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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 $11.55 per bushel-
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$11.69 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
Friday, November
18, 2011
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Howdy
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured
Story:
Ag
Appropriations Done as Conference Report Clears
House and Senate- Farm Bill Deal May Be
Near
Congress
voted yesterday on a $136 billion 2012
agricultural spending bill(of which $19.8 billion
was discretionary spending) that includes language
blocking the U.S. Department of Agriculture from
implementing controversial reforms to livestock
and poultry marketing. The so-called GIPSA rule,
proposed last year by the USDA's Grain Inspection
Packers and Stockyard's Administration, would have
wreaked havoc on the U.S. cattle industry causing
livestock producers to lose an estimated $169
million, according to National Cattlemen's Beef
Association (NCBA) Vice President of Government
Affairs Colin Woodall. He said Congress barred
USDA from conducting any further work this year on
sections of the rule not yet finalized.
The
ag spending measure was a part of the so called
"mini-bus" deal assembled by lawmakers that takes
care of three of the major appropriations bills-
and included a Continuing Resolution to fund other
areas of the Federal Government from today through
mid December.
NCBA
liked the GIPSA Shutdown- click here for more with Woodall
on that- and so does the National Chicken Council-
click here for their statement
released on Thursday evening. However, Roger
Johnson of the National Farmers Union hates it-
as he complains of language derailing GIPSA and
stopping implementation of
Dodd-Frank.
THE
CR contained with the appropriations bills pushed
the overall package through quickly- and will
probably mean a quick okay by the White House as
well.
MEANWHILE-
Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas and Michigan
Senator Debbie Stabenow are apparently ready to
proclaim a Farm Bill deal that will be passed on
to the Super Committee. Our colleague
Stewart Doan with Agri-Pulse has an excellent
audio overview of what has transpired in the last
24 hours or so- click here to jump to their site
and take a listen.
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A
Few Eastern Oklahoma Counties Finally are "Just
Dry" as Drought Continues to
Retreat
Oklahoma
finally has a small patch of yellow on the drought
monitor map that shows a break in drought
conditions. For the first time since late June, a
significant portion of the state is completely out
of drought (D1-D4) according to the latest U.S.
Drought Monitor. Several counties in the
northeast/east central part of the state centered
on Adair County are now labeled as D0 or
"abnormally dry."
Gary
McManus is the Associate State Climatologist for
the Oklahoma Climatological Survey and he reports
that the D3 (extreme) drought area has also shrunk
and now much of central Oklahoma is categorized in
severe drought. It may seem odd to cheer for
severe drought, but it's better than extreme or
exceptional. Parts of the state are continue in
very bad shape, however. The western half of the
state is still dominated by dry conditions, as
well as southeastern Oklahoma. McManus tells us
that he saw many shrunken or dry stock ponds in
both areas in my travels. The key to the
improvement has been the abundant rainfall we've
had from south central through northeastern
Oklahoma since the beginning of October.
We
have posted the latest Drought Monitor update on
our website- click here to go there and take a
look at the map- and get a little more insight
from McManus to boot. . |
Oklahoma
Beef Council Extends Checkoff Dollars by Investing
in International Markets
The
Oklahoma Beef Council board of directors has been
working hard over the past year to make some
significant changes to program budgets. While
deciding to cut the in-state program budgets by
50% and redirect those funds into the
international marketplace, Heather Buckmaster,
Executive Director of the Oklahoma Beef Council,
says the board looked at spending their beef
checkoff dollars as effectively and efficiently as
possible.
October started the new fiscal
year for the Oklahoma Beef Council and Buckmaster
says the September results show beef exports are
up 35.9% in value compared to the same month in
2010.
But with today's beef checkoff
dollar having only about 50% of the buying power
is did in 1985, the Oklahoma Beef Council board
felt the need to extend these dollars as much as
possible. Buckmaster says the board decided to
invest the Oklahoma beef checkoff dollars in the
U.S. Meat Export Federation, which will allow for
these checkoff dollars to be matched three and
four times by government and industry
resources.
You can hear more from
Heather Buckmaster this Saturday, November
19 on News9, KWTV during our In the
Field segment at 6:40 a.m. This is a part of their
two hour morning news block seen in central and
western Oklahoma.
Or you can click here to listen to
our complete conversation with Heather where we go
more in depth about this redirection of Beef
Checkoff funds from Oklahoma.
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Senator
Jim Inhofe Hails EPA Extension for Farmers to
Comply with Spill Prevention Rules
A
senior GOP senator yesterday declared victory in a
bipartisan push to give farmers extra time to
comply with U.S. EPA oil-spill prevention rules
after the agency agreed to extend its deadline
from this month until 2013.
EPA's Spill
Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC)
regulations require farms, many of which store oil
and other fuel on-site, to craft plans for
averting and stopping potential spills. More than
30 senators from both parties earlier this year
pressed EPA to give farmers more time to get up to
speed with the details of a rule that can call for
them to consult with licensed engineers (E&E
Daily, June 28).
The Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee's top
Republican, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, pointed to
EPA's agreement to an SPCC compliance extension
until 2013 in a statement that credited bipartisan
pushback in the upper chamber with changing the
agency's course. Inhofe also suggested that more
cross-aisle accord could succeed in budging other,
more high-profile EPA regulatory
efforts.
Click here for more on SPCC
regulations from Senator
Inhofe. |
Talking
Wheat and Cattle Markets- Who Else But Kim
Anderson and Derrell
Peel!
Limited
demand in the international marketplace for hard
red winter wheat may force Kansas City wheat
futures to test support at $6.70 a bushel in the
Kansas City March 2012 contract. That test may
happen as early as today in the grain markets- and
if not today- early next week. That's the opinion
of Extension Livestock Market Economist Dr. Kim
Anderson, who adds that Fund traders have been
backing out of the wheat markets in recent weeks-
and that has contributed to the softness in this
market as we approach the end of the calendar
year.
Kim's
comments come to us courtesy of Austin Moore and
the SUNUP crew- you can hear that conversation and
see the ENTIRE SUNUP program rundown for tomorrow
morning on OETA- just CLICK RIGHT HERE.
Meanwhile,
we were on campus in Stillwater ourselves
yesterday- and caught up with Derrell Peel in Ag
Hall- we'll have him as our guest the next few
Beef Buzzes- today- we talk about the uncharted
waters we find ourselves in for both whole boxed
beef prices as well as cash cattle trade for
animals headed to the packing plants. Click here for our Friday Beef Buzz
and listen to Derrell's take on these two
parts of our beef market puzzle.
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DuPont
Reports Strong 2011 North America Harvest Results
DuPont
announced strong seed product performance results
for the 2011 North America harvest. Farmers
planting seed from DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred
experienced another year of consistent corn and
soybean yields across North America.
"Pioneer
customers are reporting solid harvest performance
across North America this harvest," said Paul E.
Schickler, president, Pioneer Hi-Bred. "Those
results are strong testimony to our 'right
product, right acre' approach to the marketplace.
"In addition to providing seed products
with exceptional genetics and agronomics, we are
uniquely positioned to deliver trusted advice and
important services to our customers. Our
understanding of their operations enables us to
help them manage the growing complexity of farming
while increasing their productivity and
profitability, Schickler added. "We have to
innovate every year to win the right to serve our
customers. Early 2012 sales progress tells us our
momentum continues to be strong."
Click here for more from
DuPont, specifically on corn and
soybean products.
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Myths
Promoted at First "End Factory-Farming"
Conference
About
300 activists representing the animal rights,
environmental, and public health movements
converged in Arlington, VA on October 27-29 for
the first-ever "Conference to End Factory
Farming". More than 25 speakers attempted to gain
the attention of decision makers in Washington,
D.C. with sessions titled "The Hidden Costs of
Factory Farming", "Inside the Industry", and
"Building Coalitions for Change". The goal of the
event? To create synergy between competing
activist campaigns and frame their extreme goal of
eliminating today's animal agriculture industry as
a mainstream effort.
The event was
co-hosted by Farm Sanctuary and the ASPCA and
sponsored by a wide variety of extremist
organizations and companies including the Humane
Society of the United States, Mercy for Animals,
Compassion Over Killing, A Well Fed World,
Compassion in World Farming, E: The Environmental
Magazine, Discovery's TreeHugger, and Whole Foods
Market.
Many speakers revealed just how out
of step with American values during their
presentations. For example, Holly Cheever, of
HSUS' Veterinary Medical Association Leadership
Council said that "slaughterhouses are a kind of
Auschwitz". This equating of human suffering with
agricultural practices not only diminishes the
horrors inflicted on the victims of the Holocaust,
but is a sentiment commonly expressed by PETA and
other extremist groups.
Click here for more information and
quotes from this
conference. |
Get
a Taste of Traditional Italian Cuisine at
Giuseppe's Italian Dining in Marlow
The
Legendary Restaurants of Oklahoma continues this
week with Giuseppe's Italian Dining of Marlow,
Okla. Originally known as a grocery store and for
selling homemade pizzas, Giuseppe's Italian Dining
quickly came to light simply because of the demand
for their delicious Italian dishes. What started
as a joke between friends, Giuseppe's Italian
Dining opened in 1996 and has been serving up
traditional cuisine ever since. With at least
one special every week that is not listed on the
menu, anyone that visits Giuseppe's is in for a
surprise. Also, Harold Wellier, owner of
Giuseppe's, adds that the specials and menu
tends to vary based on what ingredients the chef
have on hand and what they have in mind for the
week.
Click here to purchase your $50
voucher to Giuseppe's for only 25!
Our
very own Karolyn Bolay also sat down
with Wellier and discussed the unique menu,
environment and story of Giuseppe's Italian
Dining.
Click here to listen to their
conversation and for more on
Giuseppe's. |
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