials
in Washington- that could light a fire under them
on this subject as well.
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Cropland
Values Reach Record Highs According to Kansas City
Federal Ag Credit Survey
Third
quarter Survey of Tenth District Agricultural
Credit Conditions have been released.
Tenth
District farmland values surged to a record high
in the third quarter, with stronger gains in the
northern Plains, according to the Federal Reserve
Bank of Kansas City's quarterly Survey of
Agricultural Credit Conditions.
District
cropland values rose more than 25 percent over the
past year, and ranchland values increased 14
percent. A quarter of the 243 survey respondents
felt that cropland values had yet to
peak.
Nebraska posted the strongest gains
with irrigated and nonirrigated land values rising
approximately 40 percent above year-ago levels.
Record gains in the northern Plains were fueled by
another bumper crop this harvest season that
raised farm income expectations despite the recent
slide in crop prices.
Click here for a link to a copy of
the complete survey. |
U.S.
Not in a Land Bubble At This Point says Vice
President at Rabobank
International
The
U.S. agriculture land prices have been increasing
steadily over the past five to ten years, which
has left farmers and ranchers wondering if these
high land values are really sustainable. We talked
with Sterling Liddell, Vice President for the Food
and Agribusiness Research and Advisory department
of Rabobank International, recently at the
National Association of Farm Broadcasters annual
convention in Kansas City about the possibility of
a land value bubble and China's impact on U.S.
agriculture.
When it comes right down to
it, Liddell simply states that we are not in a
land value bubble, which Rabobank defines as a
commodity or an asset that is not supported by its
fundamental value. One reason for this Liddell
explains is because of the high commodity prices
and low interest rates, which he says
fundamentally suppport the value of the land where
it is.
Another reason Liddell says they are
hesitant to call this a land bubble is that the
land value has been strengthened and is very
strong in areas that have experienced the highest
commodity prices, such as the Midwest, North and
South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. Corn is very
prevalent in these areas and has been leading the
commodity charts over the past five years says
Liddell.
Click here to listen to our
conversation with Sterling Liddell on land values
and China's impact. |
USDA
Designates 8 Counties in Oklahoma as Primary
Natural Disaster Areas
The
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has
designated eight counties in Oklahoma as natural
disaster areas due to losses caused by drought and
excessive heat that began May 1, 2011, and
continues.
Those counties are: Craig,
Mayes, Ottawa, Tulsa, Delaware, Nowata, Rogers,
Washington.
"Assistance at this point and
time is critically important for producers in
Oklahoma, especially in helping them keep their
farmland healthy for the remainder of the year,"
said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "President
Obama and I realize that during this time of
disaster, federal assistance will be needed until
conditions improve as farmers strive to recover
their losses."
Farmers and ranchers in the
following counties in Oklahoma also qualify for
natural disaster assistance because their counties
are contiguous: Adair, Creek, Osage, Wagoner,
Cherokee, Okmulgee, Pawnee.
Click here for more specific
information on assistance that is
provided. |
Coming
Thursday- Unwanted Pesticide Collection and on
Friday- Cattle on Feed Numbers
Oklahoma
homeowners, agricultural producers, greenhouse and
nursery operators, certified applicators and
pesticide dealers can get rid of unwanted
pesticides at the second of two locations planned
for this week.
Yesterday-
the Unwanted Pesticide Collection site was in Ada-
tomorrow- Thursday Nov. 17 the collection will be
happening at the Apache Farmers Co-op in the
Caddo County town of Apache. The collections will
take only pesticides; no other types of hazardous
waste such as oil, paint or antifreeze will be
accepted. All pesticides will be taken, no matter
the size. Collection time will be 8 AM until 1 PM.
Click here for the website that has
all the answers about this ongoing program
offered by OSU, the Oklahoma Department of
Agriculture in cooperation with the Oklahoma Grain
and Feed Association and the Oklahoma Agri
Retailers.
Then-
Friday afternoon will find the
USDA dishing up the latest Cattle on Feed
numbers. Allendale believes that we will
continue to have more cattle on feed this month
compared to one year ago.
Rich
Nelson with Allendale says that October
Placements are expected to be 3.9%
smaller than last year. He expects smaller
supplies of medium and heavy feeders to offset
continued calf liquidation in the South. Cattle
placed in October will be marketed from March to
August.
Allendale
anticipates a Marketing total 1.1%
lower than October of 2010. There was no
adjustment made due to days on the calendar this
month. We have adjusted our estimate to reflect
the discrepancy between USDA's COF marketing
number and actual steer and heifer slaughter over
the past eight months.
Total
Cattle on Feed as of November 1 will
be 2.9% larger than last year.
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